What Vegetables Are The Easiest to Start Growing?!

Greens of any sort are really easy...lettuces, swiss chard, collards, etc. Spinach can be tricky though, depending on the variety. They grow pretty fast in the right conditions too, so you could have a fresh salad from your garden within 3 weeks or so of planting. Tomatoes & bell peppers are easy, but just make sure you get cages for them. String beans are super easy to grow & take care of and they produce a lot for the little space they take up too. Herbs are easy since a lot of them kind of grow like weeds anyway. Some herbs are also good to plant amongst your veggies or flowers too (instead of their own separate herb garden) since they keep certain bugs away. If you eat/make a lot of salads, a packet or two of Nasturtium seeds might be good. I always plant them along the edge of my garden. Both the flowers & the leaves are edible. They taste sorta similar to black pepper, only milder. I like the leaves on sandwiches and salads, and the flowers look really pretty on top of a salad if you're serving it to company. Celery is easy, and there's nothing like fresh celery for cooking. It's so much stronger & greener...nothing like what you buy at the grocery store. I always dry the leaves & chop up & freeze the stalks that are left at the end of the season so I rarely buy celery in the winter. Garlic is easy if planted in the right conditions. The same goes for any root vegetables or onions & such.

Foxes are omnivorous, but I think they mainly eat grasses, fruits, and grains as their herbivorous side. I don't know if they'd be interested in lettuces & such or not. I live close to a wooded area, so I have the occasional skunk, possum, or raccoon in my yard at night, and they never really bother my garden. The raccoons & possums actually go for my compost bin. There are also a few neighborhood cats that come around, but they don't do any harm. If they go near the garden at all, all they do is nap between the rows in the shadier area, probably because it's a little cooler. Birds are only really a problem when you first plant your garden because they might dig out some seeds before they get a chance to grow. As far as already grown plants, they're more apt to go after fruits. I have a mulberry bush (more like a tree b/c it's never been pruned) in my yard and the birds & squirrels love that, which is fine by me, b/c I really don't like mulberries anyway. The birds go after my black raspberry bushes only a little bit, and they don't really take much. Besides, once they start to ripen, I'm out there at least every other day picking them, so that doesn't give them much chance anyway. :) If you're really concerned about birds, get a squirrel-proof bird feeder (or a few, since it sounds like you have a lot of space) and keep them well fed so they'll stay away from *your* food. That actually might be why I don't have aproblem with birds eating up my garden really. A greenhouse isn't really necessary, but if you can afford it, I say go for it. :)

Salad ingredients are about the easiest, eg lettuce, tomatoes, radishes, peppers and they can all be grown in troughs or pots. You can buy special bags for growing potatoes, but you will need to start soon for these.

A greenhouse would be a good idea to protect your produce from British weather, cats, foxes and birds. Slugs are also a problem and will eat anything green, which is why I prefer to grow in containers rather than straight in the ground. Yes, slugs do climb pots but prefer to eat green stuff at ground level.

Most vegetables are pretty easy to grow. It will depend on where you live/climate what grows well in your area as well as when you should plant it. Your local gardening store should have not only the plants, but information on sun/shade, how much water, how long until they produce food, etc. I suggest a smaller gardening store than a big Home Depot or Lowes for more accurate information.
Yes, animals can be a factor but there are usually safe things you can do to keep them from eating your produce. Your gardening store should be good for that as well.

Herbs are the best way to start--they are simple to grow from seed, especially chives and gardening-labour-wise they are also the most low maintenance.

Herbs are expensive to buy in the shops so try growing them--they are superb when you can harvest them from your back door.

Green beans are actually pretty quick & easy to grow.

Root vegetables are the easiest especialy potatoes,carrots and onions.

Grow carrots, they're nice

Best thing to start off is preparing the ground making up a space for your vegetables, checking the PH, drainage and fertilising too.

Some vegetables can be grown in the ground or bags, I grew my potatoes in the ground last year but my garden is not big enough so going to grow in bags this year leaving room for other vegetables.

Onions
Carrots
Potatoes
Kale
Parsnip
Cabbage
Peas
Salad
Tomatoes in a make shift greenhouse!!

Above are the easiest ones I reckon to start off with and progress from that.

Some good books, have the first one and its a good book which will be my bible for this year!!

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Grow-Your-Own-Ve…

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Edible-Garden-Ho…

Addition: The only thing foxes and cats will do is defecate on the uncovered ground, cats wont poo in their own garden. Cover the ground when and if they spoil the ground last thing you want to be doing is pulling up weeds and finding an unwanted present. Netting is the first practical and other things you can use are sensor spray's which give off a sound as well as a spray of water to scare the cats away from the patch.

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