In this video I’m going to show you the 9 easiest vegetables to grow in your organic garden. No matter your skill level! My choices are based on a wide range of growing conditions, and pest and disease resistance.
MENTIONED VIDEOS
How to Grow Lettuce: https://youtu.be/EgTasbpQJLE
How to Grow Beans: https://youtu.be/nkZH0rKhMr8
How to Grow Peas: https://youtu.be/7pGCdH3x9hY
How to Grow Zucchini: https://youtu.be/MEOLY9D5n2k
Squash Bug: https://youtu.be/3MZ_4R5GDC4
Squash Vine Borer: https://youtu.be/zNVTvmRmBw4
How to Grow Garlic: https://youtu.be/-AmkcG6Gr8Q
How to Grow Potatoes: https://youtu.be/CqqrBFRlN2A
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Oh no I killed lettuce I am the worse gardener there is ๐คฆโโ
Edit: I killed green onions too it's official ๐ง
Hi Brian: This is a little off-topic, but thought you might answer anyway. In the Sierra Nevada we are still under mountains of snow and the raised beds and trays in our greenhouse are still frozen. What about using warm water to thaw them out? Whaddya think? Would that damage the soil? Thanks in advance.
Bryan, my wife asked me to send a note that you should have included pink eye purple hull peas in this list. We love both of your channels! Always viewing from Alabama.
Chive flowers make beautiful cut flowers and are edible.
I saw the zucchini in the thumbnail, so I was preparing my mind to be a bit sarcastic about the easy things being the repulsive veggies. As you see I hate zucchini especially after it is larger than tennis racket handle. My view of zucchini is that it should be harvested on the evening after it blooms.
However, I love your choices in general. I love raising peas, beans, potatoes, lettuce, chives, green onions, and potatoes. I am a bit surprised that annuals broccoli and radishes plus the perineals of strawberries, raspberries and rhubarb did not make the list. These are so very easy for me that I hardly think I am growing them we simply harvest them.
It is so tough to talk about gardening without tomatoes and corn although I admit it doesn't make the list of cinchy vegies to grow.
With those pea vines – you can also eat the sprout ends as far back as the hard fibers in the vines. My local Chinese bistro has steamed and garlic and soy sauce pea sprout vines – and they are totally awesome to eat !!! So don't waste your vegs – eat them
Sooooo many easy-to-grow vegs – radishes, daikon (giant) radish, mustard (greens), (mustardy) nasturtiums, (mustardy) water and land cresses, turnips, (swedes) rutabagas, (giant) amaranth, pigweed, lamb's foot, beets, mangel (livestock, sugar) beets, cabbage, collards, tree collards, kale, tree kale, lettuce, tree lettuce, onions, garlic, chives, scallions, shallots, leeks, potatoes, Andean oca and yacon tubers, taro root, ginger, turmeric, …
Just need proper gardening soil, nutrient-rich, proper irrigation schedule – and all is happy Jack …
I know the topic is vegetables – but some kitchen herbs like Basil, thyme, dill are also really easy.
Def peas! We like the sugar snap ones. I only container garden, from the beginning micro toms are easy. Like Tiny Tim. Can grow in less than 5 gal. Basil is easy too. Use in pesto & ice tea esp blue spice basil. Has a vanilla taste.
Uve not done great with lettuce…I did get some but I bought those first year 4 plants
Have never had luck with cabbage… Those damn moths are everywhere here!
Here are a few other easy growers.
1. Okra, but it does not like the cold.
2. Swiss Chard
3. Asparagus. It takes a few years to get them started, but then you have asparagus popping out of the ground each spring for 20 years.
4. Radishes (the easiest thing to grow, in my opinion).
5. Cilantro (so controversial)
6. Sweet corn. It takes a lot of space, but isn't very difficult to grow.
7. Purslane.
8. Dandelions.
I was vegetarian for 25 years.. (now Keto) if I never see lettuce again, it will be too soon.. never liked it. My two green leafys are Swiss chard and spinach.. I haven't tried Malabar spinach yet.. don't know if I like it. Mustard, collards and wait.. there's another one.. well I can't think of it but .. blech.
I didn't do well with zucchini last year.. the rabbits did well with them though.
I'm going mostly in containers this year.. what's the smallest size you'd use for both zucchini and bush beans?.
9 easiest for Californians…….lol. Yes, I will keep watching you videos even after I beat you up a little here. Potatoes bad for diabetics, I live in Texas it is spring here, the majority of your list of easy to grow veggies is for cool California weather, which means you don't live near hwy 101 and is not good for Texas warm spring weather. Zucchini, yeah I am done with squash (vine bores} I have used every method you can name except for going nuclear! I am just going to buy squash from the stores for the next few years!!! The vine borers won the war here!
