Gardening is a budget-friendly and rewarding hobby. If you’d like to start gardening and want to know which vegetables are easy to grow, read on! This list includes vegetable seeds that can be directly sown into your garden soil and some that can be grown indoors and transplanted. Let’s jump in!
Lettuce
Lettuce is one of the few crops that can be grown all year round. However, in hot weather, it should be shaded and harvested when smaller in size. With an infinite range of leaf shapes and green and red hues, you’ll never get tired of growing lettuce varieties. Leaf lettuce can be cut as they grow, and you can get several harvests from the same plant by snipping off what you need. If you want full heads of romaine lettuce to grow, thin them out, leaving 8 to 10 inches between the plants. You can save the delicate, small leaves for salads as you thin them.
Green Beans
All beans are fast growers and thrive in warm, moist soil. They’ll even grow in relatively low-quality soil since they fix nitrogen levels. In cool areas, snap beans are the easiest to grow. In hot regions, lima beans, southern peas, and asparagus beans are easy to grow.
Peas
If you want to grow peas, plant them as soon as the soil can be worked— ideally, two weeks before the last spring frost in your area. To harvest a continuous supply of peas during the summer, sow various peas with different maturity dates simultaneously. Then sow more seeds about two weeks later. Continue this pattern, sowing no later than mid-June.
Radishes
Radishes can be harvested in as little as 24 days after planting. Start planting them as soon as you can work the soil in spring. Sow each seed two inches apart or more. Cover the seeds with about half an inch of compost or soil, and reap crunchy radishes quickly! They can be interplanted with slower-growing vegetables too.
Carrots
Carrots are easy to grow as long as they’re planted in loose, sandy soil during the cooler periods of the growing season—spring and fall. Not all carrots are orange; varieties range from purple to white too.
Many beginners grow short and deformed carrots. This is due to poor, rocky soil. That’s why it’s essential to use soft, loose soil that drains well.
