Food Glorious Food Big Question
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Our summer class topic is…
This task will include a Big Question to reflect on about our current topic. You may like to research some information and have a discussion with your family members about the question and then write down your response. Try to include evidence and information to support your ideas.
For our previous Big Question we shared information about where our food comes from and looked into where food is grown and sourced and the process involved.
Big Question of the Week
How does my garden grow?
Select one type of fruit or vegetable. Find out some top tips about how to successfully grow it in a garden.
To find out more information to help you with your answer click on the links below. Warning, there are LOTS!
VIDEOS
Click HERE to see how broad beans are planted
Some of you might remember Barnaby Bear in Year 1! Click HERE to see him visit an allotment!
Click HERE to find out about how strawberries grow
Click HERE to find out about growing radishes
Click HERE to find out about apples
INFORMATION TO READ
Click HERE for growing vegetables
Click HERE for easy to grow vegetables
Post your answers on the blog!
Extension
Why not design your perfect edible garden where you could grow all of your favourite fruits, vegetables and herbs. How would you like it? Draw a picture of your garden and label everything that is in it. You may even like to show your Science knowledge by labelling some plants!
Send a picture of your design and I will add it to the blog.
Clemence garden design
Chloe H beanstalk
Chloe H garden design
Spring Onions :
These are easy to grow in pots or in the soil. It is perfect for adding in a salad or stir fry. Let them flower and they’ll self-seed.
🙂 hope you liked it Miss Jones!
Raspberries
For summer-fruiting raspberries, plant canes 40 cm apart; for
autumn-fruiting varieties plant each cane 60cm apart. Plant your canes to a depth of 8cm (3in), gently firm them in, and water well. Once planted, cut the canes to 25 cm from the ground to encourage lots of basal shoots.
Great answers. You’ve both found out how to make these foods. Would you like to grow them in your homes?
Good morning Miss Jones and Caruthers these are my answers:
Apples:
These fruits grow because the bees get the nectar in the flowers.
Radishes:
Radishes need sun and water, heat and soil.
Strawberries:
Strawberries need some warmth so we cover them of plastic.
Have a nice day everyone!
Hello Year 3, I have been planting nasturtiums in pots this spring; as well as producing beautiful flowers, you can also eat their leaves in salads! I sowed them in compost, 20mm deep and about 10 cm apart. They are enjoying the sunshine and I have been watering them every day. I can’t wait to see them bloom…
How does my garden grow…
Facts
– Strawberries need lots of heat to grow.
– Before the strawberries grow flowers blossom.
– The farmers cover them I’m plastic so they’re warm but only in the winter time.
For strawberries to grow they need:
Sun
Soil
Water
Oxygen
Suitable temperature
Apples
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Apples grow on trees, they normally start to grow in Spring . The bees like drinking the nectar out of the blossoms that fall and later on become apples. In the Summer the apples start to bloom into little spheres and at the end of Summer they are ripe and ready to be freshly eaten. When you don’t pick the apples off of the tree they fall off by themselves and start to rot. If you don’t want to eat them straight away you can wrap them and store them in a dark cold place.
Hi Class 3, wow some great information so far! Well done for including important tips!
Blackberries
Black berries grows in black berries bushes.
Apples
Apples grows on trees.
Strawberry’s grows in warmth
Strawberries grows in warmth .
Potatoes go in so you need to plant them first.
Blackberries growers only a bush.
Bananas go from trees.
In my garden I grow Raspberries!
Raspberries thrive in soils which are full of moisture and weed free. They dislike soggy soils. For best results, plant in a sunny position (although they can be okay in some shade).
Keep raspberries well-watered during dry periods.
Raspberries can be planted any time between November and March, providing the soil is not frozen or waterlogged.
Most people grow summer-fruiting raspberries, which are ready for harvesting in early summer.
I like eating my raspberries with vanilla ice cream.
Radishes-
To grow radishes they need sunlight and ?to grow. At the farm they use big machines to harvest them and to cut of the tops instead of going around with scissors to cut of the tops of the radishes. When their ready to get sent out to the shops,they get machines to harvest them up and go across a conveyor belt and get put into another truck and go on another conveyor belt and then the people put them in bags and they get sent of into the shops.
Excellent facts about how to grow these fruits and vegetables. Reading these has made me so hungry!
Oranges
Oranges are self-pollinating and don’t need bees to produce fruit. To grow oranges we need sunlight, water, and good cultural practices such as fertilizers and pruning. The also like about 30 days of 32 degree temperature to help maintain the firmness and freshness of the fruit.
I like eating oranges.
Top tips for growing strawberries:
1.They need to be planted in PH-balanced soil, which is rich in minerals.
2.Strawberries need at least 5-7 hours of sun.
3.Strawberry crowns can’t be planted too deep because then they will rot and most probably die.
4.Young strawberies should have an inch of water per week.
Strawberies are very demanding but I still like them and I will still plant them !
Useful information everyone, I can see there are important requirements to grow certain fruits!
Raspberries
The best container for growing raspberries has a diameter and a depth of at least 24 inches (60m) and has drainage holes. If we use frost tolerant containers the plants ? will remain outdoors in very cold ? weather.???
I hope you enjoyed it Miss Carruthers
Strawberries:
You can grow them in a garden or pot.
They have to be planted from late June until September.
Water them when the soil is dry and place them them, where the sun is shining on them.
They start off as a blossom first and then progress into a little berry.
They are going to be big and green ones, but still won’t be ready to be eaten until they ripe and red.
Well done Class 3 on your brilliant research on planting fruit and vegetables today! You have included some really important tips! Please do let me know if anyone successfully grows any 🙂
I have planted beanstalk with my brother
Thank you for sending the photograph and also for your garden design- you have been very busy!
GOOD AFTERNOON MISS
JHONES
PLUMS!
It’s important to choose a type of plum that will work with your location. There are three major categories of plum trees: European, Japanese, and American hybrids.
Japanese types flourish where peach trees thrive (warmer regions, generally). American hybrids are typically the hardiest of the plums, with some varieties being able to survive as far north as Zone 3.
Plant plum trees in loamy, well-drained soil. Plums do not do well when planted in clay-heavy soils or in locations where their roots will be constantly wet.
Space standard-size trees 20 to 25 feet apart and dwarf trees 10 to 15 feet apart.
Set bare-root trees atop a small mound of soil in the center of the planting hole, and spread the roots down and away without unduly bending them. Keep the graft union an inch above the soil line.
Hallo Miss Jones, today I will tallk about strawberies ?.
Strawberies ?
Strawberies are very hard to grow because they need lots and lots of care or otherwise they will be really small and not really tasty, or they will not grow out at all.
Some times you need to watered your strawberies 2 or 3 times a day when it’s very hot. I know that because last Summer I went to my Gramma and Granndad and they have a really really big garden and they have lots and lots of strawberies in their garden. Granda told me lots about strawberies.
They have lots of vitimins like : A, B1, B2, B3, B6, C, E, and many diffrent vitimins.
Enjoy your strawberie??????
How to grow Carrot’s
Sow the carrot seed sparingly in a drills in prepared in the soil from March to June.
Cover with thin layer of soil and water it.
Seeds should germinate with a couple of weeks.
Best to avoid thinning carrot to keep the area weed free. Water only in very dry spells.
You should harvest the fresh carrots in14_16 weeks.
Thank you Clemence for your creative garden design.
You’re welcome Miss Coleman!