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My Favorite Plant
Hi, my name is Emily and I'm going to tell you all about my very favorite plant! I just love plants and flowers so much. My mom has a really pretty garden in our backyard and I help her take care of it. We have roses, tulips, sunflowers, and all sorts of other beautiful flowers. But you know what my number one favorite plant is? Tomatoes!
I know tomatoes aren't exactly the prettiest flowers, but I think they are just so cool. They start out as these little green bundles on the vine, and then they grow bigger and bigger until they turn into big, plump, red tomatoes! It's like magic. My mom says they aren't actually vegetables, but fruit because they have seeds inside. That kind of blew my mind when I first learned that. We have a whole section of our garden just for growing tomatoes. We have cherry tomatoes that are really small and sweet, roma tomatoes that are good for sauces, and regular big round tomatoes that are perfect for sandwiches and salads. I love
going out to the garden and picking the tomatoes right off the vine when they're ripe and ready. There's nothing better than a fresh, warm tomato straight from the garden. My mouth is watering just thinking about it!
Taking care of the tomato plants is one of my favorite activities. First, we have to get the soil ready by mixing in fertilizer and compost to make sure the plants will have plenty of nutrients. Then we carefully plant the baby tomato seedlings and water them very gently so we don't disturb the roots. As the plants grow taller, we have to cage them or stake them up so the branches don't fall over from the weight of all the tomatoes. Pruning the tomato plants is probably my favorite part. That's when we go through and trim off the yellow leaves and extra stems and branches so the plant can focus all its energy on growing big, juicy tomatoes instead of extra leaves. We also have to keep an eye out for any tomato hornworms, which are these huge green caterpillars that can munch through all the leaves and tomatoes if you let them. I don't like killing them, but we have to pick them off the plants so they don't eat everything! Once the tomatoes start turning red, it's hard not to just pick them and eat them right away. But my mom taught me that you're supposed to let them get fully ripe on the vine before
harvesting them so they can develop all their sweet flavor. When they're finally ready, we go out with our baskets and buckets and pick every single tomato until the plants are empty. It's always a huge haul and we end up with waaaaay more tomatoes than we know what to do with!
That's when the fun really starts though. We make batches and batches of tomato sauce to can orfreeze for later. We make fresh tomato salads with cucumbers, onions, and our home-grown basil. We make BLT sandwiches piled high with tomato slices. We even make tomato pies and tarts sometimes! Everything just tastes so much better when you grew the ingredients yourself.
My absolute favorite tomato dish though? Fried green tomatoes! Before the tomatoes start turning red, my mom will pick some of the biggest green ones and slice them up. Then she'll dip them in an egg and milk mixture, coat them in breadcrumbs or cornmeal, and fry them up in a pan until they're crispy and golden brown on the outside. We eat them hot with a little salt, pepper, and a side of ranch dressing for dipping. They're so tart and tangy but then also crispy and delicious. Thinking about it is making me hungry just writing this!
I've learned so much about growing tomatoes and taking care of plants in general from helping my mom in our garden over the years. It's hard work somettimes, dealing with the bugs, the weeds, the watering, and all that. But it's absolutely worth it when you get to sink your teeth into a delicious, fresh tomato that you grew all by yourself. There's really no better feeling than that.
So while roses might be prettier and sunflowers might be more striking, tomatoes will always be my number one favorite plant. They're just so much fun to grow, so tasty to eat, and reminds me of all the great times I've had working alongside my mom in our garden. Gardening and growing your own food is such a rewarding experience, and I can't wait to have my own garden someday when I'm older. But for now, I'll just keep on enjoying those delicious home-grown tomatoes!
篇2
My Favorite Plant
Hi there! My name is Timmy and I'm a 4th grader. Today I want to tell you all about my absolute favorite plant - the sunflower! Sunflowers are just the coolest flowers ever. They are so tall and bright yellow. I love everything about them!
First of all, sunflowers are ginormous! They can grow to be over 10 feet tall sometimes. That's like twice as tall as my dad! The biggest sunflower I've ever seen was at a farm last summer on a field trip. It had to be at least 15 feet high. The flower on top was as big as a beach ball. I've never seen anything like it. Most sunflowers in gardens are a bit smaller, around 5-6 feet probably, but they are still way taller than me. I'm only 4 feet tall, so sunflowers make me feel tiny!
