Teachers from Dali Experimental Primary grew Butter Crunch lettuce in a hydroponic garden during their visit to Akron, Ohio.
September 21: Just 4 days later, the lettuce began to develop positively, and the leaves started to become wider and wider!
September 23: We added nutrient solution, and after two days, their growth speed was faster than the speed of growing leaves at the beginning! It’s like a child has found the direction of their development, stabilized their foundation, and started to grow more skills!
September 25: They drank a lot this week, and we needed to add 500ml of water every day. After that, they grew rapidly, and they were not as strong as before, but now they look the same! The weakest one finally didn’t catch up with the same pace, but it grew bigger than at the beginning! In fact, the growth of everything is similar, and the development of children is like lettuce! At the beginning, the same soil and the same environment, the growth speed was different at first, but after laying a stable foundation, they will grow wildly. In the middle stage, they started to grow similar, and the gap became smaller and smaller, but the weak child is weak compared to the outside world, but compared to himself, he has been trying to grow, and the speed is the same.
September 27: The lettuce grew so fast that I was really surprised! The crazy growth this week has gotten longer and longer day by day, and the smell is also very fresh! This makes me think, if someone has enough energy (like fertilizer), enough sunlight (like 16 hours of light), and plenty of nourishment (like water), how could they not grow to the way they should? Lettuce will grow to have the taste and lush green leaves it should! Children will grow to look like themselves!
October 6, final entry for Ohio: Tomorrow we have to leave Akron, so tonight we harvested all the lettuce! With a little care and a fair chance, even the two small, weaker lettuce plants in the middle kept growing over these last few days. In the end, they stood tall, too!
Children are the same way. With enough support and care, they can gradually grow and flourish, becoming who they are meant to be.
We’re so happy to have spent this past month growing lettuce. The children were delighted to see their harvest—to watch it grow and smell its fresh scent. And finally, it became our breakfast!