Gardening Tips For Senior Citizen

10 Easiest Vegetables to Grow in Your Garden

To have a continuous supply of vegetables in your kitchen, you should plan out and list down some easy to grow plants to give you your daily vegetable needs the whole year round. Give preference to those vegetables that are rich with the needed nutritional requirement of your family.

You can select from among those that are easy to grow, less daily care and nutritional your children likes to eat. Give more importance to your kids daily nutrients needs.

Always put it your consideration the climatic needs of the veggies you want to grow. Record some particular crops that grows in a certain climate, so that in every change of climate, you’ve a certain crop to plant based on your record. This is vital since you want a continuous supply of veggies the whole year for your daily needs of fresh foods.

There are vegetables that tolerates summer, others winter, some on spring and fall. List down those veggies that grows well from these different seasons to guide you, and provide you decision what to grow.

Lists of easy to grow vegetables

1. Tomatoes. Cherry Tomatoes is a good type of tomato that easily grows in most soils and tolerates cold climate, a perfect suit for gardeners. However, if you’ll plant tomatoes in a rich soil, you will only need to apply drenching technique every week until the start of fruiting. Pick some mature fruits to encourage more fruits to develop.

2. Radish. Radishes are the easiest root vegetable you can start. They grows well in all climates, all throughout the year and in temperate zones. Radish is a short season crop and matures about 4 -5 weeks from planting to maturity. The good thing about this crop, is they’re not easily attacked by insect and disease, since they’re early maturing. If you’ve planted radish in an enriched organic compost soil, all you need do is maintain the water needs , especially in hot, dry weather. During summer put some mulch the plant base, but do away during winter months. You can harvest them as soon as they reach a reasonable size. Don’t over mature them because they become woody when becomes matured enough.

3. Sweet pepper. This is a warm climate loving vegetable and does not tolerates low overnight temperature. Sweet pepper can be planted either in containers or directly in plots or beds. You may need to put some stakes in every plant hill for wind protection if you grow them vigorously, as they reached a height up to 80 centimeters. Once they begin to bear fruits and matures, start harvesting them when the color becomes dark green or when they’re turning red. Red color fruits of sweet pepper is rich with vitamin C.

4. Zucchini. One of the cucurbits family, Zucchini is also one of the easiest crop to grow, with amazing yields and is also a warm season loving vegetable. This plant grows well in a rich soil with plenty of organic materials. They can be supported with trellis or just let them grow freely on the ground. When the fruits reach about 6 – 8 inches in length, you can harvest them. Don’t let them over mature, since they become not edible anymore when becomes mature.

5. Spinach. Spinach grows best in cooler climates. The seeds are planted directly into the beds and covered with soil and maintain water requirements especially during hot weather condition. To have enough nutrition, you’ve to apply drenching (organic liquid fertilizer in the base of the plant. To harvest them, simply harvest those big leaves and leave at least 5 – 7 stalks to make the plant continue its growth development.

6. Spring Onions. Spring onions belongs to the Allium family and grow in a rich soil with organic materials. Spring onion responds well with enough water and proper mulch to keep the weeds. Harvest spring onions when they’re become big enough for kitchen use.

7. Peas. Peas are high yielder if given the proper care and with enough food nutrients in its entire growth period. To have a better produce, you should plant them in late summer up to late winter. They tolerates in high soil pH than most vegetables, so put lime into the soil along with compost for better growth response. Put some plant support for climbing, since they produce more fruits when given a support. Harvest the fruits regularly to produce more fruits.

8. Bush Beans. There are many different varieties of beans you can select. As a starter, select the bush variety. Bush beans grows favorably in warm weather condition. For a continuous supply of beans, start your next sowing when the first crop has grown their first true leaves. Feed with a liquid organic fertilizer when flowering starts. Remember to harvest your beans while they’re young and tender. They taste better this way, but more importantly, they will give you much better yields.

9. Peas. Peas will yield heavily if you give them what they need. And they are so delicious! Most varieties love the same conditions. Plant in late summer through to late winter, providing your soil is still workable. Peas like a higher pH than most vegetables, so add some lime into the soil along with mature compost or organic fertilizer. Provide support by giving them something to climb up. Keep moist in dry weather. Harvest regularly to produce more fruits.

10. Carrots. Carrots are easy to grow, but full-size varieties don’t tolerates in a rocky kind of soil. This crop grows well in soils rich with organic materials. Harvest them when their storage roots are big enough.