Summer growing

What will you grow?

There are plenty of vegetables to grow during the summer.

Why not grow some yourself?

Eating lots of plant foods helps keep us healthy.

Beetroot is a root vegetable, which means that we eat the root part of the plant.

You can eat the leaves in a salad too.

Sow seeds in a large, deep container so that the roots have room to grow.

Radishes contain vitamin C.

Vitamin C helps keep our skin healthy.

They are root vegetables too.

They taste great in a salad.

Spring onions contain vitamins A and C.

Vitamin A helps us to have good eyesight.

They taste yummy chopped up in a stir fry!

Carrots contain fibre and vitamin A.

Fibre helps food move through our bodies – it helps us go to the toilet regularly.

Carrots are also root vegetables.

Raw carrots are a tasty lunch box snack.

Sow seeds in a large, deep container.

Spinach is a leaf vegetable, so we eat the leaf part of the plant.

Spinach contains fibre, vitamins A and C, calcium and iron.