We can bee friendlier to the nature

As history has shown Germans are experts in building a wall! ;-) In order to protect our pumpkins against "curious hunters" we decided to build a wall. In the last weeks several pumpkins has been stolen. So we had 2 alternatives: camping in a tent night by night in the meadow to observe our 'babies' or building a wall to protect our tasty vegetable.
Anton & Leo are preparing the ground for the foundation of the wall.

In our project we will compare the measured growth of the pumpkins and apples.

We picked out an apple branch, that we will follow during the year.
We will look, how the branch grows up and how it changes during the seasons.





We measured the left pumpkins which has not been stolen yet.



Harvesting pumpkins is hard work!



You can see the measurements of the pumpkins in the grid. The biggest pumpkin so far achieved 7 kilos!

Pumpkin measurements summer 2017
Mass	Height
6,6 kg	23 cm
5,58 kg	22 cm
0,450 kg	13 cm
0,350 kg	12 cm
3,8 kg	21 cm
6,8 kg	26 cm
6,6 kg	23 cm
7 kg	27 cm
3 kg	19 cm
2,4 kg	16 cm
2,45 kg	16,5 cm
2,5 kg	17 cm
0,450 kg	13 cm

Although autumn was not yet on the calendar, autumn tasks are already being performed on the fields. That’s why on Tuesday 5 September 2017 also our school started a typical autumn task which is harvesting pumpkins.


Because of the drought the crops look smaller as they should. We took the harvest very seriously. Before the harvest we randomly selected pumpkins and measured their weight and diameter.


The reason we began these events was because of the cooperation in an interesting project Erasmus+. Cultivation of pumpkins for further processing is one of our projects.

With the help of the measurements we wanted to find out what's the average weight, average diameter,


quantity of the pumpkin seeds on the whole field/surface etc.
During the harvesting process we got a lot of ideas which we are going to use in the upcoming 2 years of the project. Work went very fast for students who took the measurements and for the ones who put away the network of stems.

We arranged the pumpkins in rows so that later the pumpkin harvester could harvest them.

Next, the special harvester picked up the pumpkins with it's reel, it crushed them and extracted the seeds.



After the harvest the seeds were stored and later they were put to dry.

measurement_results_2017 (xlsx, 19 KB)