Scientific Method

One way in which people become accomplished green thumbs is by being able to analyze facts and form hypotheses that can then be tested using what is called the scientific method.

Now for the bad news. My cilantro is going or is already gone. I would post a picture but I don't want this blog to seem morbid. Rather, it is a celebration of life, not a macabre goth site about death and other crummbummers. I don't know if the cilantro got too much water, too much sun, poor soil drainage, or some combination.

There are too many variables to find out why the cilantro failed without running more than one experiment. If I had a kid one of the things I would make it do is conduct scientific experiments for me and write reports summarizing those experiments so that I could satisfy my curiousity by perusing those reports at my leisure. I hope that whatever school district it goes to has a good science program, so that it could be trusted to do this without making errors by 7th grade or so. I do not have much leisure time these days, so that is why I would need to read digests of the experiments instead of perform them myself. As you can well see, I have a lot of constraints on my time. Also, I work a lot as a professional in an office building.