Question
Im doing a experiment about Venus Flytraps (Dionaea Muscipula)for school. The question im trying to answer is: Does feeding a venus flytrap vegetables affect its health and growth rate? Can you give me some information on plants that will help me make a good hypothesis?

Answer
Skykam my little friend, I am so impressed with your use of the Latin name for this plant that I have to get back to you right away - I need to know how you are planning to feed this plant those vegetables.  My questions:

1. What 'vegetables' are you going to give it?

2. What condition will the vegetables be in? Will they be fresh? frozen out of a package? very old and smelly from the garbage a week ago? "composted" veggies?

3. Do you have a "control" plant -- one that will just be growing in the same conditions, the same size pot, the same light, the same soil, the same water, the same air but no vegetables?

I would like to make a suggestion here.  Can you revise your experiment and ask a different question?  Instead of asking, Does feeding this plant vegetables affect its health and growth rate? Can you ask instead, Does feeding this plant SUGAR WATER affect its health and growth rate?  Or you could ask, Does feeding this plant SALT WATER affect its health and growth rate?

There are a few problems you may run into with this Vegetables experiment.  They could be confusing.

Putting fresh vegetables into a pot of soil with a plant will predictably do more harm than good.

Not because the Vegetables are bad for the plant.  But because the Vegetables will DECOMPOSE in the soil -- they will ROT.  They do that because it is the job of all of the bacteria and fungi in the soil and air.  We like that to happen because this is where Soil comes from -- bacteria!

And because we like that, we call them BENEFICIAL bacteria and BENEFICIAL fungi.  Or BENFICIAL MICROBES.

But the BENEFICIAL bacteria and fungi take time to make vegetables decompose. And because they are so close to the plant roots, doing so much work, they cause a lot of problems for the roots of the plant.

What plants need is DECOMPOSED Vegetables.  And something tells me, Skykam, that you are going to use very fresh or nearly fresh Vegetables.

And this experiment will take way too many months to end.  At which time the Venus Flytrap will be dead.  Because of the problems caused by the DECOMPOSERS.

If however you feed your plant Sugar or Salt water (and you should measure your solution very carefully), you will see results much sooner.  In a month, perhaps.

What do you think?

Of course, this is your decision, and I am happy to answer any of your questions.  I just need to know about the condition of the Vegetables.  The other points I made are -- lol :) -- food for thought!

Please write back as soon as possible.  Thank you for thinking of me.