The Easiest Plants to Grow in My Garden.

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I stopped buying seeds from the US...they sometimes nuke them for some reason. But I pondered this collection...plus it is a small business rather then amazon.

Heading out of work, thanks for all the garden advice! I'll check back.

To for posting. What region ru in?

I ordered some grocery delivery and accidentally ordered a cilantro plant instead of a cilantro bunch. I put it in my southern exposure room and have been watering it every day. It's the first plant I haven't killed in like two decades, but it's on it's 3rd growth after using up the first two and I need some cilantro seeds to keep it going.

I'm going to turn that whole room into a garden.

My understanding is the sweet is genetically modified into the fruit... bitter is actually healthier. Maybe that's why the wild ones aren't as sweet... They're wild.

The cilantro is so established here now, it is basically growing wild. I whacked some down in the middle of my driveway this morning.

I'm sure there will be more next week LOL

I did that with camomile...long gravel driveway turned bright yellow in season!

Garlic, chives, mint, fennel, and thyme thrive in my garden to the point of being invasive. I allow it because it attracts bees, which are fewer and fewer every year.

I also have peanut plants invading my flowerbeds because the squirrels and jays bury them everywhere.

So, I just need to let my coriander bloom is what I'm hearing....

Ok, that's funny.

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Any plants need a little love...oomph!

It's my favorite OS.

I’ve got a 3000 sq foot garden in zone 7a

I keep dwarf Apple, cherry, peach, fig trees blueberry bushes towards the northern back side so they don’t shade the garden.

I have a corner for asparagus (perennial veggie)
A corner for rhubarb (perennial veggie)
A corner for artichoke (perennial veggie)

Grow a few rows of multiple types of lettuce

A few rows of 6-8 varieties of tomatoes

A few rows of peppers

A row of cucumbers

A row of summer squash

A row of spaghetti squash

I grow watermelons in between the trees as well as giant pumpkin in between the trees.

A row of egg plant

I keep a second garden area next to my kitchen for herbs

I do the back to eden gardening method. Have free service company that drops off tree clippings every now and then and every fall/winter I use the tractor and add a new layer to the ground. To plant you need to take a landscape rake and rake out a column until you can see the dirt and then plant in the dirt and then rake back the chips keeps 90% of the weeds gone and I’ve never watered my garden and the soil now is some of the most amazing stuff you’ve ever seen after a few years of this.

I don’t like planting any direct sow veggies, maybe one year I’ll get myself to do them.

Celery its super easy to grow and regrow.

If you are in zone 7 or higher, chuck down seeds in the fall. You will have 3', flowering plants before May 1st.

Then you have time during the summer to plant 2-3 more rounds of it.

It's the never-ending plant.

I planted myself, easiest thing early in the morning and at dusk.

Squash is very easy

This would really depend on your area/hardiness zone. But onions or any allium, radishes, beets, potatoes are usually easy to grow in any area south of zone 3.
For everyday soup during a rough summer and if you have enough rain in your area, you can plant nettle. If you can find the seeds of course and have a pair of gloves to harvest it. It will also keep benign intruders away from your garden.

Planted Sweet corn, potatoes, onions, garlic, peppers, tomatoes, zucchini, spaghetti squash, butternut squash, tomatoes, beets, peanuts and sunflowers. I have 4 apple trees, 4 blueberry bushes, 1 pear tree and 1 fig tree.

Gonna plant a field of "dent corn" after I harvest the sweet corn. The dent corn is for milling into grits & corn meal.

I also have 10 Chickens. Sunflowers and dent corn can be used as chicken feed. Can't free range chickens due to hawks.

Just need some more toilet paper...LOL

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Yes, let it bloom and go to seed it produces copious amounts of seeds.

I harvested the seeds for years and planted them. It was kind of tedious. But now, it is reseeding itself! I do have a raised bed dedicated to cilantro, but it is popping up everywhere. I'll take it.

Last Edited by Crunch62 on 05/06/2021 10:37 PM

You should look into the asparagus they grow in WA it’s sweeter and not as bitter. Still makes your pee stink.

Three years isn’t that long, plant some every year and pretty soon you’ll be giving it away.

It makes for a good pickle.

Try sprinkling bb’s around in the air. That usually gets rid of squirrels. A bb gun (not an air rifle) won’t kill them with only a pump or two of air. They will think twice about visiting your yard.

I love the smell of bb's in the morning...

I've been gardening in the same beds for ten years now, and the soil is a perfect loam now, that I can "til" with my hands- a foot deep that I have been supplementing my sandbox/clay soil with ash and horse apples, that I turn over in the spring and fall with a layer of DE to keep the bugs out and the worms in ... It will grow anything I put down and water ... so rewarding ... especially the plants that come up by themselves ... asparagus, onions, garlic, strawberries, rhubarb ...

if you aren't growing your own ... you are missing the best food in the world - from your own back yard

I've ordered some nettle seeds. I will tell you how it grows..

I’m adding strawberries this year and I appreciate the tomato suggestions. Grew Rutgers and Cherokee Purple last year. Setting out Rutgers again this week (they rock)! but not the purples. I’d like to have another firm variety for gazpacho, too. My neighbor has 4 giant black walnut trees, so I’m still learning to navigate that.

Mint, sage, rosemary, oregano, basil and parsley do very well for me. Also watermelon.

Amazing thread thank you so much!! I’m in the process of creating a permaculture food forest on my land in South America. I already have a robust garden but it requires replanting every season. But I’ve been reading about perrenials - which is what your writing about here OP, and it’s the way to go.

My plan is to have every square foot of my land that isn’t a path or a strxute to grow something useful.

I haven’t tried strawberries yet (ordered seeds) but that’s a great choice. Never ever buy strawberries - even if supposedly non GMO, they absorb contaminants too much. But if you grow them in your own garden you are good.

I will concur on the mint. That I do have and it’s amazing in how hardy it is and how fast it grows. My only word of caution is that it WILL take over your entire garden if you let it. Mint grows like a weed.

Every climate is different but as far as perrenials go, plants that will come up year after year without replanting, asparagus is another one to add to your list, along with basil, cilantro, and aloe.