Easiest fruit or herb to grow

Whats really easy, my definiton of easy being low maintenance in case i forget to water it etc.

Please pick one for me from this list.

http://www.hedging.co.uk/acatalog/Index_Fruit_19.html

Also, I heard mint was easy to grow ??

 

Menthas or Rosemary? how about a Bay tree?

 

not sure what list you mean-it`s a link to a supplier.

 

If you're worried about forgetting to water it, go for one of the drought hardy Mediterranean herbs. Rosemary is always a winner.

 

okay thanks

whats the easiest fruit to grow

and can i just go to tesco, get the rosemary, and plant that, the one in a pot ?

 

You're best going to a nursery or garden centre and buying a rosemary plant of a decent size. The ones in supermarkets have a shelf life (although they can be kept alive with lots of TLC).

It will need some watering!

 

The easiest fruit is definitely strawberries or blackberries-but be very careful with blackberries they can quickly take over into brambles-a big pot is safest.

 

If you mean the overcrowded force grown ones intended for you to use shortly after purchase, I would avoid them if you are looking for low maintenance. The poor things haven't had the best start in life. They are seriously overcrowded, then grown with limited light and a lot of warmth to force them on. You can save them, but it involves carefully seperating all the individual plants, re-potting them individually, trimming bits off the top, regular watering, lots of supervision to spot when things are going wrong, then hardening off to go outside.

Easier to just by some from the garden centre. You can often get them for less than a couple of quid, and they are already hardened off so they can just go straight into the garden.

 

Okay, so Ill start growing rosemary and blackberries. I thought currants were the easiest fruit to grow ? anyway, can someone give me a step by step guide on how to grow blackberries. The only advanced gardening technique I know is the paper towel method to germinate/ sprout the seeds. I dont know what sow seeds means etc etc . My garden has various plants and trees in it, so I presume the soil in my garden is average ?

 

Whats really easy, my definiton of easy being low maintenance in case i forget to water it etc.




Hey fuggles,
It partly depends on what you are growing for.
if you like medicinal herbs, then chamomile is almost a weed in my garden, ie pretty easy to grow as it looks after itself. Comfrey is similarly not difficult to grow, but choose the cultivar 'bocking 14' or the plant is liable to spread and become a nuisance. The whole of the mint family previously mentioned are all pretty easy to grow, but are best in a pot to conatain the vigorous underground stems from which they spread like wildfire after a season or two.
Other relatives of the mints already mentioned such as rosemary as well as lavender, thyme, sage and hyssop are all pretty easy.
Food crops dont come much easier than potato, jerusalem artichoke, beans, peas, radish, courgettes and beetroot.
Salads such as rocket, mizuna, lettuces are all pretty easy,but none as easy as sprouted seeds... harvest after a week...now thats easy! :gnthb:

 

Well blackberries are very easy, I use three canes equidistant in a large pot and have them pointing like a wigwam and have one blackberry plant in the centre, then I bring it out and tie it around the canes upwards like a spiral.

The pots you can pick up for about 3 quid from Wilkinsons-cheapest I`ve found, and blackberries can be found in any garden centre similarly cheaply.

 

look in homebase, they have easy to grow (with instruction) fruits :-)

claire/lollipop - I used that for my wineberry and it worked excellently last year :-)

 

Hi Mztrouble-it was a happy accident for me more than wisdom-I had to find someway of it not scratching as my kids picked the fruit, and you are right it is a very successful way of growing these kind of fruits-I will probably do a couple more of them and try the raspberries in the same way too-mmmmmmmm fresh raspberries eaten whilst their still warm from the sun can`t wait.

I will give the wineberry a go too-thanks for that.

 

if you like fresh raw garden peas they're dead easy to grow , im a novice aswell an i put some in a half whisky barrel last year, watered em now and again then had a couple of weeks eatin em fresh sat in the garden, makes it a bit windy later tho
:lollol:
didnt bother saving any for dinners, its easier to get birdseye!