A corner of the garden
Vegetables
Start with vegetables you enjoy eating, then compare sunlight, space and time to harvest below. Use the pot filter for a patio or balcony, or the easy filter for your first crop. Open a crop guide to check its full size and planting season before buying seeds.
Choose manageable crops for your first year or get your garden space ready.
17 crops: full sun
Bell Pepper
A sweet, warm-season pepper that can be picked green or left to ripen to its final color.
- Harvest
- 70 to 85 daysfrom transplant
- Effort
- Season
- Warm
Broccoli
A cool-season cabbage-family crop grown for tight green flower buds.
- Harvest
- 50 to 85 daysfrom transplant
- Effort
- Season
- Cool
Cabbage
A cool-season leaf crop that wraps its inner leaves into a firm head.
- Harvest
- 60 to 100 daysfrom transplant
- Effort
- Season
- Cool
Carrot
A root crop that asks for little except loose, stone free ground and patience while it germinates.
- Harvest
- 70 to 80 days
- Effort
- Season
- Cool
Chili Pepper
A warm-season pepper grown for pods that range from gently warm to very hot.
- Harvest
- 70 to 120 daysfrom transplant
- Effort
- Season
- Warm
Cucumber
A warm-season vine grown for crisp green fruit that is picked before it turns yellow.
- Harvest
- 50 to 70 days
- Effort
- Season
- Warm
Garlic
A hardy bulb usually planted as separate cloves in fall and harvested the next summer.
- Harvest
- 240 to 270 days
- Effort
- Season
- Cool
Green Beans
A warm-season crop picked while the pods are crisp and the seeds inside are still small.
- Harvest
- 50 to 60 days
- Effort
- Season
- Warm
Green Onion
An onion grown for its mild green stalks and small white base instead of a dry storage bulb.
- Harvest
- 50 days
- Effort
- Season
- Cool
Kale
A cold-tough leafy green that can keep making harvests well into fall.
- Harvest
- 50 to 55 days
- Effort
- Season
- Cool
Onion
A cool-season plant grown into a bulb that is dried, cured and stored after the tops fall.
- Harvest
- 100 to 120 days
- Effort
- Season
- Cool
Peas
A cool-season vine grown for sweet seeds or tender edible pods.
- Harvest
- 55 to 70 days
- Effort
- Season
- Cool
Potato
A cool-season vegetable grown from small seed potatoes or pieces, with the harvest forming out of sight under loose soil.
- Harvest
- 90 to 120 days
- Effort
- Season
- Cool
Radish
A quick, cool-season root crop that is ready in weeks when soil stays loose and moist.
- Harvest
- 25 to 35 days
- Effort
- Season
- Cool
Spinach
A fast, cool-season leaf crop that tastes best before warm, long days make it flower.
- Harvest
- 37 to 45 days
- Effort
- Season
- Cool
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.
- Harvest
- 50 to 85 daysfrom transplant
- Effort
- Season
- Warm
Zucchini
A fast, warm-season summer squash picked while the skin and seeds are still tender.
- Harvest
- 50 to 65 daysfrom transplant
- Effort
- Season
- Warm
