Vegetables

18 crops

Takes some care
Bell Pepper
A sweet, warm-season pepper that can be picked green or left to ripen to its final color.
- Full sun
- 70 to 85 days
- 5 gal pot or bigger
- 18 in apart
Takes some care
Broccoli
A cool-season cabbage-family crop grown for tight green flower buds.
- Full sun
- 8 to 10 in apart
Takes some care
Cabbage
A cool-season leaf crop that wraps its inner leaves into a firm head.
- Full sun
- 15 to 18 in apart
Takes some care
Carrot
A root crop that asks for little except loose, stone free ground and patience while it germinates.
- Full sun
- 70 to 80 days
- 2 to 4 in apart
Takes some care
Chili Pepper
A warm-season pepper grown for pods that range from gently warm to very hot.
- Full sun
- 70 to 120 days
- 5 gal pot or bigger
- 12 to 24 in apart
Takes some care
Cucumber
A warm-season vine grown for crisp green fruit that is picked before it turns yellow.
- Full sun
- Grows in a pot
- 8 to 12 in apart
Easy
Garlic
A hardy bulb usually planted as separate cloves in fall and harvested the next summer.
- Full sun
- 3 to 4 in apart
Easy
Green Beans
A warm-season crop picked while the pods are crisp and the seeds inside are still small.
- Full sun
- 50 to 60 days
- Grows in a pot
- 3 to 4 in apart
Easy
Green Onion
An onion grown for its mild green stalks and small white base instead of a dry storage bulb.
- Full sun
- Grows in a pot
- 2 to 4 in apart
Easy
Kale
A cold-tough leafy green that can keep making harvests well into fall.
- Full sun
- Grows in a pot
- 8 to 12 in apart
Easy
Lettuce
A fast, cool weather leaf crop that you can pick from for weeks. It is at its best in spring and autumn, and turns bitter in a hot, dry spell.
- Part sun
- 50 to 70 days
- 1 gal pot or bigger
- 5 to 12 in apart
Takes some care
Onion
A cool-season plant grown into a bulb that is dried, cured and stored after the tops fall.
- Full sun
- 3 to 4 in apart
Easy
Peas
A cool-season vine grown for sweet seeds or tender edible pods.
- Full sun
- 55 to 70 days
- Grows in a pot
- 1 to 3 in apart
Takes some care
Potato
A cool-season vegetable grown from small seed potatoes or pieces, with the harvest forming out of sight under loose soil.
- Full sun
- 90 to 120 days
- 8 to 12 in apart
Easy
Radish
A quick, cool-season root crop that is ready in weeks when soil stays loose and moist.
- Full sun
- 25 to 35 days
- Grows in a pot
- 2 to 4 in apart
Easy
Spinach
A fast, cool-season leaf crop that tastes best before warm, long days make it flower.
- Full sun
- Grows in a pot
- 2 to 4 in apart
Takes some care
Tomato
A warm season fruit that almost everyone treats as a vegetable, and the crop most people try first. It needs heat, steady water and something to lean on.
- Full sun
- 50 to 85 days
- 5 gal pot or bigger
- 24 to 36 in apart
Easy
Zucchini
A fast, warm-season summer squash picked while the skin and seeds are still tender.
- Full sun
- 50 to 65 days
- 24 to 36 in apart