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.
Using such data, Dr. Andy Bakun developed the coastal Upwelling Index. The Upwelling Index is, as its name implies, a measure of the volume of water that upwells along the coast; it identifies the amount of offshore transport of surface waters due to geostrophic wind fields.