Professor Plant Needs Your Help!

Happy New Year Bulb Buddies!  It’s February already which means spring will be here before we know it.  Some of you may have noticed shoots from your bulbs by now – if so then you’re well on your way to some beautiful blossoms.  Don’t worry if you can’t see any shoots yet, some bulbs take a little longer before they’re ready to sprout, especially if it’s cold outside.

We all know this spring will be little different from other years.  I’m sure many of you Bulb Buddies will be missing your classroom and playground if you’re learning at home.  Perhaps some of you are also thinking of your Baby Bulbs back in school without anybody to look after them – don’t worry, your bulbs will be safe and sound, especially if they’re outside. 

Even though we’re not all in school at the moment Professor Plant still needs your help to collect the weather data and my goodness what a lot of data there is to collect!  It’s very important that we keep a note of rainfall and temperature as our bulbs grow because this will help us to understand our results better in the spring.  I’ve thought of a few ways you might be able to keep your Baby Bulbs happy and help Professor Plant to carry on collecting weather and flower data.  I’d be over the moon if you could help by doing one of these things if you’re able to:

Professor Plant’s ideas for continuing to collect data at home:

• Could Bulb Buddies/parents safely collect their pots and take them home to monitor their growth?
• Could a Bulb Buddy who lives close to school safely collect the weather equipment and take weather records at home?
• Would a teacher still attending school be happy to collect weather and flower data with any Bulb Buddies still in attendance?  Data collected could be submitted to the website or collected for the original class to submit on their return to school.
• Is there someone with access to the school who might be willing to monitor the plants?

What else can Bulb Buddies do from home?

•  It’s very important to collect weather data for our bulbs –perhaps you could keep a weather diary for Professor Plant?
• The MET office Weather Observation Website will have temperature and rainfall data for your area, perhaps you could make a note of these every day?
• Bulb Buddies and parents learning at home should keep checking the Spring Bulbs website for learning resources and activities to try at home
• Why not share your hard work on Twitter?  My handle is @Professor_Plant

Thank you all so much for your help Bulb Buddies, you are all doing fantastic work with this investigation and I definitely couldn’t do this without you!  I’d also like to give a special thank you to the teachers and parents too – we’re so grateful for your help overcoming everything this term throws at us.

Happy gardening everyone!

Professor Plant.