1 Most vegetables need warm weather to grow. 2  Some vegetables, like spinach, lettuce, carrots and turnips, can grow in cold weather. 3  Vegetable plants develop flowers and form seeds if you let them. 4  We usually eat them before they get the chance to make flowers.echnically, tomatoes, green beans, pumpkins, squash and cucumbers are fruit because they have seeds. They donât have a sweet taste like other fruit, but they are indeed fruit. Root vegetables, such as potatoes, carrots, radishes, beets and turnips grow under the ground.
Don't be surprised if the water along the shoreline of West Michigan is colder than last week. The strong north and northeast winds over the past few days have caused what is called upwelling.. Upwelling is when wind blows the surface water in one direction and colder water from below is pulled up to replace it.
When the discharge of a river increases, the channel may become completely full. Any discharge above this level will result in the river overflowing its banks and causing a flood. The stage at which the river will overflow its banks is called bankfull stage or flood stage. For example, the flood stage of the Mississippi River at New Orleans is 17 feet. Discharge that produces a stage over 17 feet will result in the water nearing the top of the levee with potential flooding of the city of New Orleans (the top of the levee is actually at 25 feet above sea level).