Your First Vegetable Garden: Start With These Six Plants

Lettuce, beans, zucchini, tomatoes, herbs and radishes — the easiest harvest of your life.
Salad All Summer: How to Grow Lettuce Without It Bolting

Shade cloth, succession sowing and the varieties that stand up to July heat.
A Cottage Garden in a Suburban Backyard

How one couple in Portland, Oregon turned a square of lawn into a garden full of color, bees and quiet corners.