Update

Today I just cut and planted random plants into a very shallow pot. I put three Cactus, (I don't know the plural word) some type of grass, moss, and a flower thing.

I also got birthday presents for a friend.

Well just an update....

stuff

I won't be blogging about worms, but just random stuff. I'm in a botany block at school, and it is my favorite block so far. Today we learned the parts of the plants. I know it sounds babyish but it's really not. Like all the little nodes and stuff. A node is basically a joint but it doesn't really move. We also learned about different types of buds. Like the terminal bud. This is what makes the plant grow (well, every part helps but this powers the plant on). The terminal bud is at the top of the plant and sort of pushes.

The leaves are not just for looks. They are like solar panels except they are on plants. And green. The plant has leaves because (as you probably know) it needs the suns energy.

This doesn't have everything we learned about but it is still good, I think. (I mean the picture)

We also learned about root hairs but their not on there.
(I did not draw this.)

Bye!

The worms have relocated into a planter-box. This is my last post. (I think....) It turns out that there were a lot of worms in the terrarium. My mom and I were very surprised. I think the worms are happy and my mom is happy too. Now she doesn't have to tell me to give the worms water and stuff like that. :) well I guess I have to go :'(

Bye!

P.S.
I have relocated the worms into the planter-box because I have re-goind school.

okay.....
Bye!

What's happening now

Ashlie has gotten bigger. ,lllllllllllllllmmmmmmmk (sorry that's what my cat Charlote has to say apparently) Rover looks like he got smaller but I don't think he did. I think Sweety has gotten bigger too.

Because Ashlie is a black widow spider I can't put more kitchen-waste in side the worms habitat so my mom has to do it. Ashlie's web is attached to the lid so she is a little-bit scared.

I haven't seen any worms lately, but I think they're still there.

Mosquito-hawk

I figured out that the mosquito-hawk is actually called the crane-fly.
(Just in case you we're wondering.)

A month later...

I added Maynard, the pitcher plant. It's a bug eating plant, but you can't really see it eat the bugs because they just get stuck in there. The gnats are starting to die down, but we still have gnats all over the house. I could sit there all day smashing gnats.





The kitchen waste layer is completely gone now. I did add more kitchen waste but it's all buried in the back in a pile rather than a long layer.

The sweet potato plant has grown so much bigger. The leaves are all the way across the terrarium now and roots are growing out of the stems. The leaves are coming up through the lid that my dad made and pushing up the plastic wrap that we put there to keep the moisture there. The sweet potato's roots are all over the place -- out of the stems, in the gravel, halfway across the terrarium at the bottom -- they're everywhere.

But we haven't been seeing very many worms, only one or two.

Yuck! I just saw a huge mosquito hawk in the habitat. And I noticed a couple of days ago that a black widow spider lives in there too. I don't know what to do about it. Oh well, it's also bug-eating, like Maynard. I'll call it Ashlie. I named the mosquito hawk Rover.

What's happening

I saw another fat juicy worm this morning.

There are way too many gnats in there.

Me and my Mom are considering splitting the cost of a bug eating plant to plant in there. We saw it at Trader Joe's. It's called a Pitcher Plant.