Is there a fool-proof veg?

[Jimmy]

Courgettes seem fairly simple.
Yellow are best.
Jimmy

[Thelma Sanders]

Any of the same veggies that we start the children off with in the school garden, early potatoes, short peas and beans and courgettes and squash. All are fairly bomb-proof They all like carrots when they work, but they can be a bit hit and miss.

[1Bee]

Potatoes for quick impact and the magic of harvest time. Runner or french beans if sown late enough.

Courgettes or squash if they're prepared to take care of them.

I've always found radishes easy, but soon found out on here that some people have the opposite experience. Similarly, I can never grow spring onions, but others find them simple...

[bikermike]

another vote for spuds (esp earlies) - especially as lowest maintenance. Rhubarb is indestructible, but does get rather big and imposing

Are we allowed to suggest bought plants? I'd say that's a good start for new gardeners? if so, courgettes and strawberries.

[Bluenowhere]

I’d suggest Courgette and rocket.

[Bluenowhere]

Rubarb......ha ha, I planted three varieties last year, all succumbed to the late frost and died/hid for the rest of the year. Assuming they had rotted I decided to turn the bed to asparagus. Found two rather sad looking ?corms? planted them in pots of mpc in cold frame, always like to give things a second chance, and now finally producing leaves, they are going to live in the pots for a while I think. So I’d argue that they are easy, seem to need a lot of tlc to get going.

[lottie dolly]

Definatly spuds,lettuce grown as cut and come again,stump rooted carrots,beetroot,all seeds rely on being sown at the apropriate season,spacing and depth of sowing,and when or not to water,if only a patio,grow in containers for the first season,get the feel of things,and the joy of growing something you can see growing,pick and taste the difference,climbing beans,french or other,will either climb up a few canes,the best aproach is ask on here,like,how and when to grow carrots in a bucket,start small,get confidence first,as we have all learned over the years,it's not always so straight fowards.

[Penellype]

For just bung in and forget I'd have to say onions from sets.

[ESBkevin]

Chard, Rhubarb, Raspberries, Courgette, Potatos, strawberries, spinach.

Nothing is bomb proof in all locations but those should produce something of a harvest with not too much work and little knowledge.

[rary]

Don't want to take this thread off at a tangent, or folks might think I am as bad as VC but would you class rhubarb as a veg?
and Feral007 thanks for that bit of information I never new that the different colours of chard made a difference

[Potstubsdustbins]

Not sure what I would suggest BUT there must be fool proof veg I.........grow them

[emarisa28]

Courgettes.....and beetroot, they are pretty easy and quick aren't they?

[Greenleaves]

Definitely beetroot and courgettes, I would also add beans, broad, French and runner

[Penellype]

Hmm, I have dreadful trouble with beetroot, and unless I put copper rings round the stems of courgettes when I plant them out I tend to find they have been eaten by slugs within a few days.

[Ani]

Lettuce (or any other salad crop) - in pots where slugs and snails can't get to them.
Courgette
Strawberries (from plants, not seeds)

NOT radishes. They are the only thing I can't grow no matter what I do. Absolutely frustrating.