Education Zone

Where do Salads come from?

In preparation for this exercise you need to buy in a range of Salads products that you want to talk about. The following are recommended:

Tomatoes

Peppers

Lettuce- different types

Cucumbers

Radish

Beetroot

Spring onions

Salad cress

1. Start the session with a question

What are salads?

2. Move onto holding up an example of each and find out what the class know about each product.

What is this?

Where are they grown?
In greenhouse
Outside in the soil

How are they grown?
Horizontal crops
Vertical crops

The table below provides some very basic information about each product.

TOMATOES
Where do they grow Greenhouses	How are they grown Normally grown in hydroponics on a long stem with clusters of fruit.

PEPPERS
Where do they grow Greenhouses	How are they grown Normally grown in hydroponics. On stems that are trained to a string.

CUCUMBERS
Where do they grow Greenhouses	How are they grown Up a string with cucumbers hanging from each leaf node.

LETTUCE
Where do they grow Both in greenhouses and outside.	How are they grown In the ground as a flat crop - plants equally spaced out across an area.

RADISH
Where do they grow In greenhouses and outside.	How are they grown In the ground as a flat crop - plants equally spaced out across an area.

BEETROOT
Where do they grow Outside	How are they grown In the ground as a flat crop - plants equally spaced out across an area.

SPRING ONIONS
Where do they grow Outside	How are they grown In the ground as a flat crop - plants equally spaced out across an area.

SALAD CRESS
Where do they grow Greenhouse	How are they grown In a small preformed tray with a little amount of peat.

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