Help a beginner- trug to grow veg

[DinoSaw]

Help please! I bought two bargain trugs at B&q with the intention of growing vegetables. But I am new to trugs, and growing vegetables so I’m feeling a bit lost and overwhelmed.

could someone tell me what to do, what to plant, etc? Am I too late to start growing now? Should I plan to start in spring?

I think this is the one I bought (if it makes a difference)

https://www.diy.com/departments/wooden-trough-100cm/240201_BQ.prd

This time of year, you could grow fast growing salads such as lettuces, spring onions or radishes. Just fill the containers with damp compost and sprinkle with seeds.

Protect the containers from pigeons, slugs and deer.

Or you could plant each with a tomato plant. A tumbler like Tumbling Tom would work. Use damp compost again and then place them against a south facing wall and keep them damp - not difficult this year. The wall should absorb some heat from the sun and hurry the plants along a little,

Bit late for tomatoes, although you might get lucky if we have a mild autum. Plenty of time for some autumn and winter veg though - pak choi and similar should do well. Lambs lettuce, rouge d'hiver lettuce and winter purslane for greens in the depth of winter if you drape some fleece over when the frost comes. That looks deep enough for carrots, too, and beetroot. Try some different colours that you can't buy in the supermarket. And you can get spring cabbages in now to be ready early next year.

You could sow a small amount of carrots, Nantes is a good quick variety that you harvest while small. Leeks would just about manage or spring onions.
How about some parsley, in fact the supermarket herbs are suitable for taking out of their pots and splitting.

Thank you all. So some root vegetables (carrots) and lots of green leafy stuff seems to be the main suggestions. We like all of that so looks like I’ll be off to look at seeds with my kids this week. Hopefully they’ll enjoy the planting, growing, eating cycle