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Grow Radishes
Radishes are delicious to eat - a raw, crunchy salad root
vegetable. The most common type is the size of a cherry
and has a red or purple skin and white flesh inside.
Radishes are great because they can grow in 25 days in
a bed or container. Air Miles Diary
Sow seeds 6 mm deep and 2 cm apart in rows approx.
30 cm apart. Thin to about 6 cm spacing. Alternatively,
sow in a large deep container. Remember radishes need sun.
Plant some every two weeks or so while the weather is still
cool, for a continuous harvest of radishes.
Print off a map of the world. Keep a fruit and vegetable diary
for a week detailing the variety of fruits and vegetables
you eat. Find out where the fruit and vegetables come from examine and collect the labels/stickers on food items
for example Banana - Central America, Tomato - N. Ireland.
Grow Lamb’s
Lettuce
Make a note on your world map of where the fruit and veg
grow. You could even go one step further and create
a fruit and veg air miles map. How far did your banana
travel to get to here?
Lamb's lettuce, also known as Corn salad, is a salad
vegetable that's very easy to grow. It's great for
adding to salads and it's ready to pick four
weeks from planting the seeds. Pot and Plant
a Pineapple
Sow thinly, directly into finely raked weed-free moist
soil at a depth of 6 mm in rows, 15 cm apart. Thin to
about 10 cm between plants. Alternatively plant in
shallow pots and keep on your window ledge, harvesting
a few leaves every day. Keep planting through the
month for a steady supply.
Did you know...
you can plant a pineapple top - the green spiky part?
What you need:
a terracotta pot or recycled container, acrylic paint
or poster paint mixed with PVA glue, a pineapple top
and soil.
1. Decorate your pot to look like a pineapple.
First paint it yellow and allow that to dry.
Next add orange diagonal stripes in a
criss-cross design. Finish off the pattern
by painting a little gold or brown dot in each
diamond created by the line design.
2. Fill the pot with soil and water it to make it moist.
3. Firmly push the pineapple top into the soil.
4. The plant will grow over the next few weeks
it won’t grow a pineapple but it will look
like one in the decorated pot!!
Fruit and Veg
Portraits
Use the internet to research and recreate the work of
Giuseppe Arcimboldo. Arcimboldo was an Italian painter best
known for creating imaginative portrait heads and faces
made entirely from fruits, vegetables, flowers, fish or books.
Can you recreate a portrait using fruits and vegetables perhaps one of his famous paintings or one of your own?
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Method:
Most important of all you must ask an adult to help with
stage four, as this involves boiling water!
1. If you're using fruit to dye your clothes, add 1 litre of water
and 250 ml vinegar to the saucepan. If you're using vegetables
to dye your clothes, add 2 litres water and 65 g salt to
the saucepan.
2. Put the tee shirt into the saucepan. Put the saucepan on
the hob and simmer the mixture gently for one hour.
3. When cool enough to handle, remove the tee shirt from the
saucepan, wring out the excess water and rinse in
cold water.
4. Put 350 g of your fruit or veg in a saucepan with 1 litre of
water and bring to the boil.
5. Add the tee shirt and simmer gently for 20 minutes.
Take the saucepan off the hob. If you want a darker colour,
leave your tee shirt to soak in the dye overnight.
6. Wring out any excess water, then rinse the tee shirt in cold
water and leave to dry.
Tie-Dye a Tee Shirt
Did you know...
You can use all kinds of fruits and vegetables
to dye fabric: plums, carrots, lemons or red cabbage.
The fruit or veg you use will determine the colour
of the dye!
Your tee shirt is now ready to wear!
How does this work?
In simple terms, Fruit and vegetables are coloured due to
chemicals called polyphenols. These Polyphenols attach to the
fabric of your tee shirt and dye it. They are the same chemicals
that stain your clothes if you spill your food! The dye would fade
every time you wash the fabric, so adding salt and vinegar helps
to make the polyphenols ‘stick.’
* Blackberries - purple
* Raspberries or strawberries - red/pink
* Blueberries - blue
* Onion skin - yellow/brown
* Spinach - green
* Turmeric - yellow/orange
* Beetroot - red/pink
* Savoy cabbage - green
* Red cabbage - red/pink
You could experiment with different foods to get different
coloured tee shirts, Or you could experiment with tee shirts made
from different materials?