I struggle with literally all of the ones you mentioned. Lol. Maybe it's my South Carolina soil. Currently working on soil health at the moment instead of gardening this year because I'm at a loss right now.
Rhubarb seems to be doing well here as well as the asparagus that I have in a sandy patch. Hoping that my small patch of sunchokes will come back up this year, but for something that supposedly spreads and keeps coming back, it's also struggling.
I disagree with you on the zucchini because of the squash bugs and vine boarers. They are absolutely relentless, and I think growing zucchini could be very discouraging if a new gardener were to experience an infestation of these evil pests. I'm an experienced gardener, and squash bugs and vine boarers are my number one gardening nightmare! However, I enjoy zucchini too much to give up plamtng it.
For potatoes I would also mention the dreaded tomato hornworm!!! A few years ago I planted potatoes in bags and they were doing great! Then one day I noticed disappearing leaves.. within 24 hours a few horn worms had all but killed my potatoes!!! ๐
The background sure looks like San Diego/ East countyโฆ
Great job. I would add spinach and Kale to the "easy" list and like lettuce. you can get multiple harvests. In hot summers, they will bolt, but hopefully you got a few bags full by then. I really like your channel. While we are in totally different plant zones (we are in a 5B) I am really surprised how we plant very similar crops. I learn something with each episode.
True with peppers. Itโs been a cold winter spring here in southwest Arizona and my peppers are slow. Am also having aphids on them as well.
I had ,it's problems with cabbages peppers are much easy for me the is for all you tips ๐๐
i like these plus chard for sure. I find carrots easy once you get them going under a piece of cloth early in the spring. It's just watering until their leaves get big enough to keep the ground covered and moist.
I will not plant cabbage without having them covered.
I also have Japanese beetles and they are horrible and the leaf footed bug on the tomatoes is so annoying. So far my plans for a garden didn't happen. So hard to have patience when you need help. Great video Brian thanks!โค๐ค
Okay, okay,… you just convinced me to try growing beans again (total fail last year).
My easiest vegetable to grow. None so far. I am on my 3rd year of gardening. I feel like this is my year. Thanks for all your info. Bev from Oklahoma
Okra and collard greens grow like crazy in the deep South.
I live in Canada and have been gardening for years. The last few years planting potatoes is a nightmare because of the Japanese Beetle. These evil bugs are in the soil and netting doesn't help. I spend several hours killing the beetles by picking them off my plants and dropping them in soapy water. In one day I killed over 300 of them. I tried planting them in straw and what the beetles didn't get the mice did. Most of my potatoes are planted in large buckets. I find it easier and although I still get those evil bugs I find less damage because it easier to manage. I also want to mention that slugs are also a nightmare. I get up in the morning and walk around my gardens, raised beds and green house/hot house with a bag of Epson salt and sprinkle it on everyone I find. Slugs can and will destroy plants quickly. I lost 22 Buttercup squash plants and so many others to the slugs. I always make sure I have extra plants started at different times for this reason and so not everything will grow and have to be harvested at once. I would recommend a new gardener might want to plant in containers and raised beds etc. Even with all the insect troubles I have gardening is one of my passions that I always look forward to. Thanks for your wonderful and informative videos ….. Happy Gardening Everyone !
Had a rough time with cabbage last year. I had it covered with fine netting and the grasshoppers ate holes through it. I found several white butterflies, and one cabbage had hundreds of critters on it. I got 3 heads out if it.๐ข
Thanks for the tip about chives.
Ok ok I guess Iโll try growing garlicโฆ.
Ps the smile after โthe pests will just go over to your neighbors houseโ lol
Cannot grow zucchini no matter what I do The bugs eventually beat me. I would put "tromboncino squash" in their place if you suffer from squash borers and bugs. I grow lettuce in summer in window boxes under the shade of a huge grapefruit tree and successfully keep us in leafy greens ( tip: save the red lettuces for winter). I am in sub-tropical Northeastern Australia. Cheers Muffy from Oz. I
I love the list – 2 things easy for me in Dallas area are herbs – especially thyme, rosemary and Italian parsley. They seem to survive every bit of weather Mother Nature throws our way.
P.S. and radishes – grow fast and they are so tasty pickled!
In no particular order, my top 9 are; Garlic, zuch, lettuces, peas, beans, carrots, tomatoes, chives, kale (which we grow for the dog food, not us).