Vegetables for the Beginning Gardener

If you’re a beginning gardener, start small. Vegetables that are good for the first-time gardener include bush beans, loose-leaf lettuce, onions, peas, peppers, summer squash, Swiss chard, and tomatoes. Plant onions from onion sets (which are immature onion bulbs) and plant tomatoes and peppers from purchased seedlings. Peas and beans are easily grown from seed, as are summer squash and Swiss chard.