I have the maritime nw garden guide! It’s pretty good, and if you want one even better I would recommend Growing Vegetables West of the Cascades by Steve Solomon. I’m in Portland so that’s great that I can actually recommend something specific to our mutual region!
Lobelia is an annual which I’ve never had luck with until I hung them from this spot here. The right plant in the right spot!
Also I would recommend to anyone with kids to grow beans. Any kind of beans. You can put them in the ground now or pretty much all summer long. Beans are great to get kids into gardening because they are so easy, grow so fast and plentiful, and the large beans are easy for kids to hold and plant