Hello and welcome back to the Curious Kid podcast, Season 7. We started this podcast three years ago,

and we are still getting curious about new topics each and every week. Thank you so much for taking this fun and educational journey with us.

We have lots of fun things in store for season seven, so buckle up and enjoy the ride.

I can't wait to learn all about 25 new topics this season.

Let's start off with a topic suggested by two super listeners.

Double mail bag.

Double mail bag.

Thank you for your podcast. I love the one about unicorns. I was hoping we could get curious

about plants and why they sprout in the summer, but not in the winter.

By for now, Veda, age 7 of Defiance, Ohio.

Hi, my name is Elsa, and I'm five years old from Maryland.

My question is why do some plants grow so fast? You look at them one day,

then tomorrow they've grown so much. Thanks so much for the awesome emails, Veda and Elsa.

We are so excited to get curious about plants for you this week. We sure are. We love nature, and plants are a beautiful part of nature.

We can't wait to learn more about them.

Olivia, what's the question of the week?

The question of the week is, which one of these fruits and vegetables do not grow on plants?

Strawberries, tomatoes, or pineapples.

That's a fun question. Three of those foods grow on plants, while the other one grows on trees.

Do you know which one grows on trees? While you're thinking, let's learn how plants grow. Most but not all plants grow from

seeds. That's right. There are some examples, like ferns and moss that don't come from seeds. They

come from spores. For the purposes of this episode, we are going to stick with plants that grow from seeds,

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