10 Fastest Growing Crops for Your Garden

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1. i am in that camp ???? , hot cold hot cold , last yr it was in the 30's on May 8th ☹️. I had to blanket my horse for the first time in her life of 25 years , because she was already all the way shed out .
   This year seems to be in the same pattern . ????

2. Very informative! I love in a suburb of Detroit and don't usually plant my garden until May. This year we are going with raised beds and I want to get them set up soon! I want to try okra this year. We love it but have never grown it. Do you have any videos for picking it? Thanks for sharing your knowledge!!

3. My garden is mostly all planted. Waiting to pull the onions to complete the planting. Started pulling today. And yes – Zone 8B Texas. And Brian – MY OKRA seeds started sprouting TODAY. LOL.

4. You have very informative content. I was trying to get started with my first year of growing on my own, however Tennessee weather has experienced to much unseasonably weather. I don't know what I will do now. Thanks for sharing ????

5. I planted potatoes a month ago, and so far out of nine, so far, I only have 2 plants. I am not sure whether I should replant or wait longer. I will be transplanting tomatoes and planting seeds early next week as spring seems to finally be here after fooling us at the end of March. Fortunately, we have better longer-term forecasts now, so I didn't plant more than potatoes. My tomato plants are getting tall in cups under the grow light, but that will allow me to plant deeper.

6. FYI – Here in coastal South Carolina, Zone 8, we've had very little winter with only a handful of nights in the low 30s. Normal last frost is mid April but this year blooms started in mid March. I've planted about 10 days early and the forecast is for lows in the 40s for a few more nights and that's it. I got an early start on my raised garden as a result. 🙂

7. Quick growing and successive and selectively harvested portions – less than 70 days growing period –
   Full days of salad and stews/soups with sprouts, leaves, greens, stalks, bulbs, tubers, roots, and flowers/buds

   Sprouts – sweet potato, sugar pea

   Leaves – mustard, turnip, beet, land/water cress, sweet potato (not yam), hosta (research which species !), stinging nettle, radish, daikon radish, horseradish (sparingly !), parsley, cilantro/coriander/Chinese parsley/Mexican parsley, rose leaves, tea leaves (camellia sinensis), raspberry, blackberry, grape, wild grape

   Spice leaves – oregano, thyme, rosemary, marjoram, sage, galangal, lemon grass, mints, basils, balms, hyssop, horehound, comfrey, borage

   Baby greens – pearl onion, green onion, garlic, chive, shallot, scallion, leek, regular onion, Egyptian onion, walking onion, wild ramp (onion), wild ransom (garlic), microgreens

   Baby leaves – collard, cabbage, kale, Brussel sprouts, kohlrabi, tree kale, tree collard, tree lettuce, spinach, Malabar spinach (less rubbery), chard, lettuce, miner's lettuce, amaranth, lamb's foot, cauliflower, broccoli, broccolini/Chinese broccoli/rabe, (kudzu)

   Baby stalks – celery, celeriac, fennel, anise, amaranth, pigweed, lamb's foot, stinging nettle, cat tail

   Baby bulbs – pearl onions, green onion, garlic, shallot, scallion, leek, regular onion, Egyptian onion, walking onion, certain species of edible lily (tiger lily and day lily – research !)

   Baby tubers – potato, sweet potato, yam, yacon, oca, yam bean (jicama), sunchoke, Jerusalem artichoke, beet, turnip, rutabaga, ginger, turmeric, cat tail

   Baby roots – carrot, beet, salsify, radish, daikon radish, horseradish, burdock/(gobo), taro

   Flowers/buds – dandelion flower/bud, artichoke flower/bud, squash/zucchini flower, select daisy flower bud (research !), Egyptian onion bud, walking onion bud, lotus

   Don't wait for full maturity with seed bolting having woody and rubbery vegetables – when you can harvest and consume every day fresh and tender produce !

8. Me too! I am in Northern California and we just got done with all that rain, that i am very grateful for!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

9. I'm in the Portland, OR area, zone 8b, and we are a good month behind this year. It's still cold and rainy, although we made it to 55º today. We've still got nights predicted down into the 30s through the next week at least.

10. Zone 7a in middle Tennessee. We're blessed with rain, but the long range forecast keeps giving me – cool day, cool day, HOT day, rainy day, rainy day – but the nights are still going down into the low 40's. I have plants ready to transplant that I'm still holding inside because it's either too cold for them at night or I'm afraid they'll drown with all of this rain.

11. Our snow is mostly melted & its been above zero at night. we got the soaker hoses out today & got them more or less set up & figured out what parts of the watering octopus need to be replaced. Hopefully planting later this week.

12. We are way behind this year but I have faith I’ll see the ground soon, or maybe just the fence line :)). I grow all that you mentioned. I’m growing more zucchini this year. I discovered dehydrating and zucchini pizza shells (make the shells and freeze). I’m out of both right now. I also want to put in the plug for the refrigerator pickles from the next level homestead channel. I made them last summer and they are de-li-cious!!! Thank you.

13. PS if you don’t mind I have a question in another post after this. Thank you. Here in NC zone 7b about 1 hour 15 minutes west of Charlotte our Feb was warming than our March. It’s been a weird year. All my shrubs were leafing out in Feb and first of March. I was so worried cause then it got cold. Lucky all survived. They should not have leafed out until at least April. We’ve were 3 weeks ahead of Spring then cold returned.

14. I live in the Willamette Valley in Oregon. Our spring has been down in the 30s at night and sometimes up to the 50s. We’ve been getting a lot of cold rain, wind and hail. I just makes it very hard to put anything out in the garden.

15. You are so right about the Spring season being behind schedule. Last Monday, The weather forecast looked so good, I put my tomato seedlings in my cold frame. Last night we were told to expect -2 C. I covered my cold frame with a thick plastic. My husband assured me that they will be just fine. Well, instead of -2 C it turned out to be -6 C!!!. They all froze. So now, it's back to square one. Luckily, I had some more seeds so I could start over again.

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17. What ? ! Brian is planting Oprah !!! Hmmm, planting Oprah might get you a money bush !

18. Oh yes I have snow! I am zone 5a, western mountains of Maine I need a greenhouse!

19. Texas. Or Galveston area? Warm n dry, warm n wet. Cool and wet. Like a roller coaster with a car wash, hair dryer, then an air-conditioner blowing on my feet…
    I've some pole beans up to 6ft though. Kentucky wonders

20. beets are about 3 weeks away from harvest here in Texas

21. if el nino appears the whole year could have rain on the west coast…

22. I am I Pennsylvania zone 6 and all I could plant was potato lettuce and peas. Our last frost date is May 15th. This is my first year for potatoes and peas. I hope they grow. Still having nights in the 30s.

23. What do you do with your fennel? How do you use it?

24. I grow most of those things. Good tip on the arugula!

25. We have been dealing with snow and cold weather here in Salt Lake City, Utah. The snow took out my greenhouse, so we are going to have to replace it with another greenhouse. Which we already have along with lumber for a wood frame to brace the pipes that come with the greenhouse

26. 15 days – Common Purslane
    20 days – Fenugreek greens
    30 days – Radishes (Sparkler variety)
    50 days – Turnips (Early Purple Top variety)

27. Yep in Texas things are normal. Watched your video on rats. I have not gotten one tomatoes and have lost 7 nice green tomatoes. One zucchini I picked fed the two of us for 2 meals. I was on vacation for 6 days in Northern California. Too hot now for lettuce. Mine is about done. I do love arugula but too hot here in 9b.

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