Growing food in backyard

Bob Z

What's the easiest or best foods to grow in a back garden

Judgement Day

Depending on the size of your garden potatoes are a very easy, satisfying crop to grow in terms of crop yield and taste. Peas and beans are also easy to grow and yummy - especially if you have kids that you're trying to encourage to eat their greens. For the more adventurous carrots and parsnips can be fun to grow but take more work in terms of soil preparation, thinning etc. If you have a compost heap the vegetable marrow and pumpkin can also be easily grown. Rhubarb is another very easy plant to grow and once established provides a bountiful harvest annually with almost no maintenance bar harvesting. You can't beat the taste of veg from garden to pot to table in less than an hour.

Forgot to mention things like radishes, chives etc which are also easy to grow and handy to have for salads.

Mahatma coat

Just harvested the first of my PawPaw's today :D:D and my Olive plant is beginnin to look like a tree.

Chillies will grow almost anywhere as will Spuds.

I planted a pach of Pineapples last year and by all accounts it'l be another year before they're anywhwere near edible.

cathaloc

Bob Z wrote: »

What's the easiest or best foods to grow in a back garden

Whichever ones you like to eat!

In terms of calories per acre, potatoes are probably the 'best' food to grow for maximum return. If you dont like spuds though, there is no point in growing an acre of them

For a total novice, I would recommend crops like turnips/swedes, potatoes and peas/beans. These are all very simple to grow and will be ok if they are a little bit neglected. Depending on the specific breed you choose, they can crop heavily and all are easily stored over the winter months.

Best bet is to decide on what you want from your garden. Are you looking to produce food to save money, or are you trying to produce a superior product to what can be bought in the shops. This will have a bearing on what crops I would recommend to you. Peas for example, are 100 times nicer when you grow them yourself and pick and rush to the pot. Turnips though, are much the same whether shop bought or home grown.

So..decide what you want to achieve, then decide what foods you like or dislike. Then post back here with this information and I'm sure lots of people will be more than happy to help out. Its a little difficult with so little information - you wouldnt go into the motors section to ask which car is best!

Oldtree

Onions are a good and easy crop to grow a years supply from a small patch. Rasberrys both summer and autumn varities are easy too. Herbs such as parsely. fennel look after themselves. Mint in its own pot, or it will go everywhere.

Cheeble

Bob Z wrote: »

What's the easiest or best foods to grow in a back garden

Easy: Chickens.

Cheeble-eers