Because everyone was so nice about my fruit tree post, I thought I would post vegetables to grow that are pretty much impossible to muck up. Really great if it is your first attempt at growing, and useful if there is a zombie apocalypse or what-not. One of my little gardens below.

Here goes people.

Kale .. Not my favorite, but it really produces, and is so easy to grow. Nothing seems to stop it. Also lasts forever before going to seed, so you can just pick the leaves you want as you go and keep the plant in the ground. Grows all year so a good source of greens in those boring months of late winter.

Silverbeet.. Can also last a couple of years, I just take what I want and leave it to grow. It is also indestructible.  Kinda tasty with butter, but then again isn’t everything.

Chokos / chayote.. These are like a miracle plant. Put one in the ground, late summer you have 100 chokos to eat, plant 10 you have 1000 chokos to eat. Pretty tasty in a stir fry. You do nothing to them, throw one in the ground and it will grow like a vine over everything. I have grown them up trees, on fences, up water tanks lol anywhere.

Pak choy.. A tasty Asian green, ready in a super short period of time. Prolific, throw in a few seeds, and you have delicious greens in like 5 weeks. Un-killable too. Grows year round for me, Spring/ Summer/ Autumn vegetable if you get snow.

Spring onions.. You can just leave these planted all year round, and just take what you want. If you plant a bigger area, it is really handy if you run out of normal onions. I have a massive clump that is about 4 years old now, and you just take what you want wash it, cut it up and boom.

Daikon.. Another Asian vegetable. It’s like a radish, but super mild, nice in salads, stirfrys, or pickled. They are super easy to grow, drop a seed and run type vegetable, and when ready to harvest they are MASSIVE. Perfect.

Fennel.. I like fennel, because they are yummy roasted, you can use the leaves/fronds in salads, or the base thinly sliced, they are also really easy to self seed. I just let a few go to seed, and they pop up in the same area again next year. Continuous fennel, zero effort.

Pumpkin.. One plant gives like 10 kg of food. The pumpkins last all winter if stored right. What's not to like? Get a long lasting/ good storage grey looking variety though.

Potato.. Can be grown year round in my area, but stores well if you get snow. Again one potato makes 10 – 15. If only I got that interest rate in the bank .. Also has nearly every vitamin and mineral needed to sustain life.

Special fruit mention.. No fuss fruit to plant that need virtually no maintenance/ sprays etc and SUPER productive… Heirloom apples, Lemons/ limes, tamarillo, feijoas.

Next week will be cattle maintenance/ calf raising lol….