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I want to grow vegetables in my garden and teach my child how to grow them however everything I have ever tried to grow dies. What have you found to be the easiest to grow that doesn’t take too long and can be a fun way to get the kids involved?


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  • We are growing lettuce, beans, cucumbers, radish, eggplants plus parsley, basil etc. You need a trellis for beans and cucumbers but it’s do great picking home grown vegetables and herbs. Also put in potatoes which had sprouted and ended up with a few extra kilos. Worth while


  • Radishes are by far the quickest and easiest vegetable I’ve ever grown. It’s literally weeks between planting and eating


  • Pumpkin if you have the room


  • For taste – tomatoes, for freshness – lettuce. for the best ever tasting capsicums – orange wonders – you’ll wonder why these aren’t for sale, but I know it is because they are the hardest for the commercial growers to grow as they take longer to ripen so less of a turnover for them.


  • tomatoes, lettuce, any herbs, zucchini are all fast.


  • Herbs are a great place to start, we’ve also tried tomatoes, carrots, strawberries and pumpkin seeds with the kids. I’ve also got a lemon tree I want to replace as it doesn’t really provide much fruit anymore.


  • We grow eggplants, spinach, mint, coriander, green beans, green chilies, pumpkin and tomatoes.


  • i have mint, coriander , tomato. these are the easiet and low maintenance.


  • Mint! Grows so easily. My son used to pick leaves and make mint tea. It was a fun outdoor garden activity.


  • With enough love and care taken to prep your soil, there are so many veggies you can easily grow. Tomatoes, snow peas, lettuce, beans, potato, garlic, pots for herbs, and rosemary will go off if you give it a nice sunny spot in your yard. For the climbers, just make sure you have something they can grow against, and that you can jute tie to if it gets particularly windy in your area.


  • Lettuces are really easy to grow and last for quite a while if you just pick the outer leaves.


  • Radishes are the easiest veggie I’ve grown. Strawberries and raspberries are pretty easy too once through the first initial phases of set up. Good luck, it’s such a good feeling to eat your own produce


  • We have an enclosed veggie garden and have found it easy to grow silverbeet, mint, tomatoes, carrots and zucchini’s. Just make sure you spread out your carrots or they will be too squashed and grow all bendy.


  • Shallots are super easy, and same with mint and basil. Cherry tomatoes are easy and hardy. Lemon grass does well and lettuce. Sweet potatoes grows easily (but don’t plant it with other vegetables and keep in its own patch as it has creeper roots).


  • Spring onion are so easy to grow :)


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