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Thought-starter: What would you need to do to grow your own vegetables at home?

Food and water is essential to our survival. 50,000 years ago, when we were dashing about the savannahs and forests, humans hunted and gathered their food. Now things have changed. We don’t catch our food anymore; it comes to us in nice-looking processed packages. Food is best for you when you know the ingredients and it is grown locally. Most processed food (stuff that comes in a wrapper, bottle, package or box) contains things that no one can pronounce let alone knows the origins of. This is why growing your own vegetables is such a great idea!

1. Jack, Sean and Emma are building a vegetable patch each (see diagrams below) in their backyard.

Calculate the amount of wood that would be required to surround each person's vegetable patch (show your workings).

i) Jack

ii) Sean

iii) Emma

2. Jack, Sean and Emma need to know how much space they have to plant their crops. Calculate the area of each garden bed (show your workings).

i) Jack

ii) Sean

iii) Emma

iv) Who's garden bed has the biggest space in which to plant vegetables?

3. Jack, Sean and Emma are planning on making their garden beds 50cm high. Calculate the amount of soil that would be required to fill them (show your workings).

i) Jack

ii) Sean

iii) Emma

4. If Jack, Sean and Emma would like to plant out their garden beds with corn, which each row needs to be 50cm apart and each plant needs to be 20cm apart, how many plants would each bed contain? Use the diagrams below to help you space out your plants (show your workings).

Jack

Sean

Emma

i) Jack

ii) Sean

iii) Emma

5. If Jack decided to alter his garden bed but still use the same length of wood, design a creative garden bed for his patch.

6. The garden bed below is called 'The Pizza Plot' because it was specifically designed to grow vegetables that can be used to make delicious pizza. Think of your favourite meal and design your own garden bed that can grow all the yummy vegetables for your dish. You need to calculate the:

amount of wood required to build it
total area for planting the vegetables
amount of soil required.

Area of my garden bed

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