Top 10 Fastest Growing Vegetables of All Time for Your Garden
Having a sustainable home garden food source with the top fastest-growing vegetables is helpful in our present-day society. Recent world circumstances have made us keenly aware of the need we have to learn to grow our own food (at least some of it anyway).
Take a quick look at this list of the 10 fastest and easy-to-grow vegetables and get started today!
Knowing where to start and how to start growing food is half the battle; the other half is getting a vegetable garden planted.
For instance, by selecting some of these top 10 fastest-growing vegetables of all time, you will be able to harvest fresh food quicker, and that will keep you motivated to continue gardening!
Fastest Growing Vegetables
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1. Arugula
Arugula has a peppery flavor and a crunchy texture, making it useful in both raw green salads and cooked recipes.
Baby arugula leaves pair well with any cooked beef recipe, like meatloaf or as part of a micro salad for steak.
Immature arugula leaves are a nutrient-rich microgreen that is ready to harvest in 10-14 days. Mature leaves are ready in 30 days.
2. Beets
Beets are a delicious root vegetable that is ready to harvest in 60 days and is packed with nutrients. These are easy to grow in home gardens with both the tops and roots being edible.
3. Bush Beans
Beans can grow as vines or a bush-type plant. Bush beans are green beans that grow fast on small bushes.
Bush beans are ready to harvest in 40-50 days and can be eaten raw or cooked… (and even blanched and frozen, if you have any extras!) edible.
4. Carrots
Early small baby carrots are ready to harvest 30 days after sowing seeds in the ground or in a container. Both the green tops and the crunchy carrots are edible, so this fast-growing vegetable gives you 2 foods from the same garden space.
Two crops of carrots can be planted each year, making them a vegetable that you can enjoy fresh from the garden several months each year.
Take a look at how to store baby carrots in the refrigerator or main crop carrots stored in peat moss, river sand or wood shavings.
5. Cucumbers
Cucumbers grow rapidly and produce abundantly. This fast-growing vegetable will be ready to eat in 50 days after planting.
Eat some fresh, and when the vines produce too many cucumbers, make pickles to enjoy later.
Take a look at Easy Refrigerator Pickles {no canning ☺}
6. Green Onions
Green onion seeds can be sown in a container or in the ground. Either way, you’ll be ready to harvest small, fresh onions in 30 days. Plant seeds every 2 weeks for a continual onion harvest.
7. Lettuces
Lettuce, either the loose-leaf variety or the head variety, grows fast.
Loose-leaf lettuce is ready to eat as microgreens in 10-14 days; head lettuce is ready to harvest in 30 days.
Since lettuce is a cool-season vegetable, it can be planted indoors year-round or outdoors in spring and late summer.
Grow Cut & Come Again Lettuces
8. Radishes
Radishes reach maturity and are ready to eat in 28 days. Both the green tops and crunchy roots are edible and nutritious.
Sow radish seeds every 2 weeks for a continual harvest and harvest some of the immature leaves for use in a salad or stir fry.
9. Zucchini & Summer Squash
Zucchini and summer squash are fast growers and heavy producers. Sow seeds directly into prepared garden soil in late spring.
Yellow squash, crookneck squash, and zucchini will be ready to harvest in 35 days.
10. Spinach
Sow spinach seeds directly into prepared garden soil or plant them in a container, and they are ready to eat in 4-6 weeks.
Immature spinach leaves are ready to harvest and eat as microgreens in 10-14 days.
Climates with mild winters can grow spinach year-round. That is to say, consider sowing seeds every 2 weeks in spring and late summer for a continual spinach harvest.
In Conclusion:
Above all, just get started in thinking about growing a garden in the first step. The next step is getting your vegetable garden planted.
With these top 10 fastest-growing vegetables of all time, you will be able to begin harvesting fresh food sooner, which will keep you motivated to continue gardening.
Oh! Just think of the deliciously fresh salads that you can grow!
