Throughout my experiment, there were a lot of unusual findings. First of all, the garden soil started acting a lot like clay, it hardened. The ph level was only neutral in one of the soils, the potting soil. This means that the seeds can only grow normally in the potting soil. Secondly, the moisture retention also had very interesting results. The clay, garden soil, and the potting soil all let out no water. They had a perfect retention. The sand moraine let out 3ml of water. This isn’t bad considering there was 36ml of water to start off with. The Pete Moss was the worst letting out 15ml of water. This was almost half the water I put into the pot. The seeds in the Pete Moss did not grow because firstly, the seed was poisoned due to the acidity in the soil, and secondly, it didn’t grow because it released too much water. The fertility was the longest project. It took about 1 month to complete. For the first approximately 10 days, the seeds did not grow; I had to keep watering them until finally, the pea seed in the potting soil sprouted. Then, shortly after, the pea seed in the clay sprouted also. Then, about five days later, the seeds in the potting soil sprouted also. The clay stopped growing at about 1.7 cm. The peas in the potting soil on the other hand grew to more than 15 cm.
Potting soil day 1 Potting soil day 13
Clay day 1 Clay day 13