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Garden & Grow · 🌸 Spring

Easy things to grow if you've never grown anything

Five forgiving plants, a pot each, and no special equipment.

Low cost · Beginner · 4 min read

Small pots of young herb and salad plants on a sunny doorstep

Everyone's first garden should be small enough to keep alive. Five pots is plenty, and four out of five going well is a very good year.

The forgiving five

  • Cut-and-come-again salad — picking it is what keeps it going
  • Mint, in its own pot, because it will take over anything else
  • Courgettes — one plant is usually more than enough for a household
  • Sunflowers, for the height and for anyone under ten
  • Radishes, ready quickly enough to hold your attention

The only three rules

Give them the brightest spot you have, water pots more than you think, and pick things while they're small. Almost everything else is detail.

A note on timing

Timing can vary depending on where you live and local conditions — in cooler parts of the UK things often happen a little later.

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