Poor Dirt Quality

Since we've last updated this blog, we've begun to realize that our plants are not growing as fast as we would like. It has been over a week and a half and all three plants have yet to break the surface of the soil. Because of this, we reevaluated the quality of the soil that the plants were grown in. We quickly realized that we should have used potting soil instead of soil from the natural earth, which contains an unusually high quantity of rocks and sticks. We believe that this is the reason that our plants are not growing as well as we expected. We plan to remove all the soil and newspaper shreddings and start from stage one. We will replace the layer of newspaper and replace the dirt with potting soil, which contains more nutrients. Afterwards, we plan to replant the three types of seeds. We hope that this will help the plants grow faster. Although we are disappointed with the outcome, we still have high hopes that adjusting our plan slightly will help the plants develop at the pace we originally predicted.