What should I plant?

This year my mom is letting me have my very own garden. I have been planning what I am going to plant. In the garden box my mom gave me I am going to plant parsley, peppermint, and carrots.

My dad is letting me have some land to plant corn, pumpkins and potatoes. I know its going to be a lot of work because it is a little ways away from the house so I will have to carry my buckets of water every day and night during the summer.

I have been reading a garden book called "The Vegetable Gardeners Bible." I like how the book tells you how to take care of your garden easily. The book is easy to read and has good pictures.

For carrots it says that if you want to grow good you should thin them out and not put them too close together or they will curl around each other. That is what happened to us 2 years ago.

When I plant my sweet corn I learned that I shouldn't peek at them to see if they are ready to be picked. Instead of peeking at them you should wait until the silk is brown and dry.

I am real excited about planting potatoes because we have never done that before. The book says there are different kinds of potatoes, a rainbow of potatoes. Right now I am trying to figure out what kind I should grow.