When the Boxcar children help out in a local garden, they dig up one strange thing after another! First, the tomato plants seem to move every day. Find out how that can be.

After helping Strega Nona plant her vegetable garden just so, Big Anthony takes some extra seeds and sows another garden willy nilly, then must find a way to deal with the consequences.

"Garlic embarks on a harrowing journey to the Magic Market, far from her home valley, to help her new friend The Count, while dealing with the news from witch Agnes that Garlic is slowly turning human."--

Squirrel teaches Little Groundhog how to plant and tend a vegetable garden.

"Carson and his classmates make something special with the vegetables they've grown in the school friendship garden." --

Customers are eager to buy Henrietta and George's beautiful vegetables, but are frightened away by Henrietta's terrible singing. Then Henrietta and George find out the plants thrive only when Henrietta sings.

A father and child grow vegetables and then make them into a soup.

"A little boy helps with adult gardening tasks such as planting and watering seeds, weeding, and harvesting, with simple text designed to encourage dialogue between the reader and child."--

"When Snail's bucket home is turned over, a ladybug takes him on a journey through the vegetable garden, discovering delicious new foods while encountering new animals." --

"Grandfather's garden is popping with peas. It's buzzing with blossoms and bumbly bees. It's bursting with berries and beans and potatoes and tall, twining vines of too many tomatoes. Eric Ode's rollicking, rhyming garden story combined with Kent Culotta's exuberant illustrations will have readers, tapping their toes (and digging their dirt, and sowing their seeds) as they count the too-many tomatoes overgrowing the garden, the building, the block...