Pumpkins

This is a pumpkin. It is round and ithas a hard skin. Pumpkins can be different colours. They are usually orange, but sometimes they are yellow, white, green or brown.

Pumpkins usually weigh between four and eight kilogrammes. Sometimes pumpkins can be very big. The biggest pumpkin in the world weighed 342 kilogrammes!

skin

Farmer Greenhand grows pumpkins.

He plants the seeds in a greenhouse in the spring. In the greenhouse the ground is dark and warm and wet. Farmer Greenhand waits for three weeks. The seeds grow into little plants. The plants have roots under the ground. They have leaves above the ground.

Farmer Greenhand takes the plants to his field. He puts them in the ground. He plants them in little hills.

He waters the pumpkin plants. A greenhouse hills

The plants grow bigger and bigger. The leaves are heart-shaped. Now yellow flowers grow on the plants. The flowers are bell-shaped.

The flowers grow into little pumpkins. The pumpkin plants need water and sunlight. The pumpkins grow very quickly.

In the autumn the pumpkins are big enough. Farmer Greenhand picks them. Farmer Greenhand sells the pumpkins at the market.

Heart-shaped bell-shaped sunlight