Light up your salad patch with contrasting colors and leaf forms! At least a half-dozen different lettuces, all suitable for cut-and-come-again culture.

Culture: Sow as early as ground can be worked for best yields. Minimum soil temperature for pea seed germination: 40 degrees. Optimal range 50-75 degrees. Peas are legumes with moderate fertility requirements. Avoid excess nitrogen: they can fix their own. Use Legume Inoculant at planting. They prefer cool, moist weather and dislike dry heat. All peas produce more when staked; varieties over 2 feet must be supported. Use either Trellis Netting or...

Used for its fresh green foliage, its edible flowers that attract beneficial insects, and its dried seeds?coriander. Essential flavoring in Indian, Chinese, Southeast Asian, Persian, North African and Latin American cooking. Accentuates soups, salsas and bean dishes like no other herb.

Beautiful when sliced, this heirloom home-garden type attracts attention in the kitchen with its alternating interior rings of pink and white. Noteworthy also for its light red exterior color, green tops and exceptional sweetness. It loses quality when it gets large. Also known as Bassano, for the Venetian hill town in which it originated.

Arugula is a slightly spicy green that grows well in Yavapai County year-round. Leaves can be continually harvested until the plant bolts (shoots up to flower and make seeds). Astro is heat tolerant. Leaves are less deeply lobed and exhibit a more strap-leaf shape.

Everybody knows the 'secret' except the Chameleon. But who is the chameleon? To catch them, players must describe the 'secret' with just one word. Too obvious and the Chameleon blends in. Too vague and you start looking guilty. Now let the frantic debating, hoaxing and finger-pointing begin. But be careful, choose the wrong player and the Chameleon escapes. --

A collection of intriguing mathematical games, puzzles, stories, and factoids that reveal hidden gems of logic, geometry, and probability.