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Pumpkins
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by:Christopher Leung 1
Table of contents 1. What is a pumpkin? 2. Is pumpkin a fruit or a vegetable 3. How does pumpkin grow? 4.What can you do with a pumpkin? 5. All about the author
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What is a pumpkin? What is a pumpkin? A pumpkin is a plant that grows out from a vine with a woody stem on top. Pumpkins grow from green to orange. Pumpkins are mostly orange but some times pumpkins are green. Pumpkins are always yellow or orange in the inside. Pumpkins can grow as big as a second grade child. It may even grow bigger. Some people grow pumpkins for food and some people grow pumpkins for fun.
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Pumpkin skin
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Pumpkin flesh Pumpkin seed 3
Is pumpkin a fruit or a vegetable? Is pumpkin a fruit or a vegetable? Lots of people say pumpkin is a vegetable and lots of people say pumpkin is a fruit. People say pumpkin is a fruit because it has seeds in side. People also say pumpkins are a vegetable because it can be cooked. Some fruit has skin on the out side and pumpkins has . Pumpkins grow from a vine like water melon and vegetables don`t. Pumpkins are both fruit and vegetable because it can be cooked and it has seed in side.
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How does pumpkins grow? How does pumpkin grow? Pumpkins start as seeds like all plants. After a few days there will be roots growing under the seed. About one week later a little stem will start to grow out. Weeks after weeks the stem will grow taller and taller that`s the vine. The vine lays itself to the wall or fence. When the vine is done growing there will be a gold colored flower and then a pumpkin will start growing on the vine. It will take about twenty days for a pumpkin to grow out from the vine. Every day the pumpkin grow`s bigger and bigger. When summer is gone the green pumpkin turns to gold. Pumpkin takes up a lot of water in order to be fully grown. Pumpkins also take up a lot of room to be fully grown.
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What can you do with a pumpkin? What can you do with a pumpkin? You can do a lot of things with a pumpkin for example you can carve a pumpkin in to a jack o lantern and put a candle in side. You can also make a pumpkin stew all you need to do is cook a pumpkin and put vegetable inside the cooked pumpkin juice. Most people make pumpkin pie with pumpkin. The pumpkin that has green skin on the out side is the kind that has harder skin. The ones with orange skin is the ones that has soft skin and also the ones to make jack o lantern.
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About the author
! ! Hi I am Christopher. I am eight years old. I am in third grade. I live in Shanghai. My Dad work`s at a compony called EY. My Mom stays home and Watch TV. I have an older sister. I listen to my sisters command. My favorite thing to do at school is read books. I am born in 2006. My birthday is on February second. I picked this topic because I know most about pumpkins out of all fruits and vegetables.
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