If vegetables don't have seeds, how can you grow and regrow?!


Question: I don't get that how do they do it, my brother Abdulahi asked me that question......I don't know the answer and I'm usually the one with the answers.


Answers: I don't get that how do they do it, my brother Abdulahi asked me that question......I don't know the answer and I'm usually the one with the answers.

All vegetables have seeds but some don't make them until 2 years after they have been planted. These are called bi-annuals. Carrots, beets and turnips will all make seeds if they are left in the ground for a second year.

Also some like potatoes can be grown from cutting up a potato and planting it. A whole plant will grow from a piece of the potato and that plant will make several potatoes.

most grow on plants or trees that have flowers that contain seeds or the veggie themselves are seeds like corn

I don't know where you get your information but ALL veggies have seeds...... peppers, corn, peas, even POTATOES have "seeds"....next time you go to a farm store in the early spring, look at the SEED PACKETS they sell... you will see all kinds of VEGETABLE SEED packets.....

All vegetables has seeds.potatoes grow "eyes' on the side of the potato when it is kept 3 weeks or more just before it rots.corn when left to dry out is a seed, onions when they grow a green/white sprout at the top of the onion is a seed.etc.

The answer depends on who you are: a scientist? a greengrocer? I'll give you the botanist's answer:
A fruit is the ripened (swollen) ovary of a flower. The ovary ripens when the ovules inside have been fertilized. Seeds of flowering plants always are found inside fruits.

Botanists generally don't use the word vegetable to mean a plant or even a plant part. The basic parts are roots, stems, leaves flowers/fruit/seeds. Vegetable is a grocery store term: Tomatoes are called vegetables to distinguish them from the sweeter fruits like peaches. Carrots are called vegetables but the part we eat is of course a root.

In horticulture people talk about growing "flowers and vegetables" but that doesn't really make sense: tomatoes and peppers are flowering plants!


So in answet to your question, some vegetables grow from seeds, some from eyes, some from parts of the roots of an existing plant.

For example if you say that fruit is the one that contains the seeds, this is not correct and does work in all cases as in the bannana. If this was true you would have to say that the bannana is a vegetable. The correct answer that works for everything is that vegetables are a complex carbohydrate and fruit is a simple carbohydrate, fruit contains a lot more sugar than vegetables. Therfore fruit is sweet and vegetables are savoury, it's a simple as that.





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