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  • #1

    Easiest crop to grow

    Hi All,

    I'm new here, and this year I've gone mad on growing anything and everything.

    But what I want to ask is what do you all think is the easiest crop/veg/fruit to grow.

    Any reason will do, either because it requires little effort/watering, or produces large yields, or always has good germination.
    The more help a man has in his garden, the less it belongs to him.
    William M. Davies
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    dwarf green beans..........no faffing with poles for climbing, but if you pick them regularly you get a good yield

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    • #3
      I'd second the dwarf beans, they were excellent last year.

      Lettuce, no problem apart from keeping slugs and snails away. Radishes are another quick crop.

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      • #4
        Effort to yield you will be hard pushed to beat ... Cress but I suspect that was not what you meant so probably onions/shallots,poke a hole drop a set in & away it goes
        He who smiles in the face of adversity,has already decided who to blame

        Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity

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        • #5
          I'm voting for squashes and courgettes as long as you can grow them on good rich soil and water them from time to time (a task I enjoy because I get so excited at the flowers / fruit).
          Whooops - now what are the dogs getting up to?

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          • #6
            Cress and radish. These I give to my children to grow.
            Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better...Albert Einstein

            Blog - @Twotheridge: For The Record - Sowing and Growing with a Virgin Veg Grower: Spring Has Now Sprung...Boing! http://vvgsowingandgrowing2012.blogs....html?spref=tw

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            • #7
              Radish maybe? Garlic is a no brainer too. Stick it in ground, ignore, wait, harvest. Simples.

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              • #8
                Runner beans... easy for kids to get involved with from sowing to picking and eating
                Its Grand to be Daft...

                https://www.youtube.com/user/beauchief1?feature=mhee

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                • #9
                  Garlic has got to be the easiest.
                  I put it in, ignore it until the leaves start to turn, then pull it up.
                  Onions are the same if grown from sets, from seed takes a bit of mollycoddling to get them off and going... then I ignore them again.

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                  • #10
                    For ease I'd go with courgettes , but they do like a fair bit of the wet stuff. For me personally I have trouble with radishes .......I know, I know I can all hear you laughing .......
                    S*d the housework I have a lottie to dig
                    a batch of jam is always an act of creation ..Christine Ferber

                    You can't beat a bit of garden porn

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                    • #11
                      Spring onions are also easy I sow a few every couple of weeks.
                      Location....East Midlands.

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                      • #12
                        I have problems with them as well........

                        But this year I've tried some purple spring onions and so far so good........
                        S*d the housework I have a lottie to dig
                        a batch of jam is always an act of creation ..Christine Ferber

                        You can't beat a bit of garden porn

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                        • #13
                          Not been at it long, but so far i'd say Garlic. I would say courgettes as well, as long as you don't keep chopping off the flowers like a friend i donated a plant to did lol

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                          • #14
                            Spring onion for me, no doubt. Radishes also appear in no time

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                            • #15
                              Everything will grow bigger and better with the proper care and attention. It is easy to just bung in garlic and get a return but with the the correct care and some feeding the bulbs will be twice the size. Rhubarb gives a very good return after the first few years, The season has only just started and I have already had 3kg. Runner beans always give a very good return but they do need the ground preparing to get a maximum crop.

                              Ian

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