The Requirments to grow Hardy Kiwis

The Kiwi plant is a long term project. They are called perennial plants because if they are cared for in the right way, they can live longer then 2 years and up to 50 years. A Hardy Kiwis size is determined by the trellis/support structure that helps it grow. Kiwi's prefer full sun to light shade. they can grow to zone 5 on the hardiness scale. The flowering period is late May/Early June which works well for our garden and the school semester. The soil must be well-drained because Hardy Kiwi's are prone to a disease called Root Rot. You can use seeds but it is better to use cuttings and grafts to start your plants.

The first growing season for Kiwi's is the hardest. It is recommended that you plant them in a 5 gallon bucket with many holes on the bucket to keep the soil well-drained.

It is recommended to apply compost to the hole when planting the kiwi's to give them the nutrients they need. I must plant the Kiwis 4-5 feet apart because these vines they can grow crazy if they are not cared for and pruned correctly. I can use a fence as a trellis or I can make one myself. Once you plant the Kiwi, you prune back the stem 2 buds to encourage development. After they begin to grow, you choose the largest as your main body of the vine. Using wire or a stake, you train the main body to climb up the fence. Once the vine has reached the height, you prune off the growing tip and when shoots begin to form from, you use them for the main branches of the plant.

Reading Reflection

This reading was very interesting and it helped build my view of our impact on the world. After reading that paper, I have come to notice our major need for oil as a daily necessity. This fixation must be destroyed as fast as we can before we see the world fall apart around us. The reading points out many places in our current government that can be fixed to better help the health of our country and its citizens.

The first thing I think that the government should do is start caring out quality over quantity instead of the latter which is why many Americans are overweight. What caught my eye the most was the fact that if all U.S. citizens didn't eat meat 1 day of the week, then we would be the equivalent, in carbon saved, of taking 20 million mid size sedans off the road for a year. This just shows how much oil is used to produce the meat we depend so strongly on.

America has always been about industialization and made the population believe that farming and agriculture was a poor mans job. I agree with the author that the goverment should start doing the opposite, we need more farmers to create farms with more biodiversity then the farms we have today. Today's farms are made to produce as much of a certain product for super cheap prices. By using organic methods of farming and organic and natural pesticides, we can produce healthy crops and cattle.

Relatives in agriculture

Well during my research of my family, I found out that noone on my either parents side of the family were in agriculture. On my fathers side, everyone was either a businessman or a seamstress. On my mother's side, her father was a engineer and her mother was a teacher.

My Expectations from Enviromental Science

I am really looking forward to this semester in Enviromental science. I have always have had a passion for the earth and biology. I really hope to learn more about how we can interact with the enviroment and the creatures that live here. I also am looking forward to working on the garden and planting some cool fruits and veggies.

Magazine Reflection Take 2

1. Overall, when you think about the big picture of your writing, what improved? How did it get better? Why?

In many of my previous writing assignments, I would not start writing until Randy would ask for a third draft. I would quickly write my paper and hand it in with many errors and mistakes. But in this writing assignment, I proved to myself that creating drafts early and making revisions create a better looking essay. It also gave me more time to get some sleep and to work on other assignments.

2. Overall, when you think about the big picture of your writing, what still needs work? What do you think will help you improve? Why?

I believe that my picture taking ability is not what i would like it to be. I feel that I did not spend enough time on each picture to show what I was trying to accomplish. Next time, I will ask for some advice from other students who are better at taking pictures and have them critique the pictures.

3. Specifically, show us something that improved and describe the path it took to get better. You can quote your article, your drafts, link to evidence, etc.

In many of my paragraphs, my introductory sentence was bland and not interesting. But after help from students and Randy, I was able to revise the sentences and make them more interesting.

4. Describe something specific (or a few things!) that you learned about writing.
Writing is not something that just comes straight from your brain, you need critiques and revisions to create a better essay. A writer must be able to take adives from collegues and use it to form better paragraphs and sentences.

My Magazine Reflection

1. What went well for you during the process of creating this magazine?

I Was able to edit and revise my before the deadline so that I had more time to help others and revise some mistakes that i missed. This was one of the first projects that I feel I did my best.

2. What challenges did you face as you moved from an early draft or idea to a final product?
One of the challenges i faced was remembering to ask others to critique my article and then using that i information to make my article better. I feel that i was able to do this with this article and it helped a lot.

3. What other examples of work—student and professional—stood out as exemplary and served as a good model for your own work?
I looked at many articles from National Geographic as models that I would follow. National Geographic has many photo essays that I was able to use as examples. I also looked at other students who did a photo essay and took some ideas from them.

Internship Photo Essay (revised)

Luke Hatschbach's Internship Photoessay

Many sophomores and juniors have very high hopes that there internship will be fun and enjoyable. But for many, like me, there internship was nothing like they imagined. Although this internship was somewhat dull, I have learned a lot about the type of careers without going insane. Working with my hands is one of my greatest skills and being confined to a chair all day can make me feel like a wound up spring ready to explode any second.

For the past two weeks I have had the pleasure of driving 15 mph in traffic to my internship. On my first day of internship I gave myself an hour to get to my job and I arrived in about 30 minutes. Then I decided to leave a little later so that I could have some more time to eat and get ready; bu this time traffic was worst then the day before. By the end of the first week, I found out that if I leave 15 minutes earlier I do not hit any traffic on my way to my internship. I also had to remind myself to get gas the night before because one morning I forgot to get gas and I almost ran out getting to the gas station. Overall, I enjoyed driving in traffic I was able to relax and listen to some music before my internship.

After about the third day, I decided that I am not the type of person that can work in an office and that I cannot be doing the same thing day after day. I need to have a very interesting career or something that is different each day to keep me absorbed in the project.

My mentor Rochelle Kline-Casey is very nice; she has helped me so much while I was creating my script for executing tests. At some times I had no idea what I was doing. The other employees were also very helpful and each day at 3, we would have a meeting with the programmers in Boulder, CO about errors we have found in the program that we are testing.

I had my own desk and computer that I used to test different programs. Each employee had there own room or desk and no one had to share a room with another employee. Evan though all the rooms had doors, many of the employees kept them open to welcome others in to talk or to ask questions. Evan and I were working on the same program so that when we had a question we would often come to each other for the answer.

One of the coolest things of working at Qualcomm was the free drinks and Hot Chocolate. One of the first things I do in the morning is go and get a hot chocolate. It warms me up and energizes me for the rest of the day. The Vending machines do not always have the same kind of soda in them after a few walks around the building I was able to find out where I could get Dr Pepper and Mountain Dew. The Mountain Dew was a hard soda to find; I actually found it when I was in a meeting looking in the portable fridge. The mountain Dews seem to only be in the meeting rooms the reason for this still ponders my mind. Probably over the two week period, I must have had at least one of each type of soda.

The lab was the most interesting part of the building. The lab is restricted to non-employees, so I can’t talk about what goes on inside. The only way to get into the lab is to swipe your id badge; you must have special access to go into the labs. What I can say is that there are at least 50 computers in each lab and there 22 labs in the building. These computers are used to test the brew application for the new phones coming out in the market. For the beginning of the week, we used a high speed camera to measure the speed of a competitor's applications. We would complete these tests in the lab because it was the only location with enough room for the camera.