The Easiest Vegetables to Grow in a Garden

Growing your own vegetables in your garden is a tedious task, but worth rewarding and helps you supply with your own fresh organic vegetables required for your daily kitchen needs.

You need to investigate the condition of your soil, climate in your area what vegetables thrives best so that you’ll not waste your time and efforts planting them.

But for your guidance, I have listed here some most common vegetables that are easy to grow and does not need too much care, yet gives good yield.

·         Tomato. This nutritious vegetable can supply your nutritional needs since it’s rich with niacin, potassium, phosphorous, lycopene, carotene, anthocyanin, and vitamins A, C, and E.

Tomato is easy to grow. It tolerates in a full sunlight location with a soil pH between 6 – 7. It can be grown either in containers or directly in the plots.

·         Carrot. Rich in vitamin A, antioxidants and fiber, carrot is also a delicious as a fresh snack (eaten raw) or sometimes bake into a cake as snack items. It can be grown as a single crop or combined with other vegetables in your garden or plant as potted plant.

·         Beet. Also known as beetroot, it has a fleshy storage root eaten plain and boiled and combined in salad as ingredient. It carries with it a certain a primary nutrient called Betaine which known to improve cardiovascular health for those suffering from such ailment

It can be planted either in containers or directly into the field. When you decide to plant beet outdoor, the soil should be properly cultivated and make some plots and sow the seeds directly distanced at least two inches between hill. Maintain the moisture requirement  until maturity. 

·         Radish. Consist of existing in shades of red, purple and white, these root vegetables are a great source of potassium, folic acid, magnesium and calcium. They are commonly used as ingredient in salad dressings or as a garnish for salads.

Radishes tolerates in a 6 –  7 soil pH to produce a big size roots. Radishes are fast growers and are ready for harvest in several weeks. Don’t let them over mature since they deteriorate easily.

·         Zucchini.  This vegetable is rich with potassium, folate and manganese and low in calories. They can be eaten as boiled, fried or steamed. Others make them as stuffed and baked.

They grows will outdoors with plenty of sunlight to support their growth process to produce quality fruits.

·         Spinach. High in both iron and calcium, this green leafy vegetable is eaten plain, cooked in a quiche, used as a pizza topping and made into a chip dip. They grows best in the open field  with a well-drained rich soil.

·         Pepper. This favorite green, yellow, red or orange vegetables range in flavor from spicy to sweet are rich with thiamin, folate and manganese.  Peppers can be stuffed with rice and meat or give salads, salsa and pasta a zesty kick to add more for their yummy taste. They tolerates outdoors with the soil rich in compost and Emsom salts which will make it rich in magnesium to help the peppers develop healthily.

 

Water them frequently, keeping the soil moist, or they may taste bitter once harvested.

There are still other vegetables that are easy to grow, however, I only narrow it down to these listed here to give you some guide to start your own organic home vegetable garden.

Happy gardening!