Zucchini/courgettes are fun to grow. They can climb, too. Really entertaining when they get tangled in a hedge: your harvest festival feels like an Easter egg hunt. Just watch out for slugs and snails: they mow down young plants like a combine harvester.
@datatitian@plants@gardening katuk, sissoo, dwarf moringa, bloody dock sorrel are perennial greens that can be brought indoors in the winter months to harvest year round. Malabar spinach can be grown indoors but it’s a bit messy bc the berries stain and it’s an acquired taste.
Boehmeria is a profuse green, native plant for planting in ground out of doors.
@datatitian@plants@gardening shallots
You plant one bulb & harvest 5 or 6 magically. And because they are stronger tasting than onions, you need less to flavor food.
I usually chop them in the food processor, add enough olive oil to make them goopy, and freeze in ice cube trays. One cube flavors most things in a frying pan. Two if you want an onion heavy flavor. Yum!
@levampyre@plants@gardening oh man I thought green beans would be a good one a couple years ago. Researched and ordered seeds good for my climate. Planted them at the specified time of year. Carefully tended the sprouts and attached them to trellace. Flowers took forever to come and when they did they made a hard, hollow pod instead of beans. Turns out my beans never sprouted and I was babying Velevetleaf weeds all year 🤦
@datatitian@levampyre@plants@gardening I managed to grow beans pretty well one year. The night before I went out for my first harvest, a bunny ate all the bean plant leaves, but left all the beans. We ate those beans, but the bunny did not let the plants grow back after that. They were just too tasty.
@hydropsyche Ah, that's too bad. I would have thought that bunnies do not eat beans, because they are toxic. But then again, bunnies will know better than me. 🤷 Still, I don't feed the beans to my bunnies. The plants are great mulch and "in situ" compost when harvested. @datatitian@plants@gardening
@datatitian@plants@gardening depending on where you live, tomatoes can be great, but they need heat and a long growing season (too late to plant from seed now). They smell wonderful too!
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