Easy places to begin
Kitchen Scrap Experiments Quick Radishes Loose-leaf Lettuce
These first projects show a change quickly and fit in a small space. Kitchen scraps are best treated as experiments; radishes and loose-leaf lettuce are better choices when you want to grow a real harvest from seed.
More veggie paths
Beans Carrots Corn Cucumbers Peanuts Potatoes Tomatoes
Growing food rewards patience with something delicious—and makes identification and cleanliness especially important. Use known food-crop seed, follow its packet, keep pets and manure away from harvest areas, wash hands after gardening, and rinse produce under cool running water before preparing it.
Never taste treated seed, an unknown plant, green potato tissue, or a crop affected by an allergy. Ask an adult when a harvest needs cooking or special preparation.