Post your 'easiest to grow' veg and fruit here.

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Something which I have never gone wrong with is beans. In particular Blue Mountain {I think it is called, well blue something} Bumper crops every time and minimal work involved.

Also, raddish is simple and very very quick.

Cucumber - another quickie.

Strawberrries - bumper crop last summer.

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My ds brought home a planted bean in a yoghurt pot last year, we transferred it to the garden and had beans comming out of our ears!

Peas and mange tout were also good

and so were spring onions

Peas until last year when we were over run with caterpillars!

Our raspberries do v well for little work as do tomatos and courgettes but don't have more than one plant or you get too many!

Lettuce & rocket also v easy & much cheaper/ nicer than buying it

pak choi and courgettes.

I find Tumbling Toms really easy to grow, I put them outside in hanging baskets. They don't need any attention other than watering and we usually get a really good supply.

Jerusalem artichokes grow like weeds, we get more than we can cope with in our tiny garden.

Basil is worth growing too as it's the only way to make homemade pesto economical!

I also recommend growing mizuna, v easy, grows most of the year, tastes like a milder, softer version of rocket. V yummy.

courgettes as others have said.
salad leaves
potatoes

must get some basil seeds

Mange tout and sugar snap peas were sooo easy last year, the kids were always eating them straight from the plants in the garden. I would advise using a net for them to grow up though.

Purple sprouting broccolli took well last year as well, had loads of meals from it.

agree with tumbling toms in a hanging basket. I have one hanging from another (double decker toms!), 2 plants in each and it keeps us and neighbours in tomatoes all summer long.

Ooh yes Basil. I put it all round the bottom of the tomato plants in the greenhouse & it smells gorgeous!

ooh thanks you lot. only just got back on MN. loads of ideas. I will be looking into growing masses of different stuff.

I scattered some rocket seeds on the ground a few years ago and it has grown back every summer.

My radishes have also done well, but only if I thinned them out properly.

Mixed lettuce seeds seem to do well planted in a pot - maybe that keeps the slugs away.