What Are Your Favorite Food Crops To Grow?
I've been gardening for a while, but I am no expert. It's been a long journey since the days I first started taking gardening a little more seriously, and during this pandemic, I had to put everything I have learned into practice. With all this time passing, I've begun to love certain kinds of food crops.
For those following my gardening content, you will know that my favorite food crop is Capsicum, or more commonly called the Pepper. Particularly, Sweet peppers (Capsicum Annuum) and the Aji Amarillo (Capsicum Baccatum). Peppers have won a safe space in my heart because I love how it tastes in the foods I eat. Luckily for me, many other people who may want to purchase some during their family gatherings or use it for cooking will also like that I'm growing it for them too. It may become a small business for me in the future; Who knows. Learning more about these peppers and other subspecies and varieties will assist me in the future and it may inspire me to conduct some experiments! We'll see!
I'm sure I'm not the only one with a personal favorite food crop so tell me yours in the comment section below!
My personal favorite food to grow is potatoes. We eat a lot of them, so I grow a lot of them. I also like to grow green beans and tomatoes.
That's pretty sweet! Growing potatoes is completely new to me, I've never done it before. Beans I've grown before, but they become quite invasive if you're not constantly holding them back. Tomatoes are very good, but I've got bad luck growing them. Peppers have been the easiest for me (other than microgreens).
Potatoes are really easy to grow. You just take a piece of a potato that has an active eye on it, or just the whole potato, and bury it in the ground 2-3 inches deep. The new plant grows out of the old potato. The eyes are where the new plant grows from.
That's very good to know, my mother has bought some potatoes, I think I may go "borrow" some of hers. LOL.
Leave them sit out in a warm covered place for a few days until the eyes start to grow, then plant them. If ther are eyes growing on different parts of the potato, you can cut them in half so that there's a growing eye on each piece. You get more plants with less potatoes that way.