While visiting her uncle John in the city for the summer, an African American girl, L'il Sissy, her siblings, and uncle transform an empty lot into a vegetable garden. Includes recipe for succotash.

After watching the first graders grow plants from seeds, Hercules, the class guinea pig, is inspired. He wants to grow things, too! During a summer vacation spent in the country, he gets his chance. With the help of a rabbit named Daisy (who knows a lot about gardens), Hercules plants his seeds and waits...and waits and waits and waits...Hercules leans that growing things takes more than seeds and soil, sun and rain. It takes patience. But sometimes...

"Kitty and her feline friends discover a secret roof garden and learn all about plants and gardening." --

Daisy suggests to her brother, Digger, that they plant a garden so Digger digs the holes and Daisy plants seeds for carrots, tomatoes, and other vegetables, while Digger plants a tasty surprise.

Students create a vegetable garden on their school's rooftop.

When her grandmother, a devoted gardener, dies, a little girl inherits her gardening gloves and feels closer to her memory.

Cat, Dog, and Mouse live together contentedly in a cottage by the sea, dividing the work between them, until A. Stranger, Esq., a fox from the Winds of Change company, arrives and stirs up trouble.

Illustrations and simple, rhyming text follow Dog as he does all he can to help his pumpkins grow and thrive, including accepting unexpected help from other animals.

Granny has built a splendid vegetable garden from scratch on the rooftop of her Chengdu apartment building, and when harvest time comes she gives the extra produce to her neighbors and cooks a delicious feast for her family.

"Told through rhyming text, three generations of a gardening family work together to bring a backyard garden to full bloom, from planting to caretaking to harvesting"--