Today, I’m sharing gardening tips on fast growing vegetables to plant in your backyard garden or containers. These are easy to grow vegetables, and I highly recommend them for beginner gardeners as well as experienced gardeners.
Several of these delicious and nutritious veggies find a place in my garden every year. I hope you will find a few that you want to plant, and they become favorites in your summer garden.
Fast growing vegetables for your garden:
Radishes – I love radishes sliced or diced in a salad or on a vegetable tray. You can also roast or sautéed radishes with chives or garlic in olive oil, and be sure to add lots of your favorite seasoning.
Lettuce – If you love a fresh salad and BLTs in the summer like I do, you will be planting lots of lettuce. You can grow lettuce in your row garden, raised beds, pots, containers, lined baskets, colanders and any other container that will drain. There’s Black Seeded Simpson, Leaf Bowl, Romaine, Butter Crunch (one of my favorites),
Spinach – I love fresh spinach in a salad or in my smoothies. I add a banana, a handful of spinach and frozen berries with almond milk for a refreshing smoothie.
Squash – I love squash fried, in casseroles, sliced and baked in the oven with a parmesan cheese topping. Yummy! And, you don’t more than a plant or two. They are heavy producers.
Cucumbers – I love fresh cucumbers. I use them in salads, vegetable trays and infused in water with fresh basil. Cucumber water is so refreshing on a hot summer day.
Swiss Chard – Personally, I’m not a fan of swiss chard unless it’s in a smoothie. I basically use it in the same manner that I use spinach, with a banana, handful of frozen berries and almond milk. It makes a very healthy breakfast drink. And, I love the colorful stems on this veggie. So pretty.
Green Beans – My family loves green beans at family dinners. Also, I love using them in my vegetable soup in the winter.
Scallions – Great in stir fry, potato soup, chopped on a baked potato or in salads.
Beets – My mother, may she rest in peace, loved beets in vinegar. My sister and a cousin love them as well. Me, not so much. But, I will plant a few for family.
Broccoli – Another delicious vegetable that can be used on vegetable trays, fried or in a stir fry. It finds a place in my beef and broccoli stir fry often.
Zucchini – Zucchini is very similar to squash. I use zucchini in casseroles, and it make a delicious zucchini bread.
Finally, I hope that you will plant a few of these fast growing vegetables in your garden this year. You will be harvesting fresh and delicious vegetables in no time.
