Looking for easy vegetables to grow? It seems most people are trying to eat healthier food, however, with the increasing cost of food it can be difficult to afford to eat well. If you are truly dedicated to improving your diet with more healthy foods you may want to think about starting your own vegetable garden.

By growing your own vegetables you can pick and choose what you would like to include in your diet. Additionally, you will save yourself a lot of money by growing your own veggies. However, one thing that you do not want is to choose veg. that are difficult to grow. Instead, you want to plant crops that will flourish easily and that will make it successfully from your garden to your table.

Radishes are a very easy vegetable to grow – great for kids too. They are quick to grow and can be pulled and used straight away; perfect to eat on their own for a tasty treat, or to add a wonderful crunch, flavour and colour to salads.

Speaking of salads one of the most popular and easy vegetables to grow is lettuce. The great thing about lettuce is that you can plant it at almost any point in the season. You need to be careful as lettuce is very appealing to slugs to munch on. However, if you take care to protect your crops against these voracious pests you can be sure that you will have plenty of lettuce to make salads out of.

Cherry tomatoes are another common ingredient for salads and other dishes alike. Cherry tomatoes are pretty easy to grow. While you can grow them from seed it is often easier to visit your local garden centre to pick up young tomato plants. These can be planted either into fertile soil or into grow bags on your patio or against a wall. Tomatoes like sun and warmth so place them on a south facing wall or in the open to ensure big healthy crops of ripe fruits.

Potatoes are a root vegetable that grows well in home vegetable gardens. These are best grown from bought disease free seed tubers as potatoes suffer many diseases. All that you need to do is place these in a trench so that you can surround them with soil and later earth up. Take care when growing potatoes as you need to water them quite frequently to ensure good growth.

Lastly, carrots are another wonderfully colorful root vegetable that come in all sort colours and shapes. Watch out for carrot root fly as these can destroy your lovely carrots with their black tunnels. However, a simple 40-50cm barrier of plastic/ fleece around your carrots wll protect them.