What season do the tomato flowers start to appear?
Usually summer. You can write summer on your third picture. What have you drawn in your fourth pictures? Discuss different drawings and have the students hold them up as for picture one. What do most of the pictures have in common? Tomatoes should start showing up on the plants. What characteristics are different between your tomatoes? Different sizes and shapes. If they have colored them already, they may have different colors. What has happened between pictures three and four in order for tomatoes to start showing up on the tomato plant? Bees, butterflies or wind carrying pollen from one flower to another pollinated the flowers. The stems continued to grow, more leaves developed between more flower clusters. After the flowers died, the tomatoes started to grow. You can add more stems, leaves, flower clusters, bees or butterflies to your pictures or draw a new one on the back of your page. Which tomatoes will be ready to pick first? The ones closest to the soil. Why? They were the fir
