The Easiest Plants to Grow in My Garden.

Who grows corn with 5sqft of spacing?

Last year we had 3 corn harvest, first in mid June.

We plant tight. 4 cornstalks per sqfoot, 8 inch spacing. Randomly scattered throughout garden. Not a lot less than 60 stalks.

Total ears from 3 plantings : around 500 ears.

We ate fresh corn all year.

Central Alabama.

I don't care for pickles, but thank you for the recipe! I might try it and give them to someone.

Are you talking bulb? I'm talking about the three cornered leek garlic plant.

Very hardy and great for bees

Are you talking bulb? I'm talking about the three cornered leek garlic plant.

Very hardy and great for bees

No problem. I like spicy, salty and vinegar foods so they are a good fit for me.

Pulled off & ate big, beautiful All Star strawberries today while tending my other 6 gardens.

Okay, I'll look into it. I tried some leek recently that came in a soup kit. I really liked it. I think it was the first time I ever had it. It would be a good idea to grow, thanks.

Egyptian Walking Onions. Plant 'em once & never need to again. Free onions for life !

I grew actual strawberries once. I didn't get many but they looked perfect. They weren't sweet either so I wondered if it was a soil problem.

Thanks! I'm going to order seeds soon from Amazon, I'll add them to the list. I need to get a spicy pepper variety kit.

Matt's Wild Cherry tomatoes-1 plant grows hundreds of these delicious red mini cherries and that's after birds & squirrels have their fill. Mine return every year and 1 plant can cover a 10 ft. x 4 ft. high fence. The plants are also quite ornamental. A sure winner !

Full sun and the right variety for your area.

Grow cayenne peppers and make your own hot sauce with vinegar & salt.

LOL - Mint is a lot of work...
to control.

I plan to.... I had so many nice spicy peppers last year.... I was in a bad place then. I gave a lot of them away. Hopefully I'll get my act together this year.

The rabbits and the squirrels will be all over everything.

It's a war.

Let it grow in the yard. Smells great after the lawnmower hits it. Keeps insects away.

A lot of info. @ my recent gardening thread here: Thread: Yearly How Does Your Garden Grow ? thread

I have a video of a squirrel in my bird feeder and a rabbit and a chipmunk on the ground eating everything he knocked down. All three at once. No birds in sight.

Thanks. The more info the better!

I have a dahlia plant that was left on the curb for free. I want to see that come back up this year. Hopefully it survived the winter.

That needs some good music to it!

I love growing perennial plants!
I used to run a produce farm and have almost completely given up on annual crops. (I still do peas, beans, herbs, carrots, beets, cukes zukes and melons, potatoes and maybe some hot peppers if I have space)

Sea Kale has replaced all other leafy brassicas as it returns year after year and a few leaves are all you need for a meal.

Hazel nuts! I started with 3 varieties for pollination, 5 years later I fill buckets with hazel nuts in the fall and plant them wherever I go.

Currents (black, red, pink) and gooseberries are hearty little bushes that just keep producing more every year. Great fresh, dried, jams or making wine!

Egyptian (walking) onions. I’ll never bother with any other onion, scallion or shallot again. These things just replicate like rodents. I started with a few bulbs two years ago, now I have little clumps (at least 20) of onion all over the yard that are already over a foot tall and very succulent and delicious. I still grow garlic because you can’t replace garlic.

Cane fruits: raspberries & blackberries obviously are taking over my yard as well. I have too many varieties to keep track of. I use a lot of cardboard and woodchips to mulch my cane fruits- this keeps the weeds away and really helps the canes establish new growth. I love cardboard. I pull it out of dumpsters and fill my truck any time I go to town. Once I even rented a trailer to haul cardboard home.. also I grow a good portion of my garlic in cane fruit patches- it’s a good companion plant that repels J beetles.

Fruit trees! All of ‘em! Apples, pears, plums, peaches and a few oddities. I have several well established trees that produce and many more that are a year or two old. I learned to graft and have some really nice apple rootstock- I probably will be able to make new grafted apple or pear trees in quantity in a year or two. Then I’ll be selling fruit trees! Or buying land to plant them on..

Strawberries are an afterthought to me. They wander around my yard and are a nice early fruit- but speaking of early fruits, have you tried honeyberries? They are the very first fruit of the spring and similar to a blueberry. I have a few established bushes, but last year ordered many new varieties after I realized what I was dealing with. Slow to establish, and not very prolific, but I love fresh fruit so totally worth the space and time they take.

That was fun!
Gardening is easy if you want it!
Be well all!

I'm going to get some walking onions.... but hazlenuts...

I wish I had timelapse of my birdfeeder... probably make me mad though... little greedy thieves...

If you grow peppers in pots, you can overwinter them indoors, they are all perennials. After year 3 they produce less. It's nice to get a bunch of hot pepper plants, bring them indoors and hand pollinate them so they breed true to form. Let them live three years while you have seend sprouting for yer 4. I put all that in the prepping if poor thread.

I might bring a plant in. My apartment is small though. Not a bad idea if I find a good spot.

If the Kudzu don't first!!!

Btw op.. 5 stars. Cool thread.

I just throw my birdseed on the ground. Then, they all have to find it. Maybe they can discover something NEW and get to work, instead of relying on me all the time.

So far, my easiest plant is potatoes of all varieties.

If it counts, I did accidentally grow a little pumpkin, but I didn't mean to. It just sorta happened. I forgot about it way out in the back of the yard and it regrew from it's own seeds.