#Easygrowing

Radish seed pods are super underrated. Like peppery snap peas and very #easygrowing.

Farmer Jesse of No-Till Growers released a video with a few #easygrowing food options. His pics are in the first part of the video: youtu.be/1Y6tVY2AB2I?...

He is also incredibly knowledgeable. If you want to get serious about growing food, you should watch his videos.

My vote for #easygrowing has got to be a bush green bean! The first food crop that made me feel successful and encouraged me to grow more.

They produce for the whole season, I’ve never seen any pests on them, you can eat fresh, pickle, and easily save seed for free plants the next year.

Pile of green beans harvested last year from our garden. These were from a bush bean variety and cooked fresh for a pasta dish.

A basket of snap peas we harvested from our garden last year. We almost always eat them raw as a snack or in a salad.

#Easygrowing food:

BEANS & snap peas 🌱
-Huge variety
-Protein!
-Eat fresh or let dry to store/plant next year
-Nitrogen fixer (helps soil/feeds other plants) but gotta leave roots in the ground after harvest
-Bush beans for anywhere
-Pole/snap peas for small spaces with something to climb

A garlic harvest spread out. It is about 100 heads of garlic here.

Elephant garlic, which isn’t technically a real garlic it is used the same, about the size of my fist. I grow a couple each year mostly for fun. The flavor is very mild if you prefer that. They do grow much larger though and can require more space.

#Easygrowing food:

Garlic 🧄 🌱
-Grow time about 9 months, it’s long
-it’s garlic
-Can use scapes and leaves also
-Can make a garlic powder from the paper
-Low space needed
-Long storage, especially hardneck
-Homegrown tastes so dang good
-Replant some next year

#zone8b

My vote for #easygrowing is cherry tomatoes and green onions. Herbs are also easy...but can become invasive.

Base of my Swiss Chard in February. Thick white and red stems with big, broad leaves.

Same Swiss Chard from above after a week of constant frost, still going strong and producing even in the heart of PNW winter.

Same Swiss Chard frosted over and enduring.

#Easygrowing food:

Swiss Chard 🌱
-Grow time about 60 days
-Continual harvest
-Pretty red, yellow, pink, white stems
-Hardy, tough sucker of a plant
-Biennial
-Not bitter like many greens
-Not farty tasting like kale can be (sorry kale I love you)
-Stem and leaf edible

#zone8b

Many gardeners from beginner through experienced are shopping for seeds now. Jon’s thread of #easygrowing is a great idea! Adding a few of my easy to grow favorites in my comments.

Tree onion - Wikipedia

Bonus #easygrowing plant similar in use to chives if you have garden space, Egyptian Walking Onions/Tree Onion.

These superheroes have stems like green onions. They grow tiny onions at the top, then fall over and replant themselves to make more onions. Magic. Low effort high reward.

Vibrant green chives growing in a cluster in my garden with a couple dark purple flower buds.

#Easygrowing food:

Chives 🌱
-30-60 grow time
-Great companion with other plants (can help deter pests)
-Perennial
-Beautiful flowers, pollinator
-Can infuse vinegar with the flowers for salad dressing
-Can keep stems going in a cup of water

#zone8b

Part of a harvest from just 2 zucchini plants. I still have some of these frozen in for stir fry and bread making.

#Easygrowing food:

Zucchini (Courgette) 🌱
-45-55 day growth
-High producer
-Harvest young, big are edible but tougher
-Water at the base
-Squash bugs suck, but generally show up towards end of life of the plant for me
-You may get tired of eating it

#zone8b

A couple dozen flamboyant radishes pulled from my garden last spring.

#Easygrowing food:

Radishes 🌱
-Fast grower (20-60 days)
-Entire plant is edible (seed pods like peppery snap peas, check out rat's tail radish)
-Many varieties (Icicle, pink beauty, flamboyant, etc.)
-Grows in small spaces or between plants
-Early pollinator
-Tough plant

#zone8b

Starting a thread to share #easygrowing food options for anyone looking to start gardening. Most suggestions are commonly available seeds/starts and can grow in something as simple as a bucket.

Today was plant care day, this is my beefsteak begonia, it is one of the easiest to grow and has nice dark green shiny leaves with deep red on the underside. It is one of my favorites. #beefsteakbegonia #plantcareday #easygrowing