What fruits and vegetables are easy to care for? If I plant them in my backyard this Spring.

Carrots, Radishes, Peas and Beans.

Tomatoes are pretty easy to grow with not a lot of effort on my part.

Eggplant, cucumber, zucchini, pumpkin, and other squash.

Pretty much what’s been said here.. doesn’t take a lot of work, but you will end up having to trim back the tomato plants (and possibly the zucchini) because they will grow into huge, chaotic bushes. The zucchini will be because it’ll wrap itself around your other veggie plants. Aside from that, all you’ll really have to do is water and weed.

Cabbage is fairly easy and sunflowers are about the easiest thing on the planet (you can harvest the seeds).

Why do you capitalize random words? The word “son” is not a proper noun…

Bell peppers and strawberries are easy to take care of. You could also try an herb garden.

Lettuce and other salad greens are a good place to start, low maintenance.

@MissAnthrope Tomato plants? The bigger the better I reckon, more fruit, definitely require lots of water although I would not water the foliage, only the soil, to keep blight at bay. I’ve never seen a zucchini plant that will wrap itself around your other veggie plants , the only zucchini plants I have seen and grown are a bush variety

@Adagio – I spent most of the summer working a pretty big veggie garden, so I picked up some handy knowledge. What I learned about tomatoes is that you should trim them back and you’ll get better tomatoes; actually you’re supposed to trim off the “bastards” which are offshoots of the main branches and stem. You should also trim the bottom branches off so that none of the foliage is touching the ground; this and watering only the ground will keep the blight away. Apparently, it’s transmitted through the foliage from the ground.

I don’t know what kind of zucchini my mom was growing, but it got somewhat crazy like the tomatoes tend to, it spread out and the curly viney parts did wrap around the other plants and in some cases where I didn’t catch it early enough, damaged the plants.

I havent seen onions yet, there easey, so is garlic… and potatos will anywhere

Yeah, potatoes. I get potatoes every year whether I want to or not, from when I threw some in the hollyhock patch back in the 80’s.

I’m a horrible gardener, and even I can grow tomatoes, strawberries, and zucchini. I also plant basil every year. This year I’m going to also plant some green peppers. We’ve also grown pumpkins by accident.

@MissAnthrope trim off the “bastards” And to think that for all these years I’ve called them laterals! I did remove them though, got that much right.

@Adagio – I’m not sure what they’re called here, but in Italy, they call them “bastards” and I kinda like it. :)

Haha, we call them “suckers” where I’m from.