Youre going to enjoy eating these easy-care garden plants.
Of course, the best vegetables to grow in your garden are the ones that you enjoy eating.
This collection of edible garden plants will fill your plate with fresh flavors and colors all season long.
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Heirloom Tomatoes
No store-bought tomato can compare to abig, juicy heirloom tomatoplucked fresh from your garden.
Heirloom varieties tend to have irregular shapes and thinner skin than mass-market tomatoes.
That means heirlooms dont ship as well and can be hard to find in your produce aisle.
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Ensure your own supply by growing these tasty yet delicate tomatoes yourself.
Heirloom tomatoes are excellent for fresh eating.
However, they dont keep for long on the plant or in your kitchen.
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Check the garden regularly and plan to eat the heirloom tomatoes you harvest within a couple of days.
Summer Squash
Prolific is possibly the best word to describesummer squash.
Although the plants can hog a lot of space, a single plant will give you an ample harvest.
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Theres a good reason we have a National Sneak Some Zucchini Onto Your Neighbors Porch Day!
Peppers
Pepper plants dont take up much space andproduce a harvestfor weeks at a time.
Both sweet and hot peppers come in many shapes, sizes, and colors.
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This bulbous plant takes up very little space and is easy to grow.
Whengrowing garlic, you’ve got the option to enjoy the bonus of garlic scapes on hardneck types.
Scapes are the edible flowering stems that appear before the heads are ready to be harvested.
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Bush types, such as Marketmore 76 or Salad Bush, are excellent forsmall-space vegetable gardensand containers.
Trystarting cucumber seeds indoorsto get a jump on the growing season.
Thiscool-season crop thrives in the cooler monthsof spring and fall but stops producing in warm temperatures.
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Many flavor-rich mixes are available, making them a tasty addition to your vegetable garden.
These mixes often contain greens such asarugula,chard,lettuce, and kale.
Mesclun is easy to grow from seed planted in early spring.
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This fast-growing, cool-season crop has so many uses, both fresh and cooked.
Spinach is easy to grow from seed in early spring.
Beans
Beans are among the easiest vegetables to grow.
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Fromsnap beansto edamame, you’ve got the option to grow them all in your backyard.
Bush-jot down beans fit well into smaller gardens, whilepole-jot down beansneed support to climb.
Basil
If you might only grow one herb in your vegetable garden, it should bebasil.
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It is one of the easiest herbs to grow and is tomatos perfect partner.
Basils flavorful leaves elevate everyday sauces, soups, and salads into gourmet fare.
Basil grows equally well in the garden andin containers.
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Its textured foliage makes it a pretty plant in the edible landscape, too.
This area should be level so fertilizers and rain wont be unevenly distributed.
Culinary gardens need about an inch of water per week.
Growing plants inside will also offer additional protection.
