Small garden want to toddler friendly grow veg

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I was brought up on a farm and I'm keen on my son knowing where food comes from.
We have a tiny garden bu I'd like to grown basic veg or fruit and maybe sunflowers or dahlia.
What kind of pots and things would be best? We have a small patio and a very small lawned area so pots would be best.
I'm not green fingered so any hard to kill suggestions would be appreciated

Ohhh yes I love alpine strawberries, really good idea. Can u just buy these from a garden centre? Perhaps. Seed seems to be the usual method.

I'd recommend loganberries instead of raspberries: similar hardiness but no thorns. I'm allergic to thorned rasberry/blackberry type things (even picking the fruit leaves me with itchy rash) but thornless is no problem. Do raspberries have thorns? Mine don't but it's conceivable that I bought a thornless variety.

Loganberries are a completely different taste to raspberries, not so light and fresh, but heavier and richer. But a vigorous heavily fruiting plant and it doesn't sucker. Also not susceptible to virus.Takes up more space. You'll only need one loganberry, but the shoots grow 2-3m. Easy to care for.

I grow my veg in square tubs about 12 inches square and 15 inches tall. That's OK for most things including runner beans (4 to a tub), cabbage (1 to a tub), beetroot (ideally 1 to a tub but 4 at a pinch. Tomatoes crop will in tubs about 8inches square and 10inches tall. Then I have some larger tubs which I reserve for courgettes and squashes, who need all the space you can give them.

I've grown carrots in a pot. There are smaller varieties you can do this with. The pot was one of those large square ones and the advantage was I didn't have to worry about carrot fly or stony soil. I did this for some of my nephews when they were infant school age.

If you have a patio see if you can get some apple or pear trees that grow in pots. There are mail order companies that do them and the best time to order them is in autumn. The trees will be self-fertile and they take 3-4 years before they start fruiting. Yes you will have to water and fertilise them unlike if they grow in the ground but they are easy to look after.

I remember from my childhood myself and friends having fruit trees in our gardens (though they were in the ground). Once we got to older primary age we swapped fruit with each other in the autumn.

Strawberries and tomatoes are good to grow and the child will actually want to eat them.

Strawberries are perennials too, so once you have an established patch they keep coming back.

I have offivly planted a strawberry bed... With the help of the teeny tiny toddler who mostly threw compost around