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Grow a VegetaYOU WILLNEED:
● 2 carrots (fat ones, if possible)
● 2 beets
● 1 smallrutabaga
● 1 small turnip
● 1 or moreradishes
● a glass piedish or pan
● paring knife
Use vegetables that are fresh, not soft and squishy. Look for
some that have a tiny bit of green at the stem end.
1 Cut off this much of the vegetables at the stem end: 2 inches
of the carrot tops; 11⁄2 inches of the beet tops; 1 inch each of
the rutabaga, turnip, and radish tops. (Ask an adult to help you if
necessary.)
2 Put the vegetable bottoms into the refrigerator. (Your family
can eat those later.)
3 Fill the dish with 1 to 2 inches of cool water.4 Put the
vegetable tops into the dish on their flat
ends. (Do not scrub the vegetable tops or wash them in hot water
before.)
5 Put the dish near a sunny window.
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getable ForestMake sure that there is always about 1 inch of
water in the pan. (Change
the water if it becomes cloudy.) In about a week, green leaves
will begin togrow out of the vegetable tops. Little white threads
might also emerge fromthe veggie tops. These are rootlets. Leave
them alone.
The green leaves get nutrition from the vegetable tops. In about
a month,when this food supply is used up, fewer leaves appear. The
existing leaveswill wilt and dry up. When that happens, throw out
the tops and start anotherbatch. You can try growing other
vegetables too, such as celery and parsnip.
Leaves
a. medium green and feathery
b. bluish green, rounded with curves
c. bright light green, hairy, egg-shape with curves
d. medium green with red veins, round and crinkly
e. dark green, round and crinkly
1. BEET
2. CARROT
3. RADISH
5. TURN
IP
4. RUTABAGA
Veggies
Turn the page to find the answers
Match the vegetables with their leaf color and shape: Harvest
Handfuls
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