Light up your salad patch with contrasting colors and leaf forms! At least a half-dozen different lettuces, all suitable for cut-and-come-again culture.

Annual. Old kitchen garden flower, 18?20" tall, also known as Pot Marigold. Beautiful daisy-like flowers feed pollinators, are good for informal bouquets, and are also edible. Blossoms can be snipped from their stems, dried and added to soups, salads and stews. They are also used in homeopathic remedies and herbal tinctures and ointments for their antiseptic and soothing qualities.

Culture: Sow as early as ground can be worked for best yields. Minimum soil temperature for pea seed germination: 40 degrees. Optimal range 50-75 degrees. Peas are legumes with moderate fertility requirements. Avoid excess nitrogen: they can fix their own. Use Legume Inoculant at planting. They prefer cool, moist weather and dislike dry heat. All peas produce more when staked; varieties over 2 feet must be supported. Use either Trellis Netting or...

This book is packed with side-splitters, tongue-twisters, knee-slappers, and even games and puzzles, you'll want to keep this on hand for the whole family, the whole year round.

Beautiful when sliced, this heirloom home-garden type attracts attention in the kitchen with its alternating interior rings of pink and white. Noteworthy also for its light red exterior color, green tops and exceptional sweetness. It loses quality when it gets large. Also known as Bassano, for the Venetian hill town in which it originated.

Presents a collection of visual challenges, riddles, and puzzles.