young green fingers

[flowerpower3]

hi my name is aidan i have just started gardening and need to know what flower and veg are easiest to grow

[RedThorn]

I always found peas, beans, rolet little gems, courgettes and potatoes easy and rewarding

[flowerpower3]

thanks how easy are carrots to grow

[RedThorn]

Perfect we getting somewhere, yup carrots too, do you like lettuces? they also easy and they grow real quickly. If you want to use the greenhouse, perhaps buy a couple of tomato plants for this season and from next year, you can get a head start on chillis and tomatoes and cucumbers

[Peas'n'Kews]

Hi Flowerpower3 and welcome to the Vine!

i agree with RT, lettuce easy and rewarding. Also legumes (beans and peas) of any kind...

Radishes are both quick and easy, if you like 'em.

Some say spring onions are supposed to be easy, but I always have trouble.

And maybe some herbs? Chives are REALLY easy and self seed everywhere.... Thyme and sage are also easy, but maybe not so much from seed....

Hope this helps

Has anyone warned you we tend to the nut-side here? Watch out for serious teasing 'bout the surname.

Is you avatar related in any way to Big Mally?????

[veggiechicken]

Hello FP3 and welcome from me too. You should concentrate on growing the things you like to eat, that way you'll enjoy the work that you need to put into gardening. Some veggies are easier than others, I grow mixed salad leaves for example. The seed packets contain lots of different seeds and you just sprinkle on the ground, give them a bit of a rake around and some water and watch this space. In a few weeks the seedlings will appear and soon they'll be large enough to pick, either as individual leaves or by taking the whole plant. I pick the leaves separately as that gives the plant chance to continue growing and you can pick from it for longer.
You could also buy a couple of tomato plants and put those in your greenhouse. They are quite easy and there's lot of advice on this Forum about looking after them. Have a search and see what you can find.
Finally, enjoy it, because growing your own can be a lot of fun!

[flowerpower3]

thanks everyone for your help

[Bigmallly]

Welcome to the vine son...............like others have said, grow what you like to eat. It may be a tad late to grow some things from seed but by all means give it a try. Have a look at the thread "What I did today" it will give you excellent info into what other grapes are doing.....good luck.

[flowerpower3]

thanks bigmallly u like gorillas yes?

[rustylady]

Flipping heck, you're a long way north aren't you? What's your weather like?

[flowerpower3]

all right i guess not to cold but can get windy sometimes but the sun is offtent out

[Jeanied]

Hi there - and welcome! Glad you are starting young!

When I asked the gardening club at school what they wanted to grow, they were all keen to grow potatoes and radishes. It is a bit late to start potatoes but you could try a few in a tub in the greenhouse as an experiment. We were lucky on our garden club plot because there were 4 potato plants growing already when we started in April.

I am not sure all of the club really like radishes - so we are going to have a taste test before everyone sows loads of them.

Other things we are growing are basil, strawberries, carrots, courgettes, tomatoes, sunflowers, sweetcorn, beetroot, lettuce and spring onions. And a few callaloo for some grannies who want to cook some!

[Two_Sheds]

thanks how easy are carrots to grow

Not as easy as you might think: they need light sandy soil, warmth and don't compete well with weeds. They're also very prone to being attacked by the carrot root fly maggot

what flower and veg are easiest to grow

Don't ask that question until you've made a list of what you like to eat.
Mooli are easy, but do you want to eat them?

[flowerpower3]

don't no what a mooli

[Matt94]

hi aiden and welcome - mooli are a root crop (they look like long white raddish), do you mind if i ask how old you are aiden? as you might be our youngest member!