Miracle-Gro Fertilizer Research Paper

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Most of the material that a person needs can be found around the house. The materials are sugar, coffee grounds, fertilizer, tap water, 12 plastic cups, soil, 1 tablespoon, I measuring cup, baking sheet, paper towels, ruler, phone/camera, pencil, 24 cucumber seeds, lined paper, sharpie and 2 long toothpicks. The sugar does not have to be a specific one (as long as it isn’t powdered) but the coffee grounds need to be used Folgers Medium Dark Coffee Grounds and the fertilizer needs to be Miracle-Gro Shake ‘n Feed. Anything else doesn’t need to be a specific brand. This experiment was developed by trying to make gardening more interesting by growing cucumbers faster with different items that can help other plant. By figuring out how to grow …show more content…

Label another three cups fertilizer 5. Label each one of the cups either trial one, two or three 6. Do the same as step two and three with coffee grounds and sugar 7. Put half a cup of soil in each of the cups. Pat down to even. 8. In all of the cups make a small hole half an inch deep. 9. Put 2 cucumber seeds in each cup in the hole 10. Put the soil back on the hole 11. Put a tablespoon of used coffee grounds in each of the cups labeled coffee grounds and stir with long toothpick careful not to go near the seeds 12. Do the same with the sugar in the cups labeled sugar and the fertilizer in the cups labeled fertilizer. Do not stir the fertilizer into the soil 13. In each cup put two tablespoons of water including the three cups labeled water 14. Take a picture of all twelve cups showing the labels 15. Put the cups on a baking sheet on a counter that gets light 16. Keep the thermostat on the same setting so the temperature near the plants is always around sixty degrees Fahrenheit to seventy degrees Fahrenheit 17. Every one to two days, depending on if the cups still have enough water, pour one tablespoon of water in each cup 18. Measure the plant every three days. Write down the data on a sheet of

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