Limited Vegetable Garden Space? Try These Top Twenty Plant Picks
As gardeners, we often have grandiose dreams about creating the perfect garden that expands as far as the eye can imagine, let alone see. However, we may be limited by time, space, or both. Yet, we long for truly fresh vegetables as well as the unique kind of therapy that only a garden offers. Some plants, such as corn and full-size watermelons, will gobble up valuable garden space, so we need plants that are space-wise and productive: hence, my top twenty list of recommendations of vegetables and the occasional herb, in no particular order.
1. Beefsteak tomatoes
2. Roma tomatoes
3. Zucchini, bush variety: one or two plants will be plenty
4. Yellow crook neck variety: again, one or two plants will suffice
5. Green beans, bush variety or pole variety: the latter will make excellent use of vertical space
6. Wax beans, bush variety or, better yet, pole variety, for the reason mentioned above
7. Yard-long beans: these are a pole variety that produce well and look impressive
8. Swiss chard: once established, it is hard to kill and can withstand warmer temperatures
9. Jalapeno peppers
10. Sweet banana peppers
11. Baby watermelons, grown vertically
12. Japanese eggplant
13. pickling cucumbers, grown vertically
14. slicing cucumbers, grown vertically
15. dill, to go with all of those cucumbers
16. asparagus: these perennials, once established, will produced for up to thirty years
17. basil: this herb enhances nearby growing tomatoes, and it is a must for fresh pesto lovers
18. spearmint: grow this in a pot; otherwise, it will invade the rest of the garden
19. rosemary
20. Greek oregano
Feel free to mix and match from these ideas for a successful summer garden, small yet productive.
Are there any other space-saving plants I did not include here that I should have? Feel free to share your thoughts in the comments section.
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