Novice gardener - tips to plant with DC please

[Doshusallie]

Hi. Assume I know nothing. (Which is true)

Ds1 loves the great allotment challenge tv show, and I want to plant something with him in pots, perhaps that can live on his window sill at least for a bit?

What would be good this time of year for that sort of thing? And what do I buy aside from pots and seeds?

TIA

Virginia Stock is foolproof as are Nastursiums ( pronounced Nasturshums).
Virginia Stock are very small plants/ flowers so plant lots in a small pot.
The Nastursiums are bigger.
I'm sure that's not how you spell Nastursuims.

What about stuff he can eat?

We have an old stone sink near our back door and scatter mixed lettuce seeds on it each spring. Most varieties of lettuce will let you pull leaves off and keep growing (as opposed to uprooting the whole head)

Radishes are great to grow with children too as they grow so fast you can almost see them grow!

I'd go for some nice green beans; the dwarf ones as they grow really fast and actually taste lovely unlike radishes. And they don't go wild like peas but can be watched as they flower and the little beans can be seen as the flower drops off.

Ooh, brilliant. Thanks so much! Might do all of them!!

peppers are quite cool to grow, we are also doing chives (the under a pound sets from wilkinsons where you just peel the lid off, water and stick the seeds in and all done). then we have carrots and peas in a trough and last year we did strawberries, cherry tomatoes and sunflowers. oh and DD(5) is doing sweet peas in a hanging basket - it was a kit.