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How Do Vegetables Grow?
Plant a seed, water it every day and wait patiently. A gentle growing song, from tiny seed to harvest.
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About this song
How Do Vegetables Grow? begins with a question only a very curious hedgehog would ask. Poppy loves the veggies growing in a row — but how did they get there? Rosy, Lilly and Diggy each have an answer, because each of them grew one from a single tiny seed: Rosy her crunchy orange carrots, Lilly her round pink radishes, and Diggy his big red beetroot. Plant it, water it every day, watch the leaves grow slow and steady — until they are big and ready.
It is a patience song in disguise. The song doesn't skip to the harvest; it sits in the waiting, because good things take time — and a carrot you helped grow isn't a vegetable you're made to eat. It's yours. Every verse has an action little ones can copy along the way: poke the seed, pat the soil, tip the watering can, and grow up tall like a plant.
What it teaches: How vegetables grow from seeds, patience, food curiosity, colours (orange, pink, red), copy-along actions.
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How Do Vegetables Grow? - Lyrics
I love veggies
all growing in a row.
How did they grow?
I’d really like to know!
I’d really like to know!
I planted carrot seeds
in a soil with no weeds
every seed in a hole
until I planted them all
I watered them everyday
Before I went to play
I watched the leaves grow, slow and steady
until my lovely carrots were big and ready
I love veggies
all growing in a row.
How did they grow?
I’d really like to know!
I’d really like to know!
I planted radish seeds
in a soil with no weeds
every seed in a hole
until I planted them all
I watered them everyday
Before I went to play
I watched the leaves grow, slow and steady
until my lovely radishes were big and ready
I love veggies
all growing in a row.
How did they grow?
I’d really like to know!
I’d really like to know!
I planted beetroot seeds
in a soil with no weeds
every seed in a hole
until I planted them all
I watered them everyday
Before I went to play
I watched the leaves grow, slow and steady
until my lovely beetroot was big and ready
We love veggies
all growing in a row,
carrots, radishes, beetroot,
look how they grow!
Look how they grow!
Lyrics © 2026 Cairo Garden. All rights reserved. You’re welcome to sing along at home, in nurseries and in classrooms, but please don’t copy, reprint, publish, record or adapt these lyrics without our written permission. Copyright & permissions
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