How many of you grow food? I used to, but it’s more difficult to find the time these days. However, the way things are, I’m thinking of getting back to it! What are your low maintenance, high yield go to veggies? #GardensHour
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Best starting line is spices, herbs, and sauces. Herbs are one of the best bang for your buck crops to grow. They're easy to grow, can be low space, and save lots of money long term. I also love growing peppers to make sauces and spices
Peas, snow peas, sweet peas, I have growing in my house. Big Daddy peppers are high yielding,can be grown inside or out. Green beans can also be grown inside or outside. I am growing lettuce, kale, bok choy, turnips,and romaine lettuce inside. Warm weather I grow outside other vegetables like squash
Broad beans are so easy, especially the dwarf varieties that do not need staking. The Sutton is very good and tasty - can also be autumn sown and quite hardy.
I lived 60 years hating broad beans but then I grew my own, and my oh my, they are one of my favourite veg now, love them. I threw some in the freezer without blanching or anything last summer, when I used them last week they were perfect.
Blanch and pop the larger ones. Blend with roasted elephant garlic olive oil lime salt to taste. Cream cheese and a little sour cream and you have a spread and a dip that beets any other!
They were, and you know those skins around them which are always chewy on bought broad beans, well despite being in the freezer they weren't chewy at all.
Arugula, basil, thyme, rosemary, tomatoes (esp cherry and Roma), Bibb lettuce. Raspberries and peppers are my favorites. Expensive at the store, easy and cheap to grow and also tasty! Love all the other suggestions you’re getting!
Pick up three cheap milk crates.Fill with soil & stack. Pick out a few good potato at store, let them start to grow eyes n roots in a dark place. Cut out each eye and squish them into holes in milk crates. Harvest when leaves die.
Cut some small holes on 1 side of a soil bag. Turn over & open up the whole other side. Spread half with lettuce seed. Next week, spread more seed into other. Continuous lettuce.
Let's not forget our beautiful healthy "weeds".. I love Lamb's Quarter and it actually has more iron than Spinach. Pretty good about reproducing itself too LOL
I just grow stuff I love eating that's expensive to buy. Plus I grow potatoes and onions for taste and quality. So lots of fruit bushes, raspberries and rhubarb which all freeze well. Veg wise courgettes, broad beans, french beans, tomatoes, cucumbers and big fat webb lettuce etc
Depends really… I could give over a couple of decent chunks of border, and there’s an area I can make a new one. I don’t have a large bed area #GardensHour
Also carrots, tomatoes, peppers, aubergine (eggplant) - you can grow them all in pots and squeeze into any available space! Put courgettes in the flower border & let them ramble. #gardenshour
I started growing runner beans a few years ago - up the fence. Nice flowers & nice beans - so long as you pick them before they get too big #GardensHour 🌱
Mesclin mix. Parsley (always), green onions, chives, spinach. All of these can grow with some full sun, but not all day full sun. Water them, give them as much sun as possible, and they will grow.
The thing is, we need these things in Winter. So setting up a growing area/shelves is key. Consider SPROUTS and baby Veggies (I find microgreens wasteful) Best 4 sprouts: rainbow radishes, broccoli, spicy mustard and mung beans. I'm also growing peppers, lettuces, green onions-I just eat the greens
Chilli peppers & sweet peppers are very easy in pots. Tomatoes need a little more looking after but are worth it. For borders, Potatoes are low maintenance #GardensHour
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Just need to stop the slugs and caterpillars demolishing them