Find your little patch of green
What you can grow
Find a plant that fits your space, sunlight, and patience.
25 crops: full sun
Basil
A tender summer herb that grows fast, hates cold nights, and gives more the more often you cut it.
- Harvest
- 50 to 75 days
- Effort
- Season
- Warm
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
Blueberry
A long-lived fruit shrub that needs much more acidic soil than most garden crops.
- Harvest
- Year after year
- Effort
- Season
- Cool
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
Cilantro
A cool-weather herb with fresh leaves called cilantro and dried seeds called coriander.
- Harvest
- 45 to 80 days
- Effort
- Season
- Cool
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
Parsley
A leafy herb with slow-sprouting seed and a long harvest season once established.
- 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
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
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
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
Thyme
A small woody evergreen herb that thrives in sun and dry, sharply drained soil.
- Harvest
- Year after year
- Effort
- Season
- Warm
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
