Easy to grow vegetables.
When starting off a vegetable garden you will want to begin with easy vegetables to grow to almost guarantee a decent crop for your first time.
Grow in the ground or if you are short of space plant pots or the window ledge.
List of 10 of the best.
1. Cress. This must be the absolutely most easy vegetable to grow. Usually grown indoors in flat containers with just some damp kitchen towel or blotting paper, you simply cannot go wrong. Cress, like mustard, grows very quickly and is the ideal for beginners.
2. Lettuce. Again, lettuce can be grown inside or out, in containers or in the vegetable patch. Try growing a smaller lettuce which grows more quickly.
3. Radishes. They prefer a damper or colder climate, and need very little maintenance - simply thin them out sufficiently to ensure there is enough space for the bulbs to develop.
4. Swiss Chard. Chard is not fussy about the ground and needs almost no care apart from thinning out and weeding to begin with. Chard also looks nice, especially the variety with red stems, and both the leaf and stem can be eaten.
5. Peas & Beans. Runner beans do offer more yield in the same space (because they grow upwards!) and you can experiment with growing the peas or beans over arches, creating a tunnel of runner beans through which the children can walk or make a bean tee-pee! [a plan will be out soon]
6. Carrots. Providing you keep to a few simple rules, growing carrots is easy. They prefer a cooler climate and can be planted as soon as the frost is past and the ground is workable. Plant along side onions and the carrot fly will stay away [this works in reverse as well]
7. Potatoes. Though often not considered to be an easy to grow vegetable, potatoes actually are as long as they are banked up and watered frequently. You can grow potatoes in containers which means they don’t take up much space for a decent crop.
8. Spinach. Spinach prefers cooler climates so is ideal planted in early spring or autumn, and like chard leaves can be picked off and used and the plant will just keep on growing.
9. Onions. Your best bet is to plant onion sets. They are easy to handle and need almost no maintenance apart from initial weeding. Plant radishes together with the onions to mark out the rows, as they sprout faster. Onions like to be planted early on in the season, but there are also varieties which can be planted in late summer or early autumn for a winter or spring crop.
10 Beetroot. One of the easiest vegetables to grow. It can be planted as soon as the frost is over and just requires damp ground to germinate.
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