Growing Seeds

 As you probably know, plants grow from seeds.  In fact, you may have grown some plants from seeds yourself, like cress seeds.

There is a special name for when a young plant starts to grow out of a seed - we call it GERMINATION and we say that the seed is GERMINATING.

Here are some beans germinating and some bean seedlings growing.

Do you know what seeds need if they are to grow well?  They all need THREE things:

WATER      WARMTH      AIR

Then do you know what conditions do we need to provide if we want to produce strong, healthy plants?

This worksheet will help you to find out more about sowing and growing seeds.  Let's get going (or should that be growing?)!