If there was a chart of this kind of thing or a solid non-SEO-spam resource, that would be helpful, too.
Seasoning herbs like mint, sage, parsley, cilantro, lemongrass, green onions (you can cut off the green parts a couple times and even replant store bought green onion after using the greens). All of these can be grown in medium to large pots and mint and sage in particular grow like weeds (mainly cuss they are descended from weed like plants). Pumpkins and squash are another good one, especially butternut squash which can be cooked in a variety of ways. Homegrown tomatoes are also awesome to have and experience compared to supermarket ones (grew several varieties this year and they were great especially cherry tomato varieties).
If you really just want to plant and forget, potatoes require next to no effort and grow like weeds. They are however, the cheapest fucking vegetable in the grocery store. Might be a consideration depending on how much land you personally can and are willing to cultivate for food
Potatoes like it when you mistreat them I swear. I can lovingly care for a potato, plant it, water it and have it die but the chunks I cut off with an eye haphazardly sprout in the grass and so do the ones I leave in the pantry??
Winter squash is a good one when you have more space than time to tend it, and it keeps pretty well
a fruit tree eventually yields much low effort but getting to that take a while
but yeah spinach, peppers, tomatoes are the sorta thing that go in any meal and probably the best for money saving
This is always the answer. If you have access to sunny land, fruit trees and herbs. Annuals take much more effort and energy than perennials. Rosemary, Thyme, Oregano, mint grow on their own and make cooking so much better. Add a sour citrus tree like Key limes, meyer lemons, and you can really accomplish a lot.
if you’ve never grown anything before, do (non-Asian) radishes
it’s idiotproof and also more satisfying than growing leaves
it’s idiotproof and also more satisfying than growing leaves
be me
try grow radishes
radishes are as thin as hairs
the thickest radish maybe a pinky finger, but with big huge leaves
all I’m growing is leaves for the slugs to eat
did you do anything special to the soil? That seems like high nitrogen soil
I just planted them and barely even watered them and they were perfect, harvest in 1 month after seeding
I think the problems are manifold here
started growing too hot, it’s been in the 90s all summer
put too many in the same container because I’m not Container Rich
soil probably isn’t nitrogen rich because I errrr uhhhh have been re-using soil, but I do occasionally give it a bit of that Miracle Grow ™
the most Radishy Radish I’m growing has been growing for probably two months now, and I destroyed all the others in its container. It’s still not getting much thicker though. Every single one of them seems to be growing root tissue above the soil which I feel like might contribute to them not thickening up
I figure I’ll just keep watering them until they either seed or die
