[Give it a go]

If there were a top 5 list of easy crops  what would be in yours?

I’m sure us beginners would appreciate your views 

[peterjf]

beetroot , spuds , radish , runner beans, and good old tomatoes

[Pompey Spud]

Spuds...Chard...French/Runners...turks turban/bns/pumpkins.....courgettes

[Yabba]

leeks, onions, garlic, chillis, courgette, runners ... ohh, that's 6

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[diggerjoe]

leeks , runners, beetroot, sweet coen and .........courgettes!

[mumofstig]

The easiest for me I think are, potatoes, onions from sets, runner beans, courgette/pumpkin family and short self-supporting peas

[Y.E.A.H]

French beans
squash
carrots
tomatoes
sweetcorn 

[andreadon]

tomatoes are hard!

i got about my first successful harvest last year from 6 plants and i've been trying for about 8 years!

my easy ones are

carrots
courgettes
potatoes
raspberries (can we include perennials?)
runner beans

 

[BostonInbred]

Turnips
Leeks
Cabbages
Chard
French Beans

[nipper31]

Courgettes are really easy...
Strawberries
Beetroot
Sweetcorn
Radish

[Kristen]

Interesting thread.

I wonder if knowing what folk regard as Medium Difficulty and Hard, and thing that people would avoid (no flavour, lot of work for very little gain, takes up huge amount of space for the weight of harvest etc) would be of help to people just starting out and trying to decide what to grow?

[BostonInbred]

Dont bother with:

Perpetual Spinach (vast amounts of work to get small portions)
Peas (you have to grow acres to fill a pint pot)

And purely based on utterly disgusting tase, i wouldn't waste land growing:
Swedes
Butternut Squash
Pumpkins

In fact the only thing ive ever tasted that makes me retch more than pumpkin is Hammerhead Shark. To duplicate the taste of Hammerhead Shark, boil newspapers in used motor oil for four hours.

[savbo]

Dont bother with:

Perpetual Spinach (vast amounts of work to get small portions)
.

that's odd - we had about a dozen plants, POP to grow and they've kept us in spinach for a year now - and they're not done yet

[Christine]

Dont bother with:
Perpetual Spinach (vast amounts of work to get small portions)
Peas (you have to grow acres to fill a pint pot)

And purely based on utterly disgusting tase, i wouldn't waste land growing:
Swedes
Butternut Squash
Pumpkins

If you get your peas right you can pick twice a day when they get going, have a freezer full and then lots of stuff for the compost heap. Peas is good.
Swede is great - essential in any winter vegetable stew and if you thinks its disgusting then you maybe need a new chef in your house   
Daughter makes a mean butternut squash soup 

There we go - different opinion.

[plot6b]

French beans
squash
carrots
tomatoes
sweetcorn 

Ditto Blackcap