Materials you need:
* White tee shirt
* Big saucepan
* Water
* Oven
* Salt and white vinegar
* The fruit or veg you wish to dye with
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Experimental
Growing
Plant unusual things at home to
discover what happens to them.
Why not try some of these?
Grow Tomatoes from Tomato Slices
1. Half fill your pot or container with potting soil.
2. Cut your tomato into 1 cm thick slices.
3. Place the tomato slices in a circle on the potting
soil in your pot.
4. Cover the tomato slices with a thin layer of soil.
5. Once germinated (up to 2 weeks) when the plants
are strong enough you can transplant and grow them on.
Make a Rake and
Wiggly Worms
Board Game
Grow Pomegranates from Pips
1. Cut open the fruit and scoop out some of the little jewels.
Squeeze them gently on some kitchen towel to extract
the pips.
2. Wash the pips under running water and sow them straight
away in a pot of moist compost. The pips like heat to
germinate, so seal the pot in a plastic bag and put it a
warm place. Germination should take between 5 and–10 days.
3. Once the pips have sprouted, remove the bag and move the pot
to a warm, sunny windowsill. Keep the compost moist.
4. When about 10 cm tall transplant them and grow on.
You need:
* 100 square and ruler or squared paper
* black marker
* crayons
* lolly sticks
* pipe cleaners
* glue
* dice and counters
Method:
1. If not using a 100 square, cut the paper into a square and
draw a 10 x 10 grid.
2. Fill in numbers 1 to 100 - starting with number 1 in the
bottom left hand corner.
3. Draw a garden scene over the grid - include insects, fruit
and veg, garden features and ornaments.
4. Colour in the squares and grid.
5. Draw rakes using the lolly sticks.
6. Glue on twisted pipe cleaners as wiggly worms.
7. Now you’re ready to play the game!
Grow Ginger from a Ginger Root
1. Soak the ginger overnight in warm water.
2. Fill a pot with moist compost. Plant the ginger root with
the eye bud facing upwards and cover with 5 cm of soil.
Water it well.
3. Leave the pot in a warm place. After a few weeks you will
see some shoots popping up and after 3-4 months you will be
able to harvest some ginger. Just move the soil away from
the ginger and cut off a piece at the end. Cover the ginger
back up again with soil. Ginger can be harvested endlessly
like this as long as you care for the plant.
Players take turns to roll a 6 to begin the game. Whatever
number you roll, you then move that number of squares.
If you land on a rake, you can climb up it. If you land on a wiggly
worm, you must slide down it.
The winner is the player who gets to 100 first.
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Rainbow Fruit
Kebabs
The Perfect
Summer Lunch
How to make Chicken and Vegetable Tacos:
Ingredients:
* 500 g skinless chicken breasts
* 1 tsp ground cumin
* 1 tsp smoked paprika
* 4 chopped tomatoes
* 8 tsp Greek yogurt
* lettuce, herbs of your choosing
* taco shells
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Method:
Cook the chicken. Chop it into bite sized chunks.
Toss in a bowl with the cumin and smoked paprika.
Chop the tomatoes. Warm the taco shells under a grill.
Fill the shells with lettuce, spicy chicken, tomatoes,
yogurt and top with herbs of your choice.
Coriander tastes great with these!
Ingredients (makes 8):
8 skewers
8 raspberries
8 hulled strawberries
8 satsuma segments
8 slices banana
8 cubes peeled kiwi fruit
8 green grapes
8 red grapes
16 blueberries
Method:
Onto each skewer, thread the following fruit:
1 raspberry, 1 hulled strawberry, 1 satsuma segment,
1 slice of banana, cube of peeled kiwi, 1 green and
1 red grape, and finish off with 2 blueberries.
Mini Flatbread Pizza
Ingredients:
* 4 flatbreads
* tomato puree
* red pepper
* green pepper
* can of drained tuna
* 1 small chopped onion
* Grated cheddar Cheese
* Italian herbs
Method:
Spread tomato puree on each flatbread.
Top each with tuna, chopped onion, red
and green pepper.
Sprinkle on cheese and Italian herbs
or herbs of your choosing.
Bake on a tray for 12 -15 minutes at
180 degrees.
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If you wish, you could make a dip with natural
yogurt and honey!