“Get Your Garden Off To A Flying Start With These 10 Easy To Grow Vegetables.”

Plant these easy to grow vegetables and your garden will be flourishing in no time.

The basic rules apply for all of these vegetables. Keep the soil weed free and keep the plants watered.

Radish

If you are looking for a no fail vegetable then growing radishes is for you.

Plant in succession from early springthrough to late fall/autumn.

The seeds sprout very quickly and the radishes are grown and ready to eat in about 4 weeks.

Take a look at these tasty radish recipes for new ways to eat your home grown radishes.

Tomato

Contrary to popular belief tomatoes are easy to grow!

For hassle free tomatoes, buy seedlings and transplant them into your garden once all risk of frost has passed.

Bush varieties need minimal support, but it’s not too much work to tie in vine tomato plants as they grow.

Don’t overfeed or you will get too much foliage and not much fruit!

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Cucumber

So easy to grow and producing lots of fruit, one or two plants will give you plenty of cukes.

Start from seed in the spring and plant out once the weather has warmed up.

Provide some support for them to grow up and tie the vines as needed.

If you are faced with a glut of cukes in the summer try this recipe for cucumber relish. It’s delicious!

Peas

Peas are really easy vegetables to grow.

Plant them in front of a fence or a trellis so they have something to climb against.

Onions

The easiest way to grow onions is to plant onion sets. These are small onions which develop into much bigger ones later on.

Plant out once the danger of frost has passed.

Green Beans

You have a choice between planting bush or pole varieties.

Plant seeds in the spring or start them early in pots indoors and transplant when the weather has warmed up.

Bush beans need a simple stake for support and will give a couple of good crops.

Pole beans need either a trellis or an arrangement of poles and strings to offer adequate support.

Pole beans produce a larger crop than the bush varieties. If you harvest the beans daily, they will keep producing more for several weeks.

If your plants are producing more than you can eat, then you can easily freeze the surplus.

Lettuce

Lettuce is one of those easy to grow vegetables that just takes care of itself once it is planted.

It prefers cooler temperatures as it will become bitter in the heat of summer and will soon bolt (go to seed).

Start from seed or buy some young plants. They can go into the garden once the frosts have passed.

Plant loose leaf lettuce where it will recieve some shade (in between tomato plants works well) and you can be sure of plenty of tasty lettuce, right through until winter.

Potatoes

Plant seed potatoes early in thespring. expose the tubers to light for a couple of weeks so that they start to sprout.

Dig out a trench and set the tubers in place with the sprouts pointing upwards. Cover with some of the soil from the trench.

As the plant grows cover with more soil so that only the top 3 inches of growth is above the soil. Cover over one more time to fill the trench back up with soil.

Harvest the new tender potatoes, 2 to 3 weeks after the plants flower or leave until the plant yellows and dies back to obtain a larger crop.

Summer Squash

Squash seeds sprout quickly and theplants grow at an amazing speed. make sure you have enough space to grow these plants whose leaves reach the size of dinner plates!

You will need to feed them and they need plenty of water. The fruit sets quicky, you will see it on the female flowers. Pick while it is young and tender.

Choose from the many types of squash and pick one that is right for you.

Leafy Greens

Kale and Swiss Chard are easy to grow and have a long season. They will still be giving you leaves for salads or cooking well into the winter.

Start from seed and transplant once the frosts have passed.

So there you have a list of 10 easy to grow vegetables. But what about some easy to grow fruit?

Blackberries are so easy to grow, almost like a weed! Plant a small bush and it will get bigger every year, producing more and more fruit as time goes on!

Strawberries are another plant that will keep growing (producing baby plants each year). So if you have room you can have a strawberry patch full of delicious berries!

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