! the easiest ones are lettuce, zucchini, tomato, beans, carrotts, capsicum, eggplants,cucumber, even pumpkin and much more plants that are so easy to grow. sweet potatoes, onions and much more!
Herbs are always good, they provide scent, as well as a visual. Otherwise, lettuce plants, carrots, onions or chives, one of my favorites though is cucumbers. I guess those don’t really work well on a raised bed, but you can do so much with them! Yum!
Early planting of radishes, spinach, peas, lettuce and carrots are a good start. You can
eat the radish in 21 days after planting! When the soil has warmed up and there is no frost, plant a few bush bean seeds or started plants
of tomatoes and cucumbers. Successive sowings of radish and lettuce, enable a contiuous supply all summer. Annual plants
mentioned above are the best and easiest, as no need for dividing the perennial plants after a few years (eg chives, asparagus, etc)
Asparagus is nice but do not expect to harvest any until the third year after planting.
I have raised beds too and I grow green beans, peas, snow peas, zucchini, carrots, tomatoes, acorn squash, lettuce, radishes, and green onions.
I have grown corn and potatoes but they take up a lot of room and about that time they are cheap to buy in the local produce stands.
! the easiest ones are lettuce, zucchini, tomato, beans, carrotts, capsicum, eggplants,cucumber, even pumpkin and much more plants that are so easy to grow. sweet potatoes, onions and much more!
tomatoes…. and asparagus which is a perennial and will come back year after year… also lettuce is so easy to grow..
Herbs are always good, they provide scent, as well as a visual. Otherwise, lettuce plants, carrots, onions or chives, one of my favorites though is cucumbers. I guess those don’t really work well on a raised bed, but you can do so much with them! Yum!
The bottom line is plant what you like to eat or freeze or can simply because food in the stores has skyrocketed so any of it will be worth it. I myself planted fruit trees and a nectarine. granny smith/fuji bartlet pear/red pear. Those are the ones we like plus they had to have good pollinators with them.
Tomatoes are good potatoes, lettuce strawberries, onions, carrots. Garlic.
Some of these can be frozen or canned.
The best thing to do it browse an online catalog to see what catches your eye.
Browse a little and enjoy
Burpee Seed
http://www.burpee.com/home.do
Park Seeds
http://www.parkseed.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/StoreCatalogDisplay?catalogId=10066&storeId=10101&langId=-1&mainPage=page1&cid=ppp000009y&s_kwcid=TC-1186-{ovkey}-{ovmtc:S:S:S}-141-143
Burgess Seed
http://www.eburgess.com/index.asp
Lettuce, Spinach, peas, tomatoes and carrots are all easy to grow and good for lots of things.
If you take care of your garden most anything will grow at the right time of year. Grow what you like to eat.
Early planting of radishes, spinach, peas, lettuce and carrots are a good start. You can
eat the radish in 21 days after planting! When the soil has warmed up and there is no frost, plant a few bush bean seeds or started plants
of tomatoes and cucumbers. Successive sowings of radish and lettuce, enable a contiuous supply all summer. Annual plants
mentioned above are the best and easiest, as no need for dividing the perennial plants after a few years (eg chives, asparagus, etc)
Asparagus is nice but do not expect to harvest any until the third year after planting.
I have raised beds too and I grow green beans, peas, snow peas, zucchini, carrots, tomatoes, acorn squash, lettuce, radishes, and green onions.
I have grown corn and potatoes but they take up a lot of room and about that time they are cheap to buy in the local produce stands.