Everyone tells a small boy that the carrot seed he has planted will never grow, but his patience is rewarded.

"The Booker-winning author of The Luminaries delivers a gripping thriller of high drama and kaleidoscopic insight into what drives us to survive"-- Five years ago, Mira Bunting founded a guerrilla gardening group: Birnam Wood. An undeclared, unregulated, sometimes-criminal, sometimes-philanthropic gathering of friends, this activist collective plants crops wherever no one will notice: on the sides of roads, in forgotten parks, and neglected backyards....

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.

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

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.

A gardener must clear the names of her friends after they are accused of murdering a woman everyone disliked. --

When a newspaper reporter who was digging up dirt on Goosebush's most notable family is murdered, Lilly and her Garden Squad must weed out a killer and save the Fall Festival.

Cumulative text and illustrations depict what happens in Jack's garden after he plants his seeds.

Tiny Bun and his grandmother plan, plant, and grow a vegetable garden. Includes step-by-step instructions for planting carrots, beans, cucumbers, corn, and sunflowers.

With her sure, loving, gardener's touch, Mrs. Spitzer nurtures the students in her classroom each year.