Easy veg to grow?

[GreyishDays]

I have some normal slightly sprouty potatoes that I’m aiming to plant.

We’ve grown carrots before which have been variable (0 one year)

Anything else easy? Have no greenhouse but could start things off in the house for a bit I suppose.

Courgettes, although leave it a few weeks, start off in pots indoors somewhere sunny. Need plenty of water and a rich soil but unstoppably prolific once they get started.

Salad stuff if you can keep it protected from slugs.

carrots are hard - don't bother
broccoli raab will give you a fast crop
perpetual spinach is the veg that keeps on giving for months and months and months
runner beans are easy and reliable
strawberries (not veg I know)
courgettes
leeks

I’m thinking along the same lines.

I’ve grown strawberries, blackberries, red currants and raspberries, or rather they’ve grown themselves with minimal interference from me. Sorry, I know they’re not veg, but they have vitamins and seem fairly fool proof.

I’m thinking of growing salad on the kitchen windowsill until I can work out a solution to the snails.

Can I ask a stupid question? What is meant by "rich soil"? My garden drains well - one spade depth down, it is beach! So I have bought some grow bags. But what should I be putting in containers? Normal peaty type stuff? I have ordered several vege growing books recommended on the prepper threads and sowed tomato seeds 10 days ago (and have 2 tiny seedlings ).

Perpetual spinach. Baby leaves for salad. Cut and come again crop that even I can't kill.

Is there a particularly easy type of tomato to grow?

Ooh following for advice!

How expensive is it to get started?

Moneymaker is a good tomato. We did well with courgette and cucumbers too. Other Squashes grow well too. French beans.
Sweetcorn was easy bit took up a lot of space.

Potatoes are very easy to grow. If you have any spring onions cut the root end off, about 1 inch, and put that in water. Once it sprouts new roots plant it and use the green shoots. Similar with carrots, but you won’t get a proper carrot, mostly the leaves. These can be used for salads.

Other than that I’ve only tried peppers indoors and then neglected them so they died 🤦‍♀️ I’m trying again.

Will find moneymaker tomatoes!

rocket is really easy. You need some soil and some seeds.
broad beans, runner beans etc, really easy.
pak choi is easy
swiss chard easy and pretty.

Peppers and aubergines are quite difficult.
Squashes are easy and the picked fruit lasts for ages.

I’ve just had a delivery of a load of seeds cheap online. We have little round carrots, cucumbers, tomatoes for hanging baskets, bell peppers, lettuce, runner beans, yellow string beans, purple string beans and some other dwarf beans. Going to go and get loads of cheap grow bags tomorrow and start sowing. Hopefully will get some potatoes too. Our Tesco delivery driver gave us a load of the delivery baskets as they were getting a bit knackered we used those as planters for our veg last year they worked really well.

Sweetcorn. So easy and so impressive.

Definitely courgettes if you want bang for your buck. Two plants will see you through the whole summer! Would also recommend butternut squash and pumpkins or other winter squashes as they store well and will see you through the winter.
Zeebrune onions I'd recommend, too. They're the long 'banana shallots' that you get in the supermarkets, although they're actually onions. You can start them off in a propagator on the windowsill and sow them in clumps of 4 or 5 and then plant them out when they're big enough.

Another good tomato plant is ‘hundreds and thousands’.They are tumbling, so I’ve grown them in hanging baskets and planters and got absolutely loads of cherry tomatoes. I am not green fingered at all.

Sounds delicious waitasecond!

herbs.

Lots and lots of herbs, wee pots on your kitchen windowsill. Yum.

If you want tomatoes for cooking, many like the oval Italian type. I prefer Black Russian. They are really dense inside and make the most amazing tomato soup.

Don’t forget herbs. Coriander and basil are easy to grown.

Everything needs warmth to get the seeds going and then keeping inside until all risk of frost.

Take care OP, once you start this, it will become a compulsion

Any recommendations for buying seeds online? I want to try perpetual spinach, courgettes and salad leaves, rocket etc.

Herbs are great because they add a bit of life to what might otherwise be boring food. For speed and the cost though, you're as well off planting up supermarket potted herbs, though some will need dividing, first.

Thompson and Morgan is great, online. Or look out for gardening magazines if you're able eg in the supermarket. They have loads of seed packets with them, at this time of year.

@Kubo I find ebay to be the best place. There are some very good sellers and I'd recommend premierseedsdirect. I've been buying seeds from them for some years and they have an amazing selection and I've never had a problem with germination.

Real Seeds. They are awesome.

Lidl is the cheapest place for seeds. Followed by Wilko and The Range.