Why+Have+Your+Tulips+Not+Emerged+Yet?

Date: 1/17/08 Our third grade scientists would like to know why your tulips have not emerged yet because 6 other test sites have tulips coming up and your location has the warmest recorded temperatures. Is it too hot, too dry or too wet or the quality of your soil? Does the ocean impact your study? We'd love to hear back from you! Mrs. Ellickson's Eager scientists


 * Date ||  || Student Thoughts ||
 * 01/23/08 ||  || Too much water. - Breck ||
 * ||  || Because we planted them later. - Will ||
 * ||  || We planted them later than everyone else. - Jessie ||
 * ||  || It was too hot and dry. - Millie ||
 * ||  || I think it has to do with the fact that we had to put the tulips in the refrigerator until January to simulate winter. So if the temperatures were warm enough other places their tulips would have started growing before ours were even in the soil. Ours were only in the ground 12 days before they emerged. They may also have emerged faster if we had more rain. We didn't get any rain until the 20th. - Ms. Swoch ||
 * ||  || We planted them in January and everyone else planted them in November. - Sylvia ||
 * ||  || No, [the ocean does not impact our study] because we are not near the ocean. - Troy ||
 * ||  || Yes, [the ocean does impact our study] because it rains more often near the ocean. - Tyler ||
 * ||  || No, [the ocean does not impact our study] because salt does not get into the garden. - Mitchell ||
 * ||  || No, [the ocean does not impact our study] because salt does not get into the garden. - Mitchell ||