My easiest and most successful are kale and swiss chard. Just last week we finished off the last frozen bag of kale. Usually I freeze 30 bags or so. The best garden we ever had was in a small town where the soil was really sandy. The carrots were like a foot long. My mother, as with all other farmers of that era, was an excellent gardener. But she had an acre or so of land to work with. With 5 kids, they'd did about 4 cubic meters of potatoes. We washed them on old bed springs. I got sick of shelling peas, Dad's favourite veggie.
I was raised on a dairy farm but mom fenced off about an acre for growing fruit and veg. I think for this reasoni have never been impressed with shop bought fresh food.
The last couple of homes we had in England had reasonable gardens but we were too busy to do much with them.
Here in France, although living the rural, small village life the only land we have is a small courtyard. The 6ft by 2ft area that is not paved is reserved for flowers. So veg and fruit is grown in pots.
We have a couple of grape vines, a fig tree and an apple tree in large permanent pots. And the strawberry tree. Other than that we are still feeling our way with growing veg in pots.
We've tried peas and failed, lettuce, reasonable, potatoes were our best annual success and tomatoes, also a failure. Hopefully our new batch of tomatoes will di better
