5 Easy to Grow Plants for Your Vegetable Garden

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Gardening season is finally here, and I’m so excited to start planting my vegetable garden and I love using easy to grow plants. My son and I always have so much fun watching the plants transform from tiny seeds into leafy green plants with delicious veggies hanging off of them. Lately, I’ve been preparing my garden for planting, which has required me to clear the fall leaves away, tilling the dirt, laying out my rows, and planning my garden layout. 

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Preparing my garden also means I get to shop for seeds. My favorite place to buy my seeds is Seeds Now. They have amazing organic seeds that are continually tested to ensure that each seed will sprout into a beautiful plant. They have a huge selection of seeds and shipping is super fast!

Easy to Grow Plants: Lettuce

Most lettuce plants are simple to grow and are relatively easy to harvest. Lettuce seeds can be sown directly in the soil and they prefer cooler temperatures to warm, so plant them at the beginning and end of your growing season for best results. For leafy varieties, you’ll need to thin your seedlings to three-inches apart, then then them again by removing every other plant when the lettuce is half grown. For head lettuce, plant your seeds eight to 10 inches apart. To harvest your lettuce, simply snip the tops off the lettuce plant or pluck the leaves off as you need them.

Beans

There are hundreds of varieties of beans! And most of them are super simple to grow, making them the perfect plant for your home garden. All bean seeds need is soil that drains well and consistent warm sun throughout their growing season. Bean seeds can be sown directly in the soil in rows that are one and a half feet apart. The seeds should be planted two inches apart and then thinned to six to eight plants per foot. Since most bean plants produce the bulk of their harvest within a two-week period, it’s best to plant your beans in intervals to ensure a steady crop all summer long. To harvest your beans, just pluck the pods off the plant.

Cucumbers

Cucumbers are another simple-to-grow plant that loves warm weather. The only additional supplies you’ll need for successfully growing cucumber plants is a support for the plants to grow on. Plant your cucumber seeds in a small group in a mound, then thin to the strongest three plants with the seedlings are around four inches high. Hills should be spaced around four feet apart and the support systems should be in place when the seedlings emerge to be sure that the plants will immediately begin climbing. To maximize plant product, you should pick your cucumber fruits as soon as they reach picking size. Cucumber plants naturally self-regulate their production, so removing ripe fruit will allow the plant to immediately begin producing another fruit in its place.

Carrots

Carrots are another plant that are perfect for the beginning gardener. The only requirement for successfully growing big carrots is loose, sandy soil. If you have previously planted a garden in your garden space, plant your carrots in an area where potatoes or onions have previously grown because the soil in that area will have already been worked up. If you’re planing in a new space, be sure to deeply work up the soil before planting your seeds to ensure your carrots have room to grow. Sow your carrot seeds evenly in rows that are 12 inches apart. Thin to one inch apart when leaves first begin to sprout, then to three inches when true leaves begin to show. Your carrots will be ready to harvest when a crown of orange begins to appear at the soil line, or around two months after planting.

Zucchini

My favorite plant that is simple to grow is zucchini. Zucchini plants need warm weather, but can be grown pretty much anywhere. Zucchini seeds should be planted in hills spaced three feet apart. Six or seven seeds can be planted in each hill, which will then be thinned to three plants per hill when the seedlings emerge. Squash vines will develop very quickly and can be harvested within two months.

 

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