MMMVegetables

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MMMVegetables

• By Katie Wooden

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World Record Holders

• Largest Potato 24.9 Lbs
• Heaviest Carrot Nearly 19 Lbs.
• Biggest tomato over 7 Lbs.
• largest broccoli 35 Lbs.
• Biggest beet 43 Lbs.

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Do you like vegetables?

• Yes
• no

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Parts of plant

• Root
• Stem
• Leaves
• Flowers
• Fruit
• seeds

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Stem Vegetables

• Asparagus
• Rhubarb
• Celery
• Bok Choy
• Endive

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What part of a plant do we eat?

• Root
• Flower
• Stem
• Leaves
• All the above

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TrIcK QuEsTiOn!!!

• We eat EVERYTHING!!

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Leaf vegetables

• Lettuce
• Spinach
• Swiss chard
• Kale
• Arugula
• collards

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Spinach

• low in calories
• good source of iron and essential nutrients such
  as vitamins A and C, minerals, and fiber
• Spinach also contains 3 grams of protein per
  serving
• Use before leaves get tough and old, 45 days

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Flower vegetables

• Broccoli
• Cauliflower
• Artichokes
• Brussels sprouts
• cabbage

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Broccoli

• One serving has more than recommended daily
  allowance of vitamin C
• Florets should be tightly closed and uniformly
  green
• In season fall to early spring
• Has been around for more than 2000 years

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SEEDS WE EAT

• Snap beans
• Lima beans
• Corn
• Pea pods

Eating seeds?!?
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Corn

• For pigs (Zea Mays)
• Grown most in U.S.
• Grows in stages, Vegetative and reproductive
• 18-22 of rain/growing cycle
• Nitrogen is important nutrient commonly added

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Fruit vegetables

• Any vegetable with seeds
• Tomato
• Peppers
• Eggplant
• Cucumber
• Squash
• pumpkin

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Pretty amazing

• A horn worm can eat an entire tomato plant by
  itself in one day!
• Florida is number one
• Producer of fresh
• Market tomatoes
• Over half of tomato consumption is in the form
  of ketchup
• There thousands of different types of tomatoes

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Top or bottom?!?

• Root Vegetables

• Leaf Vegetables

• Radish
• Carrot
• Turnip
• potato

• Spinach
• Cabbage
• Lettuce
• Kale

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Harvest Time

• Snap Beans harvest before maturity when pods are
  almost full size but before seeds begin to bulge
• Broccoli cut 6 to 7 in. below flower
• Tomatoes fully colored but firm
• Lettuce outer older leaves 4-6in. long
• Corn cook, eat, or chill immediately after
  harvest

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Lets Take a LOOK
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Which is a Root Vegetable?

• Lettuce
• Carrot
• Cabbage
• tomato

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Good job!!
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Sources

• http//www.factmonster.com/ipka/A0781697.html
• http//www.vvsd.org/districtDept/food/foodFacts.ht
  mtomatoe
• http//www.mda.state.mn.us/plants/growing/corn.htm
  
• http//aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/extension/harve
  st/harvest.html
• http//yalibnan.com/site/archives/2008/12/the_larg
  est_pot.php
• http//forums.gardenweb.com/forums/load/tomato/msg
  0717582529184.html
• http//www.foodreference.com/html/artbroccoli.html
  
• http//msucares.com/lawn/garden/vegetables/harvest
  /index.html