The best part about sunflowers though, is their gorgeous yellow petals. They get their name because the flower itself looks just like a big bright sun in the sky. The petals are a perfect sunshine yellow color that makes me feel all warm and happy inside whenever I see them. In the very middle, there's a big brown circle made up of tons of tiny seeds all clustered together. That's where all the magic happens!
You see, each one of those thousands of little seeds can grow into a new sunflower plant if you plant it in the ground. Last year in school, we grew sunflower plants from seeds as a science experiment. It was so amazing to watch them sprout up from the soil and grow bigger and taller each day. My sunflower ended up being one of the tallest in the class. I was so proud! After it bloomed with that classic yellow flower, I collected the seeds to
plant more at home. Sunflowers are not just pretty to look at, they are also pretty cool in how they grow.
Another awesome thing about sunflowers is that they can make you food too! You might have had sunflower seeds before as a healthy snack. Those are the same seeds that grow in the middle of the sunflower. Once the flower dries up, you can take out all the seeds and eat them. They are crunchy and a tiny bit salty. You can also use the big seeds to make sunflower oil for cooking. My mom loves using it to make salad dressings. Sunflower seeds and oil are full of healthy things that are good for your body, like vitamin E and antioxidants. So sunflowers are beautiful AND nutritious!
I've learned that sunflowers are pretty special in other ways too. Did you know that the head of the sunflower actually faces the sun and moves throughout the day to follow it? In the morning it faces east, and then it turns west later as the sun moves across the sky. That's where the \"sun\" part of its name comes from - they worship the sun! Sunflowers are
solar-powered just like solar panels that make electricity from the sun's rays. Crazy, right? Plants are much smarter than we give them credit for.
Sunflowers originally came from the Americas, in places like Mexico and Peru. But nowadays you can find them growing all over the world, from Russia and Italy to Australia and Egypt. Pretty much anywhere that gets a good amount of sunshine can support these bright sunny flowers. They just make people happy no matter where they pop up. When I'm feeling down, I just think about a big bright sunflower basking in the warm sun and it instantly puts a smile on my face.
I've decided that when I grow up, I want to have a huge field full of sunflowers, kind of like the ones the farmers grow. Can you imagine seeing thousands and thousands of those big yellow flowers all facing the same direction? It would be like a sea of sunshine across the land! I'd wake up every morning and my field would be staring right at the rising sun. Then at sunset, all the flowers would be facing westward, soaking up those final golden rays. My sunflower field would be my pride and joy. I could harvest some for beautiful bouquets to brighten
everyone's day, collect seeds for yummy snacks, and just spend hours walking through gazing at my definition of true natural beauty.
Well, that's about all I have to say about why sunflowers are just the coolest plants in the whole wide world! With their
striking bright colors, impressive heights, clever sun-tracking abilities, tasty seeds, and overall cheeriness, what's not to love? Sunflowers are the complete package in my books. I'll never get tired of these sunny bloomers. Thanks for reading, guys! I'll catch you later - I've got some sunflower seeds to go plant!
篇3
My Favorite Plant
Plants are really cool! There are so many different kinds with all sorts of colors, shapes, and sizes. Some plants are tiny while others are huge towering trees. Some have beautiful flowers in rainbow hues, while others have fascinating seeds or leaves. Of all the amazing plants in the world, my absolute favorite is the sunflower.
Sunflowers are the happiest, sunniest flowers I've ever seen. Their big yellow petals radiating out from that huge central seed head always make me smile. Sunflowers can grow incredibly tall, towering over my head and reaching up towards the sky. I love looking way up at those cheerful yellow blooms. It makes me feel small but in an awesome way, like the world is this big amazing place with such incredible natural wonders.
One of the neatest things about sunflowers is how they can move! During the day, the big sunflower heads track the movement of the sun across the sky from east to west. It's like they're sweet little sun-worshippers, their faces always turned towards their favorite star. That's where they get their name from - they quite literally flower towards the sun. At night they'll face east again, as if eagerly awaiting the sunrise. I think that's just about the coolest plant superpower ever.
