Beginner gardening help (with my 4yr old)

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Broccoli
Kale
Spinach
Peas
Carrots
Beets if you like them

You can also plant some strawberry plants and cover them with straw or mulch for the winter for an early spring crop next year.

Good luck!

My son loves tomatoes. When we started doing a garden when he was little, we planted cherry tomatoes so he could go out there and pick them and eat them whenever he wanted and it was easy. He eats them like grapes.

In my head it was an easy effort/reward exhibition and something he could snack on anytime.

Thanks everyone, he was asking about broccoli yesterday and it seems like it’s the easiest and perfect crop to grow this time of year!

Question, if I just buy some fertilizer, move some mulch aside in my front flower bed, dig a hole, and plant the broccoli followed with general watering and such will I be good?

Any kind of special soil I need? Anything that grows will be a success here, not trying to win a vegetable contest

you should be able to grow broccoli in standard potting soil

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Question, if I just buy some fertilizer, move some mulch aside in my front flower bed, dig a hole, and plant the broccoli followed with general watering and such will I be good?

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If the soil in the bed is in good shape, it should be fine. Ive done that before. I think they call it foodscaping

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he was asking about broccoli yesterday and it seems like it’s the easiest and perfect crop to grow this time of year!

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Here's the good part about broccoli. The plant will form a main head and after you cut it off the plant, don't pull the plant since it will produce many more smaller "side shoots" of smaller pieces of broccoli that can be harvested for months after the main head is taken.

Also consider varieties of leaf lettuce that can be harvested by taking just a few leaves per plant and not taking the whole plant at once.

Also, if you like spinach, give Swiss Chard a try as it grows much larger than spinach, is more heat tolerant and will last into the spring months, much longer than spinach plants will. I use chard as a spinach substitute since the flavor is similar.

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if I just buy some fertilizer,

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easy with the fertilizer. Many people ruin garden plants with fertilizer.