Top 10 Easy Vegetables to Grow in Your Garden : Most vegetables can be easily started from seeds placed directly in the soil of your garden, unless your area has a short growing season. These ten veggies are simple to grow from seed.
Top 10 Easy Vegetables to Grow in Your Garden
Why start from seed (vs. transplant)?
Starting your garden with little plants you buy (sometimes referred to as “transplants”) is perfectly acceptable—many people do just that!
As a matter of fact, several vegetables, especially the fragile ones like tomatoes, peppers, and eggplants, are best purchased as nursery starter plants. Their growing season is longer.
1. Lettuce
A lettuce-free garden has never been seen.
Seed lettuce directly in your garden plot or start it indoors for transplanting. One of the few crops that can be cultivated year-round in our area, it should be shaded and picked smaller in hot weather. Shady lettuce grows slowly and takes longer to bolt, so it can be harvested longer.
You can always cultivate new lettuce kinds because they have so many leaf shapes and green and red colours. Leaf lettuces may be cut as they grow, so you can have multiple harvests from one plant.
2. Green Beans
Beans grow in poor soil because they fix nitrogen! Bush kinds don’t need trellising, while pole varieties harvest longer. Cooler climates make snap beans easiest. Growing lima beans, southern peas, and asparagus beans in hot weather is straightforward. All bean varieties grow quickly in warm, moist soil.
Our Green Bean raising Guide has further information on planting and raising beans!
3. Peas
Plant peas 2 weeks before your region’s average last spring frost, if possible. Sow cultivars with different maturity dates together to gather peas all summer. Sow more seeds two weeks later. Maintain this trend until mid-June.
4. Radishes
Radishes can be planted with slower-growing veggies and collected in 24 days. Radishes can be planted as soon as spring soil is workable.
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5. Carrots
We only mention carrots because they’re easy to cultivate in loose, sandy soil in spring and fall (carrots can endure frost). Some carrots are disease- and pest-resistant and purple to white.Seed each seed 2 inches apart or thinner after sprouting. Cover seeds with compost or soil up to half an inch.
6. Cucumbers
Prepare the soil for cucumbers by adding nitrogen and potassium fertiliser to encourage their strong harvests. If feasible, grow cucumbers along a fence in the sun. The barrier provides climbing assistance and shelter. Try planting near corn. Corn will protect cucumbers from wind and trap heat.
7. Kale
Kale, a superfood, is tough and can thrive in many temperatures. It can be collected at several stages, and the buds and blossoms are tasty! Mustards and collards are easy-to-grow kale relatives.
Kale will grow until it gets too hot if planted in early spring or summer. Southerners should plant again in the fall. Kale gets sweeter after two frosts, another plus. Kale can be baked, stir-fried, or steamed. Add to salads, smoothies, omelettes, casseroles, or anywhere spinach goes.
8. Swiss Chard
The beetroot family includes Swiss chard–or “chard”. It thrives in cool and warm climates. A nutritional superfood with vitamins A, C, and K, minerals, phytonutrients, and fibre, and a stunning rainbow of colours!
9. Beetroots
Never live until you’ve tried homegrown beetroots. We mean it! Nothing beats delicate, garden-fresh beetroots boiled or grilled.
Beetroot seedlings must always be thinned since the unusual seed capsules contain two or three seeds. Sow seed capsules 1 inch deep and 4 inches apart.
Any time until tennis ball-sized, harvest the roots. While waiting for them to grow, try some leaves. They yield two harvests from one plant, like spinach.
10. Zucchini (summer squash)
Summer squash and zucchini need 3–6 feet between them in warm, well-composted soil and lots of sun. Your zucchini will soon be so abundant that you’ll leave them on neighbours’ doorsteps! Water the soil, not the leaves, to avoid powdery mildew.
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