What's Wrong With Trying to Help? Gertie is disappointed when Grandma Trudy doesn't volunteer to help in the new school garden. So since she's the only one there who knows EVERYTHING about growing vegetables, Gertie tries to help instead. Soon everyone is calling her a bossy know-it-all. Janie says sometimes you have to just wait and see how things are going to turn out. But how can things turn out right if they start out all wrong? About the Series Gertie Green (you'd better not call her Gertrude!) is a feisty first-grader with the spunk of Junie B. and the literal mind of Amelia Bedelia. She's an outdoor kid who enjoys fresh air, gardens, and dirt. Whether she's planting seeds or digging them back up, trying out a new purple veggie or rage gardening (Gertie-style), one thing you can be sure of is that she's going to solve her problem with the help of whatever she happens to be growing at the time. Each book features a different vegetable as a key part of the story and includes how-to-grow information for young gardeners.