Being a beginning gardener can be difficult and daunting. I wanted to set the record straight that it doesn’t have to scare you and there is still a lot you can grow! Int his 3 part mini series, we will cover the best crops you can grw for each skill level.
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so excited to start my own garden this spring!
I planted shelling peas outside
. When they got pea pods on the plants they got a white mold and within a few days it killed the plants.
Suuuper helpfull!
I bought pea, chard, sage, beets and andive seeds!
So exciting
I spent the last several months in East TN. The leaf lettuce that I planted last fall grew through the winter, freezing temps, snow, ice, sleet…and is still growing strong. I use it as a cut and come again crop. So easy for a beginner. It is in the planter along the sidewalk in front of the house.
Hmm. I bought lots of carrots for a 'fall' garden but only got some little ones. I will try a window box of the parisian ones
Do a growing guide on sweet potatoes
Put green purslane into my garden? I've been trying to get rid of the stuff for the past twelve or thirteen years, and the neighborhood rabbits keep eating it and, ah, redistributing seeds. I'll never, ever be green-purslane free!
Gardening is like life…failures are disappointment, but a learning opportunity.
Can you put links to the vegetables you mentioned? Or a list of them?
Things I wish I knew a few years ago. But still very helpful. Going looking for the next one, intermediate.
I got dill from a nursery and a month later it was filled with aphids
yes identifying purslane is VERY important becuz there is a very toxic look alike..forgot the name but yea. Look into it lol.
Is beefsteak tomato a good beginner tomatoes it's my first crop and I'm getting mixed results
Please do not tell anyone what they can or cannot grow from seed! People, you want to grow something you like, just DO it! Get the seeds do your research and try! Do not let anyone tell you what you can or cannot grow with or without experience. Please just go play in your garden!
great video! I just needed that!!! thanks!!
I have to always remember that starting times are different in MI than for me in CA. By the time you start your cabbage mine should be well underway, correct?
Chives can be hard to start. Cabbage – bugs and rabbits love cabbage too.
If growing cucumbers for the first time stick with bush viriates.
I can't get purslane to grow in Cleveland.
I spent a fortune this year and filled my beds all organics materials. Potting soil, Better Home and Garden compost, Home Depot compost, cow manure, so I planted potatoes, and collards and they all came up beautiful. Three weeks later my collards got a fungus or blight and I know I bought blight in these expensive products. Now I cannot grow anything in this bed. Help!!!! I am upset and mad about it and I cannot get rid of it. Any ideas??
Great crops for beginners! I like how you explained why. I accidentally grew lots of purslane last year – it came up in my pots and acted as a really great ground cover mulch – and good for salads and things too. Other easy to grow and good tasting edible "weeds" are dandelion, chickweed, red clover, amaranth/pigweed, lambsquarter, plantain, common mallow and pineapple weed.
Growing peas were nearly impossible for me. I live in an area with continental climate but with Mediterranean precipitation regime. I can't grow them in winter because winters are generally mild but always even for a one day temperature drops to -18 degree Celsius or less, so growing something in winter is very hard and in spring some heatwaves or frosts are effecting the region and summers are dry and very hot. So I can still grow beans tomatoes melons etc after frost season passed but never peas.
My swiss chard keeps getting leaf miners even if i destroy the affected leaves
Potatoes ought to be on this list. I've had more than my share of gardening frustrations and failures over the years, but potatoes are hands down the easiest crop I've ever grown. You can either buy seed potatoes, or just take any potatoes from the store that have sprouted on their own and put them in the ground. They can be planted early in the season, and multiple times in the year due to their fast maturation. They're highly resistant to deer and groundhogs, since the plant is toxic. They require very little water, and don't like being overwatered. They can easily be companioned with kale and other leafy greens, or anything else that has shallow roots.
The only challenge is that potatoes are heavy feeders, and they grow best in loose (and preferably acidic) soil, so you still need to work and properly amend the soil. That said, they'll grow fine in compost. You can easily grow them in containers, as long as the container is big enough. I would recommend potatoes to any beginner.
I strongly disagree with cucumbers, everything else is ok, but those plants aren't that easy for beginners. ALso isn't true that mature fruits are bitter ot bad, i always try to pick them more mature, when they become yellow, becouse they are way more tasty and good to eat. ALso picking cucumbers from a plant is very easy, you have like a week or more to pick them, they grow fast and you can pick them when you desire .
Camomile self seeds nicely too. I have all kinds of plants.
Great overview! I’ll put together a list or easy to grow plants for next season based on this information.
Just what I needed to know for beginner success! Thank you!