Easiest crop to grow

[Paulieb]

Hi All,

I'm new here, and this year I've gone mad on growing anything and everything.

But what I want to ask is what do you all think is the easiest crop/veg/fruit to grow.

Any reason will do, either because it requires little effort/watering, or produces large yields, or always has good germination.

[Thelma Sanders]

dwarf green beans..........no faffing with poles for climbing, but if you pick them regularly you get a good yield

[gillian62]

I'd second the dwarf beans, they were excellent last year.

Lettuce, no problem apart from keeping slugs and snails away. Radishes are another quick crop.

[bearded bloke]

Effort to yield you will be hard pushed to beat ... Cress but I suspect that was not what you meant so probably onions/shallots,poke a hole drop a set in & away it goes

[Jeanied]

I'm voting for squashes and courgettes as long as you can grow them on good rich soil and water them from time to time (a task I enjoy because I get so excited at the flowers / fruit).

[VirginVegGrower]

Cress and radish. These I give to my children to grow.

[Shadylane]

Radish maybe? Garlic is a no brainer too. Stick it in ground, ignore, wait, harvest. Simples.

[arpoet]

Runner beans... easy for kids to get involved with from sowing to picking and eating

[BigShot]

Garlic has got to be the easiest.
I put it in, ignore it until the leaves start to turn, then pull it up.
Onions are the same if grown from sets, from seed takes a bit of mollycoddling to get them off and going... then I ignore them again.

[binley100]

For ease I'd go with courgettes , but they do like a fair bit of the wet stuff. For me personally I have trouble with radishes .......I know, I know I can all hear you laughing .......

[Bren In Pots]

Spring onions are also easy I sow a few every couple of weeks.

[binley100]

I have problems with them as well........

But this year I've tried some purple spring onions and so far so good........

[Maccabee]

Not been at it long, but so far i'd say Garlic. I would say courgettes as well, as long as you don't keep chopping off the flowers like a friend i donated a plant to did lol

[JamesM]

Spring onion for me, no doubt. Radishes also appear in no time

[gojiberry]

Everything will grow bigger and better with the proper care and attention. It is easy to just bung in garlic and get a return but with the the correct care and some feeding the bulbs will be twice the size. Rhubarb gives a very good return after the first few years, The season has only just started and I have already had 3kg. Runner beans always give a very good return but they do need the ground preparing to get a maximum crop.

Ian