Find your little patch of green
What you can grow
Find a plant that fits your space, sunlight, and patience.
12 crops: takes some care, 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
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
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
Raspberry
A perennial berry with long-lived roots and canes that live for only one or two growing seasons.
- Harvest
- Year after year
- Effort
- Season
- Cool
Rosemary
A woody evergreen herb that likes strong sun, sharp drainage and less water than most kitchen herbs.
- Harvest
- Year after year
- Effort
- Season
- Warm
Strawberry
A low perennial that fruits for years once established. The first summer is about getting the plants settled; the real crop comes after that.
- Harvest
- 300 to 400 daysfrom transplant
- 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
