Shelly, I am a vegetable gardener and thrive on it, the food and the exercise. I grow lots of non starchy vegetables like tomatoes, cucumbers, squashes, sugar peas, green beans and wax beans, romaine lettuce, arugula, onions, radishes, turnip greens, and chinese cabbage. Each year something comes up in my compost pile and it sometimes does better than the garden. This year it is a summer squash that looks like a pumpkin, but is flatter. I have filled my freezer with squash casseroles. I'm also getting pumpkins out of the compost pile. It is great fun. I am an avid gardener.