My Fractured Garden Trivia Quiz

Answer: leaf lettuce

With leaf lettuce, one can take a few leaves from the outside, and let the rest of the plant continue to produce more.

Answer: sugar snap peas

Sugar snap peas have the advantage of tasting like peas, but you don't need to shell them. The whole pod is edible, like green beans.

Answer: summer squash

Pick them when a thumbnail easily breaks the skin. They're best when young and tender.

Answer: strawberry vines

Strawberry vines will put down new roots wherever they touch the soil and take over if you let them. If they get too crowded, cut the connecting vine and transplant the new rooted section farther away.

Answer: cherry tomatoes

The little tomatoes seem easier for me to grow than the big ones. They ripen fully, with no green shoulders. They're good in salads or for eating with just a dressing or dip. Full size tomatoes work better for slicing on hamburgers.

Answer: winter squash and pumpkins

They sure look different from pumpkins on the outside, but winter squash make some excellent "pumpkin" pies, rivaled only by those sweet little pie pumpkins.

Answer: grapevines

Companies offer grape vines that are supposed to be disease resistant, but they still seem to require some spraying. Watch for discoloring berries or leaves. The seedless varietes are best for eating raw.

Answer: blueberry bushes

The garden berries are huge in comparison to the wild berries. The bushes prefer acid soil, but can be grown in a container if you only have alkaline soil. Keep them well watered. They ripen over a short period, but can be frozen to use year round.

Answer: asparagus

Once you have a bed established, it seems to last forever. Modern kinds can be bought that have few or none of the tall fern-like female plants, which aren't edible, and only have the edible male stalks.

Answer: raspberry bushes

Blackberries grow wild in a lot of places, but raspberries seem harder to find in the wild. Cultivated bushes can be bought in everbearing varieties, or if you have the kind that bears once a year, you can freeze some of the extra harvest or make it into jam or jelly,