Nature Study - Vegetable regrowth

We have been doing a lot more nature study this year. I enjoy it so much and the kids are starting to get on board with the idea. We try and talk nature walks once or twice a week. I don't always have the kids do entries in their nature journals, but they often do without prompting. We follow the monthly Outdoor Hour Challenges from Barb at Handbook of Nature Study. We try and pick a few each month that give us more of a purpose when going out on our walks.

Today we set up a simple experiment for following the growth (or not) of tuberous vegetables. This is a very simple set up, easy and fun to follow. This challenge was in the January Outdoor Hour newsletter. We picked five different root vegetables, turnip, radish, carrot, rutabaga, and yam. We cut off part of the bottom, pocked toothpicks around and set them in containers of water, with the base in the water. We got the instructions and notebook page from Hearts and Trees.

The kids used the notebook page to draw the set up. We will keep an eye out and note any changes we observe. We set the tray of containers on our nature table in front of a window. Hopefully at least some of them will sprout some growth.