Our special order of seeds from Heirloom Seeds arrived in today's mail. We're quite excited. Mom said she will take a picture for us of all the packets tomorrow.
To keep our experiment as scientific as possible we decided to create a spreadsheet on Excel. We have the name of the corn, the days until harvest, how much the seeds cost, how far they are to be planted, and more. We even plan on counting how many seeds come in each packet!
One of the interesting things we read on the planting instructions on some of the seed packets is that they recommend planting the seeds in circles -- they call the circles "hills." This sounds very familiar! We learned about how the Pequot Indians used to plant their corn when we visited the Pequot Museum last year. We had also learned that the Pequot's planted beans and squash with their corn to discourage weeds, so we might include doing this with the corn that suggests planting it in circles.
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