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Growing a plant by Siyun
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Table of contents
1.Caring 2.The seed and roots 3.The outside world 4.Bulb and flower 5.Fruit or vegetable 6.Fun facts
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Caring In this chapter you will learn how to grow a plant. Growing a plant takes hard work and sometimes is annoying. But growing a plant can also be great joy.
To care for a flower you will need: -A watering can -A pot with holes on the bottom
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-A sunny place to put your plant -Soil A watering can to water your plant, a pot with holes on the bottom to plant your plant in. The holes are for taking out water if there is too much water. A sunny place to put your plant because your plant needs sunlight. And soil to plant your plant in. You don’t need a watering can. You just need something to water your plant. For example a bucket.
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The seed and roots Your plant comes from a seed. A seed is a round thing that is in flowers and fruits. Some people eat seeds. Dandelion seeds are blown for luck. Seeds are easy to find. They are found in fruits, vegetables and stores. Roots are the first things to break through the seed’s hard shell. Roots have hairs on them that collect water you give it.
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! How to plant your seed: First pour the soil into the pot. Next, poke a hole into the dirt with your finger and put your seed inside the hole. Then, cover the hole and put it in a sunny place. You have to put it in a sunny place because the plant needs sunlight to grow. Also give it water every week. If
Did you know?! ! a seeds’s shell will get softer in the soil.
it is to hot give it extra water. Do not give it
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water if it is raining. Do not give too much water either or it may die!
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The outside world When your seed gets a bit bigger it pushes out of the dirt. That is called sprouting. When it sprouts you can barley even see it. It looks like a small piece of green dirt. It is very fun to watch your sprouting flower grow. But it is also very hard to find the flower. Then it grows and grows and grows until‌ leaves come out. There are 2-3 leaves on a sprouting plant.
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Still, give it water every week and extra water if it is to hot. Do not give it water if it is raining. If you do your flower will drown because there is too much water. Do not give it to much water ether. You might want to mark where your flower is with a Popsicle stick so you now where to water. And you can also now where your plant is and can find it with out having to look around.
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When your flower gets bigger and bigger and bigger it gets a bulb. A bulb is a closed flower. Someday the bulb will become a flower. After about five weeks your bulb will start opening. Then, after about three more weeks it will be fully bloomed. That means the flower will be completely opened.
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Bees Sometimes, bees will come. The bees pollinate witch means they take some pollen and also give good pollen to your ower. It will also help your ower make new seeds.
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This is a picture of a bee that is pollinating.
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Still, give it water and extra water if it is to hot. And do not give it water if it is raining. Do not give extra water ether.
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Fruit or vegetable When some flowers die, a fruit or vegetable takes it’s place. When your fruit\ vegetable grows big, you can eat it. When your flower dies, take the flower off the plant or else it may ruin your plant. After a week or two, a fruit or vegetable depending on what you planted. Wait for it to grow. When it gets big you should eat it. Don’t let it rot!
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Attach the plant to a straight pointing up stick if it is falling. Also still give it water every week if you don’t want your plant to die. Do not give it water if it is raining. Do not give it too much water ether. Inside your fruit or vegetable, there will be a seed. So if you want to plant something, for example a watermelon just take a seed out of your watermelon and plant it. And do same thing over again!
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But if it is fall, don’t plant your seeds. Because fall is close to winter and when your plant is growing in the winter it will die because of the temperature and snow. So wait till spring and plant the seeds when it is spring.
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Fun facts There are a lot of fun facts about flowers. Some are: The tallest sunflower is in Netherlands, The tallest flower is taller then a full-grown man, a sunflower can carry over 1,000 seeds. A flower can grow up 20ft and9ft down, and some farmers use sunflower oil to have as oil for their tractors, and more. Also another fun fact is: if there were no bees, there will be no animals because plant gives
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them food, and if there are no bees there will be no pollinating plants will die because they need pollination. Also the tallest flower in the world was bloomed on May, 4,2012. But, it had died already. When the flower is about to dye then that means the flower is making new seeds.
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About the author Hi . I am Siyun Cho. My family has a family garden and that is why I choose to right this book.My family garden had lots of plants but
now all of them died except for the peppers.
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