Sunflowers start out from these humble little seeds that you'd never guess could become such stunning giants. My grandpa lets me help plant the sunflower seeds in his garden every spring. We dig little holes, drop the seeds in, cover them over with dirt, and water them lovingly. For a few weeks, nothing happens and I start to wonder if I planted them too deep or forgot to water them enough. But then finally those first tiny green shoots poke up through the soil and gradually the sunflower plants start to grow and grow and grow. Before I know it, they're towering over me with those cheerful yellow blooms welcoming summer.
I love watching sunflowers grow from those tiny seeds into six foot tall beauties. It feels like magic happening right before my eyes over the spring and summer months. One of my favorite
school projects last year was writing down measurements of our sunflower plants every week to track their incredible growth spurts. By the time summer rolled around, our class sunflowers were taller than any of us! We all had so much fun trying to measure them and seeing who could grow the tallest, most showstopping sunflower. Uley Henderson managed to grow one that was 7 feet 3 inches high! He had to use a stepladder to measure that towering beauty.
Another awesome thing about sunflowers is that they are more than just pretty faces. Their seeds are packed full of protein, vitamins, and minerals that keep us healthy and strong. My mom adds sunflower seeds to all kinds of dishes like salads, granola bars, and baked goods. We even had sunflower seed butter sandwiches for lunch a few times when we ran out of peanut butter. Not gonna lie, I wasn't a huge fan of those! The seeds themselves are pretty tasty though, especially when roasted with a little salt. I love running out to the garden and plucking the seeds right off the giant seed heads to snack on while doing my summer reading.
Of course, sunflowers aren't just for humans - the birds and squirrels go wild over those seeds too! Sometimes I'll work on my math homework at the picnic table in our backyard and get a
front row seat to all the critters acrobatically collecting and stashing away sunflower seeds for the fall and winter. It's so fun to watch the squirrels stretching and leaping from plant to plant, hanging upside down to reach the seeds. The birds swoop in and daintily pick out seeds one by one. Grandpa gets a little grumpy that the animals steal so many of his prized sunflower seeds before he can collect them. But I don't mind sharing nature's bounty with our furry and feathered friends.
In addition to feeding us and the animals, sunflowers have all kinds of other cool uses that make them extra special. Did you know some sunflower varieties can be used to make paint, fabrics, and even soap? Or that the oil from sunflower seeds is a popular natural skin moisturizer in beauty products? Sunflower stalks are tough and fibrous so people use them to make paper, insulators for buildings, and even boards for construction projects. Pretty much every single part of the sunflower can be utilized for something. It's hard not to be amazed by such a versatile, hard-working plant!
But of all the sunflower's incredible qualities, my favorite thing about them is simply how beautiful and bright they are. There's just something so joyful about those glowing yellow petals fanning out around those big seed faces. Walking through
a sunflower field on a sunny day is an experience that fills me with pure bliss and wonder at the natural world. I could get lost exploring the interconnecting forest of tall green stalks and radiant blooms towering above me. There's nothing quite like the vibrant punch of color and the delicious natural fragrance of sunbathers mingling in a warm summer breeze.
Sunflowers seem to take all the best parts of summer - the sunshine, the warmth, the vibrant colors, the sweet smells - and wrap them up into one glorious package. They turn their joyful faces towards the light, grow taller and brighter, and ensure that no matter what, the summer days are overflowing with beauty, happiness, and life. That's why sunflowers will forever be my favorite plant - the radiant summer chiefs that brighten both the world and my heart.
篇4
My Favorite Plant - The Sunflower
Hi there! My name is Tommy and I'm going to tell you all about my very favorite plant - the sunflower! I just love sunflowers so much. They are the happiest, brightest, most cheerful flowers. Whenever I see a sunflower, it makes me feel warm and sunny inside.
Sunflowers are really, really tall plants. Some can grow to be over 10 feet high! That's like two or three times taller than my dad. They have these huge, round yellow flower heads that can be over a foot across. The petals are bright, sunshine yellow and make me think of summer days. In the very middle is a big brown center made up of lots of tiny flowers and seeds.
