Easiest Crops?

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Because I'm a fuss-budget:

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Thank you, Rusty!!

Fussing yet, . . . cukes may be the Completely- Frustrating-Somebody-Just-Shoot-Me plants in my garden . . . It has to do with the weather early in the year. It seems real sad when they produce like 1 fruit on each vine for the entire season. Wait! I'll put melons at the top of Thistle's frustrating list. Still, all in the family . . .

Steve
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[lesa]

Calendula's would definitely be at the top of my list. Plant them once and you will never have to do a thing!! They are the first thing blooming and the last thing blooming in my garden! They are cheerful and useful! Steve, I actually used my chives twice in the last couple weeks!! Maybe you will convert me, after all! Chives are certainly simple. I find butternut squash on the simple list. I plant them, think about them for about a week- and harvest tons of squash off them by the end of the season. Not bothered by any garden pests, and not too fussy about weather...Swiss chard is super simple too. Just plant and harvest.

 

[RustyDHart]

As lesa said: Swiss Chard is a wonderful plant to grow as well. I like the variety..."Bright Lights"...multi-colored and tasty....I harvest some of the older, less palitable leaves for my Bantams....I cut the leaves into shreds with scissors...bite size. In the late Fall I dig up 2-3 plants and pot them up and put them on the porch....I can then harvest fresh chard 'til almost the middle of December. It makes a wonderful potted plant....very colorful.... I like it steamed with a drizzle of Vinegar.....yum!!!

 

[StupidBird]

cherry tomato - mine keep volunteering all over the place now.

parsley - volunteer the next year if I let one go to seed and scatter.

rhubarb if you're north of Atlanta

Contender bush beans

Four Seasons cabbage (but the squirrels found it)

Also voting for Kale and Swiss Chard. Here in the humid hot South, I find Malabar vining spinach holds up really well (soak seed first).

Sunchokes got away from me and want to come up everywhere. Can I make the chickens eat them?

As far as aphids in leafy stuff, put a dash of baking soda in your washing water, soak a few minutes, swish and rinse.

 

[ninnymary]

Steve, I hate it when I "click" and there's no music! You have me trained to always click on your pictures.

Mary

 

[lesa]

Stupidbird- you are so right about rhubarb (in the right zone). You can plant that and not even glance at it for years- and still harvest it!!! That might be the winner!

 

[buckabucka]

We have volunteer poppies here, - some of the reddish orange ones, and some double carnation pink. They come up EVERYWHERE. I am especially a sucker for the pink ones, and have been known to starve food crops for light by letting the poppies grow. The are stunning.

For food, I would have to agree with green beans, zucchini, and rhubarb!