Day 1

Date: 29 April 2013
Day: Monday
State: Seed

Activities

1. Pouring of soil
2. Potting of plant
3. Digging of soil
4. Watering of seeds
5.Adding fertiliser

Before the planting:

Pouring the soil in:

Adding Fertiliser: 

Digging the soil:

Watering seeds: 

Setups

We decided to experiment with a few different setups to find out what conditions the Daikon Raddish plant grows best in. 

Setups:

1.  Potted w/o earthworms  

• 2 with fertiliser 
• 3 without fertiliser

2.  Planted on ground w/ earthworms 

• 2 without fertiliser

*Ground Setup 1 - Right 

*Ground Setup 2 - Left 

Roles and Duties

We decided to split the duties among all the 8 of us for the planting on a weekly basis. The following is what we have come up with:

Roles

1) Rupa - Group Leader

• Monitors Group Activities 
• Helps group members
• Posts updates and manages Whatsapp group 

2) Alex - Farmer

• Does farming work 
• Example: Digging the soil, adding fertilisers 

3) Melvin - Photographer (Mon)

• Takes pictures of plant every Monday for blog post
• Takes pictures of the person watering the plant
• Passes the pictures to Zoerin on the same day for blog post

4) Fatin - Photographer (Thur)

• Takes pictures of plant every Thursday for blog post
• Takes pictures of the person watering the plant
• Passes the pictures to Charlyn on the same day for blog post

5) Zoerin - Blog Poster (Mon)

• Posts updates on plant every Monday on blog

6) Charlyn - Blog Poster (Thur)

• Posts updates on plant every Thursday on blog

7) Tharsiny - Recorder (Mon)

• Records what is done every Monday on our planner

8) Liyana - Recorder (Thur)

• Records what is done every Thursday on our planner

Duties

Watering the plant: 

1) Mon - Melvin and Zoerin

2) Tue - Alex and Liyana

3) Wed - Tharsiny

4) Thur - Fatin and Charlyn 

5) Fri - Rupa 

Items We Bought

Last Saturday, we went to Far East Flora @ Thompson to purchase things needed for planting.

Items we bought:

• Campana pot - outer 43cm, inner 37cm
• Tref Go Bio4 organic soil (10 litres) x2
• Tref Go Bio4 organic soil (5 litres)
• Poultry manure (fertiliser) 

We bought our Daikon Radish seeds from "The Arrival Shop" at Gardens by the Bay.

Getting Started

Just to get started, we have done the following: 

1) We have a planner 

• to help us know which day it is that the plant has been growing from
• to record important information about plant 
• to remind us to do certain things on particular days
• where Tharsiny (Mon) and Liyana (Thur) would be recording the information

2) We would be posting blog posts

• every Monday and Thursday to show updates on plants
• to show activities done for the week 
• to show pictures of us planting 
• to remind certain events to group members
• to record important information on group work 
• which Zoerin (Mon) and Charlyn (Thur) would be posting

3) We have created a Whatsapp group 

• to post important updates 
• to remind each other about their duties 
• as it is very convenient as all of us have whatsapp 
• as it is very easy to chat and update each other 
• to share pictures of the plant daily 
• which Rupa would be managing

Seed Information

Type of Seed: South Korean Daikon Radish

Conditions:

• planted in 30cm-deep pot
• moist soil
• full sunlight; no shade 

Harvesting time: 1 - 2 months
Germination period: 3 days

We bought our seeds from "The Arrival Shop" at Gardens by the Bay.