I like how the tall, green stems are rough and bristly. They're sturdy enough to hold up that heavy flower head. The big leaves are kind of shaped like hearts and they alternate going up the stem in a spiral pattern. Sunflowers are members of the daisy family, which also includes daisies, chrysanthemums, and zinnias. But in my opinion, sunflowers are the best flowers in the whole family!
Did you know that sunflowers are named that because their big flower heads actually track and follow the sun across the sky? In the morning, they'll face east to greet the rising sun. Then slowly throughout the day, the heavy head turns to keep facing the sun as it moves west across the sky. Isn't that just amazing? It's like the sunflowers are sun worshippers!
At night, the sunflower heads will face east again, waiting for the sun to rise in the morning so they can turn back towards it. Scientists think the sunflowers move this way to get as much
warmth and sunlight as possible to help make their seeds. When I'm a plant scientist, I want to study why sunflowers do this sun tracking behavior. I'll probably have to spend hours and hours just watching them turn their heads!
Another awesome thing about sunflowers is that they produce those yummy sunflower seeds that you can eat. My mom buys big bags of salted, roasted sunflower seeds and I'll sit outside and snack on them while watching the bees pollinate our sunflowers. It's so fun to try to catch the seeds in my mouth when I toss them up in the air. Sometimes the shells get stuck between my teeth, but it's worth it for those tasty seeds! You can also use sunflower seeds to make sunflower seed butter. It's kind of like peanut butter but it's made from
sunflower seeds instead of peanuts. My friend Ellen has a peanut allergy, so I always bring sunflower seed butter sandwiches for our picnic lunches at school. You can bake with sunflower seeds too and put them in breads, muffins, granola bars and more. Yum!
The best thing is that sunflowers are super easy to grow. Every spring, my dad helps me plant a bunch of sunflower seeds in our backyard garden. We just dig some holes, drop the seeds
in, cover them with soil and water them. In just a few weeks, the first sprouts peek up from the ground.
I love watching the sunflower plants grow bigger and taller every day until those cheerful yellow flower heads appear on top. My dad uses stakes to prop up the heavy flowers so they don't fall over. One year, we had a sunflower that grew over 12 feet tall - it was a real giant! We had so much fun measuring it every week with a tape measure to see how much taller it got.
When the petals on our sunflowers start to look droopy and fall off, I know it's time to harvest the seeds for snacking and for replanting next year's crop. My dad shows me how to gently rub the big seed head and all the plump seeds will come loose and fall into a bucket. We have to be careful not to crush them. Then I get to help clean off the seeds, spread them out to dry, and store them in jars for next spring.
There are so many different colors and varieties of sunflowers too. The classic ones have yellow petals with a dark brown center. But you can also find sunflowers with red, orange, pale yellow or even striped petals. Some have frilly,
chrysanthemum-like heads while others are more simple and daisy-like. I try to plant a rainbow of different sunflower varieties in my garden every year.
Sunflowers make me happy in so many ways. I love watching them slowly grow from tiny seeds into towering beauties. Their sunny yellow flowers brighten up my yard and garden. The big seed heads provide tasty, healthy snacks. And sunflowers always turn their faces towards the warm, bright sun - just like I try to look on the bright side and stay positive!
I hope you can see why the cheerful sunflower is my absolute favorite plant. There's nothing quite like the simple joy and happiness of a sunflower patch in full bloom. If you've never grown sunflowers before, I highly recommend giving it a try next spring. You'll be greeted every morning by their smiling sun-kissed faces. What could be better than that?
篇5
My Favorite Plant
Hi friends! Today I want to tell you all about my very favorite plant. It's a really cool plant that I just love. Get ready, because I'm going to teach you everything about it!
The plant I like best is called the venus flytrap. Isn't that an awesome name? It's called that because it actually traps and eats flies and other small bugs! The venus flytrap is a carnivorous
plant, which means it gets some of its food from eating insects instead of just from the soil like most plants.
The venus flytrap looks really unique and interesting. It has these hinged leaves that open up wide. The sides of the leaves are lined with spiky bristles or hairs. In the middle of each leaf there is a red color that looks almost like a tongue sticking out. Insects are attracted to that red part because it looks like a flower or fruit that they want to land on.
