When the Boxcar children help out in a local garden, they dig up one strange thing after another! First, the tomato plants seem to move every day. Find out how that can be.

Logan is organizing a pet playdate at his greenhouse for all of his friends, and his treats won't be the same without his carrots. He's searched and searched, but his greenhouse is filled with plenty of plants and Logan needs our help to identify them. What do we know about carrots? They're long, orange, and have bushy leaves at the top--and, wait a moment, is that a carrot? No, that's a turnip. Where, oh, where could those carrots be? Can you help...

Word Bird and his classmates perform a play showing how seeds, sun, and rain combine to produce growing plants.

A mother and child plant flower bulbs in the fall, wait through the winter, and see them bloom in the spring.

Jim and Jilli plant their vegetable garden with some assistance from their dog Fiercely--but one unidentified seed is growing into a monster plant.

After working hard on his garden all spring and summer, Rabbit looks forward to harvest time when he can make soup, but every carrot disappears and Rabbit must find out who has taken them. Includes a recipe for carrot soup.

The orderly Sweet-Williams are dismayed at their son's fondness for the messy pastime of gardening.

"Gnome cannot wait to help his friends harvest the school garden! But his eagerness and excitement get him into trouble, leaving them all saying 'No, no, Gnome!'"--

While Molly prepares to plant a nice, neat vegetable garden, her cat Emmett does his best to help.

Eula, the square cat, grows many vegetables in her garden but cannot be persuaded to like spinach.