[SeeAPenny]

As long as my 76 y.o. father here in town keeps a garden (his passion), I don't have to since he raises enough for a small army. But when the time comes, I plan to concentrate on tomatoes, peppers, zucchini, summer squash, winter squash, cucumbers, beans, spinach, onions, lettuce, kale and collard -- all things I've grown in the past with varying degrees of success. But, I'm also interested in potatoes, broccoli, corn, eggplant, peas, all root vegetables (carrots, beets, turnips), cabbage and chard. I'll need to get myself a plot out at the community gardens (where my dad gardens), since my yard, though good-sized, is densely shaded. I do keep a small herb garden here at home though, and can always count on my sage and chives to go nuts. The basil does ok. We put in rhubarb the year before last -- we're still waiting on that one since you can't harvest right away. We also have an aged apple tree that produces so-so apples every other year. Every year I try tomatoes and peppers in containers, in a new spot each time -- no luck so far. A few years back however, I dragged home a curb-picked utility sink (the kind on legs) that someone was discarding, filled it with soil and set it in a sunny spot on our driveway, for a 'raised bed' of sorts. I let my son plant green beans in it this past summer, and we got a bumper crop --right there in that sink....