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Vegetables & garden

13 discoveries with Puschel and Flauschi.

13 discoveries in the Wusel garden: tomatoes, cucumbers and sweet peppers in the greenhouse; carrots, radishes, peas, lettuce, potatoes, courgettes, edible pumpkins, kohlrabi and bulb onions in the beds beside it. With varied discoveries and stages of growth.

Puschel waters the soil in the greenhouse while Flauschi examines red and green tomatoes on a plant.

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Discovering tomatoes

Tomatoes develop from flowers and are botanical fruits. In cooking, we treat them as vegetables.

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Flauschi examines a cucumber tendril on its support while Puschel imitates holding on with a raised paw.

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Discovering cucumbers

Cucumbers grow on climbing plants that can hold on with tendrils. The cucumber develops from a flower and may contain seeds depending on variety.

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Flauschi holds a red sweet pepper while Puschel examines a green one on the low garden table in the greenhouse.

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Discovering sweet peppers

Pepper fruits develop from flowers. Seeds grow inside them.

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Puschel holds a harvested carrot beside the bed while Flauschi examines its root. Their greenhouse stands behind them.

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Discovering carrots

The thick edible part of a carrot is a storage root. It grows in the soil, with finely divided leaves above it.

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Flauschi holds a harvested red radish with leaves and a thin root while Puschel sits curiously beside the bed.

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Discovering radishes

In a radish, mainly a young stem section just above the thin root swells. We eat that swollen part.

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The two Wusels examine an opened garden-pea pod beside a bed with a climbing support; the greenhouse is in the background.

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Discovering peas

The green peas inside a pod are seeds. The pod itself is the plant’s fruit.

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Puschel holds a harvested green lettuce leaf like a fan while Flauschi examines reddish loose-leaf lettuce beside the bed.

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Discovering lettuce leaves

We eat the leaves of garden lettuce. Hearting lettuce forms a denser head; loose-leaf lettuce has a more open rosette.

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Flauschi shows a small eye on a brown potato while Puschel looks curiously at it beside a harvest crate.

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Discovering potato tubers

A potato tuber is a swollen underground stem, not a root. It stores reserves.

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Flauschi uses her paws to compare the length of a small green courgette on its plant while Puschel laughs beside her.

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Discovering courgettes

Courgettes develop from flowers and are botanical fruits. In cooking, they are vegetables.

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Puschel squats beside an orange edible pumpkin on straw, still attached to its plant, while Flauschi laughingly gestures its round shape.

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Discovering edible pumpkins

A pumpkin or squash develops from a flower and contains seeds. Shapes and colours vary beyond round orange pumpkins.

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Flauschi points directly to the pale-green swollen kohlrabi stem above the soil while Puschel examines it with his paws behind his back.

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Discovering kohlrabi

The kohlrabi bulb is a swollen stem above ground, with leaves growing from it. It is not a root.

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Puschel examines a dry onion skin while Flauschi holds a harvested bulb onion with fine root remnants; both sit side by side.

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Discovering bulb onions

An onion's juicy layers are thickened leaf parts storing reserves around a very short stem. Roots grow underneath.

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The two equally sized Wusels examine young bean plants on a garden table.

How does a seed become a plant?

A seed holds a tiny young plant and a food store. With water, air and suitable warmth, a bean seed begins to grow.

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