Green Thumbs: A Kid's Activity Guide to Indoor and Outdoor Gardening

Green Thumbs: A Kid's Activity Guide to Indoor and Outdoor Gardening — page 5
How Plants Drink Want to see how a plant sucks up water This activity will show you MATERIALS Celery or a white flower Glass of water Food coloring Put several drops of red or blue food coloring in a glass of water Put a piece of celery in the colored water Within hours you can see the color begin to travel up the celery stem The plant is pulling the water up to get it to the leaves Try putting a white flower such as a carnation in colored water Within a day the color will have tinted the blossom Water for fields of broccoli in California travels in pipes from mountain lakes up to 1 300 miles