Easy Vegetables To Grow In Your Home Garden

Growing your food is one of the best things you can do. It is not just a way to get more nutrients but a relaxing and educational activity that gets you connected to nature. Caring for your plants even if it is just a few herbs or veggies gives you a sense of accomplishment and nothing tastes better than food you grew yourself. Whether you have a big backyard, a small patio or access to a community garden, you can have homegrown food without having to be a master gardener.

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In this guide is listed the easiest veggies, fruits and herbs to grow so you can get started on your gardening journey and have food to harvest at home!

Asparagus

Asparagus is an odd duck of garden vegetables, but that does not mean it is hard to grow. For one thing, it is a perennial, meaning you plant it once, and it comes back for as many as 15 years. Another difference is you harvest it first thing in the spring but then continue to care for the plants through the rest of the growing season.

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For a dedicated asparagus patch, start with crowns, which are one-year roots that are far easier than starting from seed. After planting, you will have to wait 1 or 2 years before you can harvest, but it will be so worth it. 

Bell Peppers

Sweet-tasting bell peppers ripen into a variety of colours: green, yellow, orange, and red. According to a study published in Molecules. 2021, on the nutrition front, they are high in potassium, great for your skin, and rich in vitamin C and vitamin A. Of course, they taste great in salads, stuffed, and even for snacking.

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In the garden, warm-season bell peppers thrive in full sun and well-draining, moist soil. Plant them at least a week after the last frost. After harvesting, store bell peppers in the refrigerator in a plastic bag for up to 10 days or the freezer for up to a year.

Broccoli

Broccoli is easy to grow, especially when compared to other vegetables. They are a cool-season crop that can thrive in a variety of soil types. Best of all, they need minimal care and are packed with nutrients.

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To keep your broccoli plants flourishing, keep their soil moist and allow a foot or more between them so they do not compete for resources. They will reach picking status in a little under 2 months. Harvest the main head first, and then pick the side shoots.

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Carrots

These cool-season root vegetables are best started by seed because their sensitive root systems do not take well to transplanting. They love to be planted in loosely packed, well-composted soil where they get full sun.

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Carrots take about 70 days to mature, but it is worth waiting for optimal sweetness and bright colour. Since carrots grow best in the ground or raised beds, ensure they are protected from roving deer, rabbits, and other wildlife that find carrot tops delicious.

Cucumbers

Plant this warm-season crop several weeks after your last frost, and these fast-growing vegetables can be ready to pick as soon as 6 weeks later. When you trellis cucumbers, the plants climb, giving you more garden-bed space for other vegetables. Once your cucumbers start to produce, you will likely get enough to pickle, so you can savour the home-grown goodness well beyond the season.

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Garlic

If you are looking to start growing one of the easiest edible plants, look no further than your grocery store. A head of garlic has many cloves, and each of them can be planted. Simply bury a garlic clove, skin-on, in a shallow bed, about 1 inch deep with its pointy tip facing the sky.

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With water and a few days, a green shoot surfaces, climbing at a surprising rate. In time, that underground clove grows into a new head of garlic for use in the kitchen. Do not forget to save some of those homegrown cloves for next season's planting.