But the venus flytrap is way smarter than dumb bugs! When an insect lands on the leaf and brushes against those bristles, the trap snaps shut in just a fraction of a second! The insect gets trapped inside the closed leaf prison. After a few days, the venus flytrap produces digestive enzymes that dissolve and absorb the nutrients from the bug's body. So cool!
It's amazing how the venus flytrap can sense when an insect has landed on it and trigger the trap to close shut instantly. If it's just a raindrop or something else hitting the bristles, the trap won't close because it knows that's not prey. But as soon as an insect starts crawling around and brushing those bristles, SNAP! Game over little bug.
I first learned about the venus flytrap when my class went on a field trip to a botanical garden. They had a whole room just for
carnivorous plants like the venus flytrap, pitcher plants, sundews, and other creepy cool plants that eat bugs and insects. I thought it was so awesome how the venus flytraps could just chomp down on bugs like that.
When we got back to school, I did a whole research project just on the venus flytrap to learn more about it. I found out that it's native to wet areas in North and South Carolina. That means it naturally grows in the wild in those states, but you can't find them anywhere else in nature. People have been growing them as houseplants and in greenhouses all around the world though. Venus flytraps are perennial plants, which means they can live for many years if you take good care of them. Some people have had the same venus flytrap plant for 20 or even 30 years! They don't get very big though, usually only about 5-6 inches tall from the soil.
The traps on venus flytraps are actually modified leaves. Over millions of years of evolution, the venus flytrap ancestors developed those cool snap traps as a way to get nutrients from insects when growing in poor, nitrogen-deficient soil. Pretty smart plant, huh?
When the flytrap senses prey has landed and snaps shut, it forms an air-tight seal so the bug can't escape. Then it releases
even more digestive enzymes to break down the soft insides of the bug over the next 5-12 days. After it's fully digested and absorbed all the nutrients, the trap will re-open and get ready to catch its next meal.
A really fun thing about venus flytraps is that you can feed them yourself! You're not supposed to use something like a pencil eraser to trigger the trap because that can damage it over time. But every once in a while I'll use some tweezers to place a little piece of a hot dog or cricket on the trap. As soon as it senses the movement and weight, CHOMP, it snaps shut! Then over the next week or two you can actually watch the plant digest its dog food or cricket snack. Seeing that always makes me laugh.
Venus flytraps are pretty easy to take care of as long as you follow a few basic rules. They like lots of direct sunlight, very moist soil that's allowed to dry out a bit between waterings, and cool temperatures ideally between 70-90°F. A neat trick is to use distilled or rain water instead of tap water since tap water has minerals that can build up and damage the plant over time. A lot of people think you're supposed to feed venus flytraps all the time by putting bugs in the traps. But that's actually not a good idea! In nature, venus flytraps only catch a few bugs per
month at most. Feeding them too much protein can cause major problems. It's better to just let them catch whatever flies or insects wander in on their own and only give them a little treat once in a while.
Ever since I first saw venus flytraps on that field trip, they've been my absolute favorite plant. I just think they're SO COOL! What other plant can actually snap closed and eat bugs and meat like that? I've watched so many videos online of them catching flies, spiders, and other critters. Some people even feed them little frozen mice or gummy worms, which is crazy! I've asked for a venus flytrap for my birthday and Christmas for the last few years but my parents haven't gotten me one yet. Hopefully this year!
I'd take such good care of it too. I'd give it plenty of sun, keep the soil perfectly moist, and maybe let it catch a cricket or two as a special snack now and then. I'd name it something fun like \"Jaws\" or \"Chomper\" and put it right on my bedroom windowsill. I could watch it all day long patiently waiting for an unsuspecting bug to wander into its deadly trap. Then SNAP! Another meal for Jaws. I can't think of anything cooler than having my very own pet venus flytrap to feed and care for.
Alright friends, I've rambled on enough about these awesome killer plants! Let me know if you've ever seen a venus flytrap in person or had one as a pet. They're just so fascinating to me. I can't get enough of learning about them and seeing them in action. Every kid should experience the thrill of watching a venus flytrap devour an insect at least once! Write back soon and tell me if you like venus flytraps as much as I do.
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