When to start growing veggies
5 Vegetables that are too EASY to GROW in the Garden
can i I'm mark from self-sufficient me
and in this video I want to give you my
five top vegetables that are just too
easy to grow so easy in fact that
they'll grow themselves without hardly
any effort from you at all let's get
into it
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number one beans there's good reason why
you can de see being served up in all
those old cowboy movies as beans were a
staple frontier food containing all the
nourishment a person needed to survive
in just one small seed oh the irony of
the spaghetti western that can be dried
they can be canned and of course they
can be eaten fresh beans have a very
flexible growing climate range and that
means in some places like hearing our
subtropical climate pretty hot beans can
be ground all year round they grow fast
remember Jack and the Beanstalk beans
uniquely don't take nitrogen from the
soil unlike a lot of other plants they
do take it from the air though and then
they store it in their own roots
therefore actually adding nitrogen to
the soil so beans are really great pre
crop to some of those other nitrogen
hungry plants say cabbages etc that you
want to grow after remember beans means
hurry up and grow them number two Asian
greens so we move from the west to the
east
Asian greens are fast-growing highly
nutritious super and some say
cancer-fighting wonder foods
on a continent with billions of people
protein is getting rare and harder to
catch and eat that's why their
vegetables need to grow fast big be
nutritious and above all easy to grow
let a bunch of Asian greens go to seed
in your garden and you'll never get rid
of them that's a good thing
Asian greens are great raw or cooked try
mizuna or mbuna or even the mustards
like the red giant or ruby streaks
please ruby streaks are taking over my
lawn now let's head to Europe with
number three
zucchini originally from the Americas
the zucchini that we all know was
developed in northern Italy where it was
given the name which also means gourd
squash and marrow the plant itself isn't
a spoiler
like other pumpkin vines so it's great
for smaller gardens but nevertheless
it's a big producer and a hearty
mouthful it is really easy to grow and
the speed at which the fruit swell is
ridiculous you can almost see it growing
real time some Zuke's can get up to a
meter long actually the longest suit
ever recorded was 2.5 5 meters there's
also plenty of varieties such as round
yellow white and they all taste
fantastic raw cooked or even pickled in
fact I pickled some the other day so
what are you waiting for
get on the boots and plant some zieks
now let's head back over to the east or
almost the middle where number 4 carrot
originated from you might find this hard
to believe but did you know that the
carrot originated in Afghanistan yeah
it's true in fact evidence shows that
carrots grew in Afghanistan over 5,000
years ago now I'm telling you if carrots
could grow in Afghanistan it can grow
anywhere orange carrots are really only
a recent development in the overall
scheme of time for this crunchy root
vegetable original carrots were white or
purple and had a very strong taste a bit
like this white carrot here except the
taste is good but in the old days they
were considered a medicinal food because
they were known to be good for you but
tasted like should I say not great but
these days with crossbreeding carrots
are delicious carrot seed easily and
they also store well after harvest so
they are a top backyard crop to grow and
keep using for months after I do
recommend growing these heirloom
varieties there's lots of different
colors they taste great and if you leave
them go to seed just a few plants
they'll give you thousands of seeds for
next season
number five radish another perfect root
crop vegetable to grow apt that it
follows after carrots they reckon it
originated from around India or China
but no one knows for sure let's say
India cue the Indian music radish is the
cheater of the vegetable world if you
want a fast growing crop and you just
can't wait then so radish seeds and
they'll pop up in literally a few days
and be ready to eat immediately well as
sprouts but within weeks as a root
vegetable did you know that some modern
farmers use them as a cover crop to
soften and aerate the soil before
planting their main crops sometimes they
don't even harvest their a dishes
they'll just let them rot in place
acting as a natural fertilizer comp
cost and groundbreaker at the same time
a lot of backyard growers so radish
seeds mixed in with their other slower
growing crops so when they sow them the
radish comes up first and they can
harvest them while they're waiting for
the other crop to come through there are
lots of different types of races you can
get the small ones that are best
harvested young or you can get larger
varieties like this Japanese daikon huge
and they same with this one over here
they're best harvested when they get a
little bit larger or in fact that can be
harvested really big and greater than
used in Japanese cooking or any cooking
really radish also have a long sowing
window and an excellent temperature
tolerance making it a productive crop
all around the world there are also
plenty of ways to prepare and eat radish
I like to eat radish raw with plenty of
garlic and my family well they like to
stay away for a few hours after that and
that's it those are my five vegetables
that are just too easy to grow but I
challenge you guys to do it don't forget
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