easy/successful fruit and veg,?

Can anyone suggest any very easy and foolproof/failsafe fruit and veg to grow please? I'm a container grower and no greenhouse.

usually I do courgettes and green beans. Last year I did carrots for the first time. Any suggestions for other fruit and veg please?

I've never had success with Strawberry bushes(usually buy the plants from garden centre, never grown from seed) - any advice?
I bought a blueberry Bush last year, we got a few berries off it but not loads, at the moment it is an approx 4ft tall "twig", do I need to do anything prepare it for this year?

Also last year I bought an apple tree from lidl, no fruit last year which I had expected none since its a young tree. Do I need to prepare it for this year? Should I expect no fruit again this year?

Thanks in advance!

 

Off the top of my head:

Potatoes - Bags
Onion Sets - Raised Bed
Carrots - Raised Bed
Garlic - Raised Bed

 

I think that the two easiest veg to grow are onions and garlic.

You can buy onions sets (they look like bulbs/mini onions), you just stick them in the ground or container with just the little whispey bit of the set/bulb sticking out of the soil/compost. They then send up a green shoot and will grow and grow until you decide to harvest them.

garlic, very similar! just buy some garlic bulbs from a garden centre (not a supermarket!) and then proceed to break the bulb up into its individual cloves. As with the onion sets above, stick them in the ground one by one but planted a little deeper so that they are about 1-2 inches below the soil/compost surface. Just make sure that the pointy bit is facing upwards.

I personally love pulling up an onion, cutting the green and roots off, giving it a quick wash and shoving it into a meal within minutes. You get a great strong fresh taste.

An advantage of growing these two above, you can store them for months!

 

Thanks folks. I rarely use garlic in cooking but it sounds like an easy grow for my little girl to help with at least!

The apple tree is "Apple (Malus)" from Lidl last year. My neighbour has an apple tree which fruited last year. I've just been reading about container gardening online and realise I need to get a much bigger pot for the apple tree.

Any advice with strawberry growing?

 

I would grow high value crops in containers, failing that high yielding crops. Runner Beans & courgettes would be top of my list, Carrots, Spuds and the like low down my list as they are cheap in the shops.

 

Hi Snowbaby

Glad you've found your way back here, kept seeing you on the wrong forums

Physalis might be fun to try, you get a lantern as well as an edible berry

http://www.fruitsinfo.com/Physalis-Exotic-fruits.php

Strawberries don't crop much in the first year, but should in the second and third. Give them a feed when they set fruit and net them to keep the Daughter birds off them

 

Lol ziggy, you said that before, I'm completely unaware that I've been on another site! You'll have to PM me to tell me what site it is please?

The Apple tree didn't have any other info. I just know it was a twig from lidl last year. Oops, it seems I've been making a huge mistake, the last 2 years I tried Strawberry plants but thought they died after the fruiting season and pulled them up to bin! I didn't know they are annual plants!

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Can't remember which one now, look at a few

Aww, thats a shame, they die back in the winter but come back in the spring.

 

Had a meal with those in my desert at the hotel I was staying in last week, prepared like this to make them look posh.

It's the other way round, annuals die at the end of season (except bi-annuals which die the following year) and perrenials keep on going. I hope you haven't been chucking the wrong ones out.

 

I've only ever done carrots, courgettes (dumped after the season), green beans (dumped), strawberries (you know they got dumped lol) and now my blueberry bush and apple trees

That's really odd Ziggy, I only ever use this site. Are you sure it's me and not someone with the same username lol

 

Courgettes and Beans only do a single season, so you couldn't have got any more out of them I'm afraid.

 

Tomatoes and salad crops do well in containers @Snowbaby

 

Onions are easy to grow but if you want more value for money I would recommend planting shallots instead. You get 5 bulbs for the price of one set planted compared to just digging up one white or red onion bulb.