What Vegetable Crops are Easiest to Grow?
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Here’s a list of veggies that are easiest to grow in a temporate climate.
Early potatoes: very easy to grow – they’ll do all the work for you – just remember to water them if you don’t have a drop of rain. I am looking forward to my first new potatoes this next week from my containers on my patio!
Broad beans: there are two benefits to this crop – not only can you pick the beans when they’re small and delicious, but once the plants reach their full height you can pinch off the tops (it helps to control the blackfly, which find them tasty) and gently heat them in butter. Depending on how many you have, they also make a wonderful soup.
Leeks: easy from seed or bought from your local nursery. They’re easy to transplant and taste excellent when young. You can always grow BIG leeks for show! It’s fun.
Radishes: a perfect fast-growing starter crop to encourage salad-lovers and children – the varieties available are amazing, all sorts of shapes and sizes. Radishes are always the first crop from your salad patch. It is very encouraging to eat your first veggie from the garden.
Runner and French beans: the flowers are pretty and the more you pick, the more you get. I love watching the runner beans climb the canes and bring their red flowers into bloom brightening up the garden.
Courgettes: need quite a bit of space. They become marrows if you forget to harvest them. Their flowers are delicious, too.
Herbs. You can buy a lot of herb plants from your garden centre and they are easily arranged in pots on your patio and some of them fit very well into your flower beds. I love to see chives in full bloom.
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