Which THREE vegetables should I grow?

a reply to: AaarghZombies

Which THREE vegetables should I grow?

Actually you only need one. Corn....

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Ummm...sugar beets...they’re full of energy...sweet and delicious...you can eat all of the plant and best of all extract the juice and make sugar...

From the sugar...rum...

What’s not to love...?







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Three Sisters Techniquea reply to: AaarghZombies

Look up companion planting and try to find some charts for your climate/region. I'd go with things that need minimum effort for satisfactory results. It'll truly depend on where abouts in the world you are, landscape and weather. Might help to join local communities dedicated to growing foods.

imho

turnips (swedes). root veg for bulk and tops for green vegetable.

(white) potato. can hide in ground and harvest as needed, depending on climate. can use them for seed the next season. provides more calories per acre than almost anything else.

stringbeans. easy to grow, prolific. many kinds can be canned and/or frozen.

three sisters is also a great idea. Native Americans would dry all three. they would keep for months. this is what they ate this time of year. add any deer or rabbit or fish as available.

Potatoes are easy to grow and they store pretty easy in a cool spot in the basement. I like harvesting the majority of our potatoes in the late summer, they are small but potatoes in the stores are very expensive at that time so you get the best savings from harvesting them between late july and through august. Plus, they are new potatoes and boiling them with skins on is delicious. We dig in the mound and pull out the bigger ones, then you still get some potatoes from each plant later in the fall after the vines die down. Yum, you cannot beat fresh new potatoes out of the garden.

Next is cucumbers, I like straight eights. They are easy to grow and you can also make freezer pickles out of them quickly. Thinly sliced sweet pickled cucumbers with onions go good with things or taste great on their own.

Green and yellow beans are good too, and they freeze good, just blanch, quick cool, let dry, and then put them in ziplock bags and take out what you need all winter. Cutting them into pieces at diagonals make it possible to freeze more in a bag which takes less freezer space, but we always freeze some whole too. If you freeze them the day of picking they retain their flavor better.

Carrots are easy to grow and you get a lot of carrots in a patch because of how close together they are. I can't grow carrots well here, they get nice tops but just a small bottom, but they grow well at my granddaughters house.

Parsley is great, you can even put that in planters. Same with Sage, it is a nice plant and as the leaves die off, I pick them and put them in the soup.

Ten strawberry plants can give you enough berries to munch on a couple a day if they are everbearing, plant those next to the house or deck, the deer love to eat the plants at our house. When growing strawberries, toss a couple of pennies in the soil because the extra copper does improve the flavor of the berry for some reason. The pennies do oxidize quickly, three years they don't look like pennies anymore if you have acid soils. Having Raspberries in the yard is good too, they come to harvest and we snack on them on the plants a few times a week. Ours are all wild, so we do not get enough here to make jam very often, putting your coffee grounds around raspberries boosts berry production considerably, it also keeps the ants away from the house.

Green onions can easily be grown in a planter, we get onion sets every year and have rectangle shaped planters, plant the onions about two inches apart, then pick them out to use them and pop a new onion bulb in as you pull some out. The soil is a little burnt the end of the summer, but we usually dump it back into the garden. I like green onions when in season. We also have grown them inside by the patio door in a planter, so you can have them year round. Make sure there are no tree frogs in the planters when you take them in for the winter, those frogs start making strange noises at night, and they are hard to see on plants and when you get close to them, they shut up most times. We had to call in the granddaughter to find one a few years ago, she found it almost right away, it made a few chirps and she zeroed in on it.

Of course, one of the easiest things to grow is tomatoes, I do mine in planters. Some cherries and some other kinds, we buy the six packs of plants from the store and then transplant them. When on sale, a six pack of plants costs about a buck seventy five now, and a dozen plants gives a lot of tomatoes. They make the wire cones for them which works great, been doing that for many years, now the granddaughter does it and she has a really good tomato that she grows in her yard, more taste than we get here, and she got many hundreds of cherry tomatoes off of eight plants. The chippies ate the Roma Tomatoes though but not the super sweets.

You have more options depending on where you live, here in Upper Michigan we have less options. But we can grow things that others have problems with here. Not much salt in the soils here, so some things require adding salt, others grow better with little salt...nothing grows if there is no salt.

Good luck, just suggestions.

a reply to: Boadicea

Mine would be tomatoes, summer squash, and melons.

Of course, two of those are fruits, lol.

Where the hell do you live if you're planting in February, or are you starting them indoors?

a reply to: AaarghZombies

Which THREE vegetables should I grow?

Corn, cowpeas and/or beans, taters.

a reply to: Liquesence

Of course, two of those are fruits, lol.

Yes, they are! I wondered if anyone would catch that. But I'd already hit "reply". And those are my favorites.

Where the hell do you live if you're planting in February, or are you starting them indoors?

Arizona

Can't believe microgreens were never mentioned here. Up to 10x the nutritional value and a 11 day turn around. They are a great supplementation to any diet. Make them one of the three choices and you are really set.

I grow them myself and sell them at farmers markets. I ALWAYS sell out.

a reply to: AaarghZombies

Root vegetables and perennials.

And beans.

a reply to: AaarghZombies

For example, which would give you the greatest yield for the least effort, or could be grown the easiest by a total novice?

jerusalem artichoke

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a reply to: PapagiorgioCZ

superhot peppers

Me too.

I have scotch bonnet and wax. What peepers do you grow?

a reply to: EternalShadow

Never heard of this.
reading up on it know. Seems like exactly the thing I have been needing in my garden.

Any types that you would reminder?

a reply to: scraedtosleep

Bhut Jolokia and a thin no-name Vietnamese strain that is IMO even more wicked.
If I'm be able to get the seeds to Europe I'm gonna grow myself some of those Primothalii. However they are sold out on Johny Pickles site. Johny Scoville says this is it. The hottest strain he ever had. And he eats them like candies. So I need this one. I eat my peppers faster than they manage to grow. 😛

a reply to: scraedtosleep

You can grow almost anything as micro-greens. It's just a fancy term for seedlings.
Barley, Wheat, Beet,...
I like Dill. It's easy and it's too woody once old. It's easy to propagate the seeds, unlike other crops. With other herbs I feel bad eating the little baby seedlings. Not so much with the Dill - it re-grows fast. Otherwise you need pounds of seeds. Quinoa, Alfalfa,... - they may be good but are expensive and I'm not sure how easy it is to let them make new seeds

originally posted by: LABTECH767
a reply to: AaarghZombies

Well I would say in the UK you need all four.

Tory's are worse than sprouts they will lie and act all green but eat there lies and the smell will haunt you, still some are good for the soil.

The UK is extremely fortunate that it has a center right socialist party. In a lot of the western world voters have to choose between conservatism and socialism because their socialist parties are all hard left, and their right wing parties disavow socialism.

The US has no equivalent, the Republicans hate socialism and the democrats hate traditional values.