Do Greenhouses Improve Plant Growth

Grow plants from seed in greenhouses in different environment to see how plant growth changes.
Abigail Geldreich Madilynn Geldreich
Grade 6

Hypothesis

Our hypothesis is that plant can grow in greenhouses as well as growing outside. We also beleve that artifical lights are better because you can control the light. 

Research

Greenhouses are buildings used tro grow plants that are made of glass allowing light in and they keep humidity and warmth in.  Advantages is that you can control the enviorment where outside you cant.  Some disadvantages are that they cost more money for power/electricity.  Another disadvantage is if the environment is not controlled and the inside gets too hot/humid the plants can get mold and die.  

Variables

Controlled variables: 

- time - planted all seeds jan 25 2025

- time - controls the daly time composd to light 

- temperature - 20 degrees celsius 

- water - amount of water

- one tip of seed, purple bean 

Manipulated variabes:

-Plant location in or out of greenhouse

-type of light artificial light and natural light 

Responding variable: 

- amont of growth 

 

 

Procedure

We are growing bean haricot seeds in diffrent enviroments. We poted 16 beens placing 4 in each enviroment.  

  • 4 pots open air in natural light
  • 4 pots in greenhouse natural light
  • 4 pots open air artificial light
  • 4 pots in greenhouse artificial light

We are using a mister to water all plant equley 

We are going to take observations and pictures everyday.

Observations

  • Dayly nots on visual apperants 
  • How damp the soil was
  • growth including hight of stems,number of branches,size of leafs.
  • observed root growth.

Analysis

The recorded hites and sizes are in ma spred sheet. 

Conclusion

Based on our experiment greenhouses do improve plant growth. The greenhouse samples grew better than the non greenhouse samples. The non greenhouse ones did not grow due to the samples being too dry.  Artificil light was more consistant than the natural light allowing for earlier and more consistant growth.  

Application

Greenhouses can be used enywhere in the world even if there is por farming or it is cold. It could alow for more local food sorcing.

Sources Of Error

https://www.backyardgardenlover.com/how-does-a-greenhouse-work/

Citations

We got a photo of https://www.backyardgardenlover.com/how-does-a-greenhouse-work/ and that is the only information we got of the internet.

Acknowledgement

we thank everyone who helped us with this. A big thank you to my dad and miss. Caddel thank you for helping us out with our project.