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When you grow your own fruits and vegetables, you get all the fun of gardening plus the garden-to-table goodness and nutrition that only comes with homegrown harvests.
The following eight easy-to-grow edibles show just how simple growing and enjoying your own fruits and vegetables can be:
1. Bell Peppers
Bell peppers start out green, but they mature to red, orange, yellow, purple and even chocolate brown.
Bell peppers
Pick them early and they’ll still color up, but they won’t get any sweeter.
Learn all about growing your own bell peppers at home.
2. Blackberries and Raspberries
Caneberries, such as blackberries and raspberries, provide tasty fruits for you and your family, and provide treats for birds and butterflies.
Blackberries and Raspberries
Pruning is important, but nature keeps that simple, too.
Learn how to grow blackberries and raspberries, including how to prune.
3. Cabbage
For most gardeners, summer comes too fast to grow cool-loving cabbage from seed.
Cabbage
Even if summer arrives before you have prepared to plant cabbage seeds, you can still plant mid to late summer, and you will have a bountiful crop come fall.
Learn all about homegrown red cabbage, including making kraut!
4. Cucumbers
Vining cucumbers require some space, unless you grow them in containers.
Cucumbers
Add a trellis, and your crop stays healthier and more productive.
For a taste of summer, learn more about growing cucumbers, in containers and in the ground.
5. Garlic
Garlic can be planted in spring, but fall-planted garlic leads to bigger, better crops.
Garlic
Be sure garlic is treated to enough chilly weather while growing or the bulb-like heads won’t separate into cloves.
Learn all about growing delicious garlic at home.
6. Strawberries
Strawberries are flavorful edibles that come back year after year.
You can choose from many types.
Strawberries
Some send out “runners” that root and create baby plants, increasing your patch for free.
Learn how to grow your own tasty strawberries in your home garden.
7. Tomatoes
Whether you like big, beefy tomatoes or tiny cherry and grape types, these heat-loving tropicals are simple to grow in large decorative containers or veggie plots.
Tomatoes
Plant cages help keep them healthy and make harvests easier.
Just follow these easy steps to grow your own tomatoes. – Gardentech.
