Top 10 easy to grow vegetables

Now is the time to think about growing your own vegetables. Cheaper than the supermarket and usually better tasting, you’ll get great satisfaction out of growing and eating your own veg! Here are our top ten suggestions:

1. Salad

There is a vast range of lettuce available to grow from seed with different textures and flavours. From kale to chicory, or mixed lettuce seeds, you’ll have a great salad base all year round, as well as using it in soups.

2. Spring onions

Spring onions are quick and easy to grow easy and quick and add real spice to salads. You can grow spring onions in pots, or sow them into the ground or a vegetable trug all the summer

3. Radishes

Radishes grow easily. Sow seeds every fortnight throughout the summer to add colour and crunch to salads.

4. Potatoes

People think potatoes are hard to grow, but they can be planted in bags half filled with compost in March/April and when you see green shoots appear above the soil, just cover them up with more compost. Keep doing this until the bag is full, and then all you need to do is water them! Two or three months later, when the leaves turn yellow, it’s time to harvest your potatoes and start eating them.

5.  Peas

Peas should be sown between March and June. You need to support their stems, which you can do with chicken wire or netting at each end of the row. Fresh peas taste amazingly good.You’ll be amazed at how good fresh peas taste and the more that you pick them, the more they produce!

6. Broad Beans

Plant broad beans in spring in small pots with compost, and within a few weeks, you will have plants to tarsnfer to the garden, or you can plant them initially in the ground if you prefer. From June onwards,  you should have a great crop of very tasty beans.

7. Runner Beans

Runner beans like to climb, so they need plenty of space and should be supported with a frame. You need to keep watering them and you should get a crop for the whole summer. You just need to remember to pick them regularly.

8. Onions

Onions require almost no maintenance. Just plant onion bulbs in soil in either spring or autumn and leave them alone!  to it! Once you see the leaves turn yellow, you lift them up, dry them in the sun and store them.

9. Tomatoes

Tomato plants grow faster than almost anything else. Some varieties will grow in hanging baskets and window boxes.  You can grow them from seed or buy tomato plants.

10. Beetroot

Beetroot is great raw in salads or cooked as a vegetable. Sew it sown into the ground from March to July and in a couple of months, they will be ready to eat.