When you are diving into a salad or a bowl of mashed potatoes, do you think about where your vegetables come from? Do you think about how they grow? Today, our class investigated how the vegetables we eat are grown… whether they are roots, tubers, leaves, stems, or flowers.
The vegetables we examined were: artichokes, mushrooms, turnips, broccoli, lettuce, radish, brussels sprouts, yams, green onions, beets, and asparagus.
One of the most popular examples of a ‘tuber’ is a potato! Check out how they are grown (under the ground) below: