Learn to plant a garden — and reap the delicious, healthy rewards — in Harry's Healthy Garden (Baby First with content provided by the American Heart Association, June 2015). Peppy Harry the Bunny welcomes children to select a garden bed (there are twelve, six per screen) then choose their first crop: garden beans, parsley, tomatoes, summer squash, spinach, sweet peppers, green onions, lettuce, strawberries, yellow corn, cauliflower, carrots.

Say we pick garden beans: children are encouraged to dig holes, swiping a shovel with their finger, then pour fertilizer, plant seeds, and cover the holes (all with finger swipes). Since our crop needs poles to grow (not all of them do), we set up the poles that appear, then water the plants using a watering can. We swipe the sun to shine on our crops, the beans start to grow, flies appear (and we help a frog eat them), then we harvest the beans by swiping them into a basket. The same basic format applies for each of the crops with some slight variation in the activities; for example, for carrots you first have to remove rocks from the garden bed and for strawberries you need to pull some weeds.



After the crops are harvested, the scene changes to a kitchen ("Washing fruit and vegetables is very important" reminds Harry as a sink rinses them off). Then we chop with the provided knife ("Be careful with the knife") and "prepare a yummy dish."



There are six preparation methods to choose from, and more helpful safety reminders; if you choose the oven Harry says, "Let's roast! Don't touch the hot oven without oven mitts" (and the app will only let you open the oven door by swiping the mitt provided). The timer rings, the dish is done, another reminder ("Be careful, it's hot! Before eating a hot dish, you must let it cool down"), then Harry, hungry, politely asks if he can eat it. After that you can go back to the garden to select a new crop to grow.

Harry is persistent; on any screen, if you don't act quickly enough he happily repeats himself (just a little more time to think would be useful; then again, it's not War and Peace, and you can mute Harry). Farm-appropriate-sounding banjo music plays in the background, upbeat, as is everything in this super-cheerful (but not annoyingly so) up-with-agriculture app. American Heart Association links (recipes, nutritional guidelines, etc.) are included in the About section.

Available for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch (requires iOS 6.0 or later); free. Recommended for preschool users.