~ Day 11 ~

Yes, I am aware that I am a day late in writing up these observations. Sorry.

Yesterday, I looked at my plants in Box A, and the sunflower nearest the sweet potato was totally destroyed - but perhaps, probably, by a bug. There were holes in the leaves - which allelochemicals probably did not cause - and it looked really dead.

However, it was also shorter in height and the stem was narrower in width than the other sunflowers - this was probably caused by the allelochemicals. :)

But seeing as the plant was almost dead, and maybe not totally by the allelochemicals' doing, I uprooted the sunflower and replaced it with one of my extra sunflowers that I grew in the small round pot. The new sunflower is smaller than the other sunflowers in Box A, which is strange because Box A contains a sweet potato, whereas the small round pot only contains sunflowers. But anyway, it is the sunflowers in the pot that have not been affected by allelochemicals yet, so I will just have to use one of them to keep my experiment fair.

Furthermore, I planted my carrots! As you will see in the following photos, the carrots are about the same distance from the sweet potato as the "new" sunflower [from previous paragraph] is. Yay!

Now I just need some cauliflower...

Anyway. Uhm, the photos are not showing up properly. So I'll just wait and get some advice on that. THERE WILL EVENTUALLY BE PHOTOS!


And I won't be here tomorrow - Friday - because I'm going camping. So I'll just take photos & observations today.


See you next Monday!