You can grow many of these tiny plants in patio pots!
Thumbelina Carrots
Strawberry Popcorn
Radishes
Scallions
Cherry Tomatoes
Miniature Pumpkins
Thumbelina Zinnias
Salad Garden
Plant your lettuces as soon as the ground is warm, and pick the leaves from the outside of the plants as you need them.
Ass't Leaf Lettuces
Spinach
Cherry Tomatoes
Scallions
Radishes
Carrots
Cucumbers
Gigantic Garden
Allow plenty of room when planting any of these jumbo sized plants!
Giant Radishes
Yard-long Green Beans
Zucchini
Beefmaster Tomatoes
Prizewinner Pumpkins
Mammoth Greystripe Sunflowers
Salsa Garden
Plant your cilantro from seed, but use bedding plants to grow tomatoes and peppers.
Tomatoes
Hot Peppers
Onions
Tomatillos
Garlic
Cilantro
Weird Veggie Garden
Check your garden center and catalogues for seeds to grow these unusual plants!
Spaghetti Squash
White Pumpkins
Yellow Tomatoes
Purple Pod Beans
Strawberry Popcorn
Yellow Watermelon
Red Sunflowers
Blue Potatoes
Thumbelina Carrots
White Icicle Radishes
Birdhouse Squash
Spaghetti Sauce Garden
Buy bedding plants to speed up your harvest of tomatoes and peppers.
Tomatoes
Green Peppers
Onions
Garlic
Oregano
Basil
Pickle Garden
Cucumber vines need support for best growth.
Pickler-type Cucumbers
Dill
Garlic
Pretty as a Picture Garden
For this garden, you use plants to fill in a picture or design you draw in the dirt. Try simple shapes like a heart, rainbow or your intial! Low growing plants work best. Decide on a color scheme and select plants in those colors.
Alyssum
(purple, pink, white)
Petunias
(white, yellow, red, pinks, purple, blue)
Marigolds
(white, yellow, gold, orange, rust)
Zinnias
(white, yellow, orange, pinks, red)
Salvia
(red, purple, blue, pink, white)
Impatiens
(white, coral, pinks, red)