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Our project is from "seed to seed" which means we received a seed to plant a cabbage. We will have to go through the whole germination cycle. All the way until we have a cabbage that produces its own seeds. Get it? "seed to seed." In Mr. Burch's Science Class we had a lab with our Cabbage seeds. Before the lab we watched a video about salinization. How crops are being watered by salt water which decreases yield of food crops in the American West and Southern Australia. The only thing that can wash away all of the salt from the top soil is for it to rain. But sadly we are in a drought which will only lead to more salt.
So to understand what the salty water does our seeds participated in a lab experiment in our teams. What we did was:

1. Spread 10 seeds evenly on half of a napkin 
2. Wet the half of the paper with 3 mL of water 
3. Then we folded the dry side onto the wet side 
4. Press the napkins together 
5. Repeat the process with either 
6. Normal water 
7. 1% salt water 
8. 4% salt water
9.  8% salt water 

Then record the data within 3 days. Also we kept watering the paper everyday.

After the plants started to grow we chose our teams best 10 seeds and planted them in soil under a light.

When they are finally ready we will plant them outside where they will hopefully go to the flowering and fruiting stages until the end where they will produce their own seeds.