You might be thinking that you only grow your precious salad components in their pots, but it’s better if you just grow them in veggie patches. More extensive areas for sowing seeds means that you can harvest more later on, right? You could grow some more low-maintenance, low-risk veggies if you just want to grow something, or you could go with more delicate ones to test yourself – it might even be worth it after you taste them!
When it comes to cooking, many vegetables can fill out the category for “delicious to eat,” and eggplant is one of those! You could use this as a topping on your pizzas. You could have them baked, or fried, whatever cooking method you could think of, they’ll be delicious! From that alone, don’t you think that if you add eggplant to your veggie patch, you’d be able to have delicious meals for a while when you’ve harvested them?
Now hold on a minute. Since there are many seeds in eggplants, shouldn’t they be considered fruits? Especially since they’re just shaped like elongated pears? Well, you could grow a lot of plants pretty much the same way – with at least 6 hours in full sun in well-draining soil, and the eggplant isn’t excluded from that. Make sure that the soil you use is slightly acidic. Around pH 5.5 to 7.2 would be perfect.
Speaking of vegetables that can be confused as fruits, comes the vegetable used in almost every greasy American food, you have tomatoes! Pizzas, pasta, burgers, some sauce concoction, barbecues, ketchup, and a whole lot more. Though it’s a thing that everyone seems to love to debate about, tomatoes are fruits – more so since they look like a mix between an orange and an apple, but let’s let this slide just one time.
It’s a fruit/vegetable that is highly sought out because it does have plenty of vitamins, but more importantly, it tastes terrific! Why wouldn’t you want to grow something that would elevate your cooking because of how good it tastes right? Like the eggplants, they’ll need a lot of time spent in full sun, but this time they’ll need some loamy but well-drained soil!
Since we are talking about growing vegetables for a healthier diet, you’re going to want some real volume when it comes to your meals, right? There’s nothing better to fill that role out with other than your basic leafy greens, lettuce! Not to mention how you could grow these in your veggie patch all year long, though you’ll need to shade them a little during the hotter seasons.
With so many other variants other than just the bare green leaves that you can grow, why would you get tired of wanting to grow the vegetable with high potential for something delicious? You could even just cut the leaves off as they grow, and they’ll continue to grow! You could grow these out all year long. Just keep them shaded when it gets too hot outside. You’ll need loose soil that drains well. Make sure to plant them a quarter of an inch deep!
Try your hand at growing the most delicious veggie crop! They’re relatively easy to grow, and they’re going to give back to you tenfold as long as you grow them correctly! You’ll have so many culinary applications when you’re going to use potatoes in your cooking! As a snack like fries or wedges, as a side like mashed potatoes or potato salad, and even as the main entree like loaded baked potatoes or even latkes!
You’ll be planting these into the ground as well, so you’re going to want to prepare some compost or some loose and fertile soil so your potatoes could flourish! These are the epitome of low-maintenance, low-risk vegetables to grow since you won’t need to pour in much effort when growing them! Again, you’ll need full sun!
Why wouldn’t you love carrots? You could use them in your salads, in your soups, in your stocks, in your roasts, and even in your stuffings! Not to mention how they can be used in sweeter ways like in your cake or even as juice! This root vegetable also comes in different forms that could pack a stronger punch of flavor or maybe even give you a different color, which might amaze you – though they’ll still have that distinctive carrot taste.
When choosing the soil for your carrots, you should clear the soil of any rock – big or small, as well as the larger pieces of bark. If you find any smaller plant fibers in the soil, then you could mix that in the soil for “enrichment.” Once again, like all of the other veggies on the list, plant in full sun and well-draining soil.
Suppose you’re thinking of growing your own five kinds of vegetables for your recommended diet. In that case, you’re already on a good path to having a veggie patch! Though you could think about only starting with five vegetables for your garden, you don’t have to stop there! As long as you have the confidence to grow as many as you can, then that’s alright too!