Topic: Fast growing crops

[ACE]

I don't like radishes so no need to suggest them. But what grows the quickest? This should save a trip to the shops. I put spinach in this morning. Also turnips for the tops. Broadies are in flower, so they will soon be on the way.

[galina]

Mustard and cress on the windowsill.  Sprouting veg in a sprouter or in a coffee jar, like mung beans.  Pea shoots.

And on the plot   Turnips there is a Tokyo Cross variety that is supposed to be ready in less than 2 months, all the Asian vegetables, lettuce, round carrots. 

[ACE]

I have a silly miniature strawberry planter on the kitchen windowsill. It has had salad leaves in all winter from the supermarket. I have just found another and seeded it. Kale is quick isn't it, pull up the thinnings and use first.

[ancellsfarmer]

Will be blanching some dandelions-its an experiment!

[Obelixx]

Rocket, baby beets and carrots, bok choi?

[Vetivert]

Kohlrabi is pretty fast for a decently sized vegetable, around 60 days. Perpetual 'spinach', spring onions, dwarf peas

[Vinlander]

All the chinese mustards are fast - too many types/names to mention, among them flat leaves, puckered leaves,  feathered leaves, smooth leaves, even rough leaves more like radish but they still taste fresh and mustardy & grow very quick to a usable size for salad or wok. If you plant too many you will get the most delicious mustardy broccoli sprigs as they try to flower.

I use land cress as a tame weed/edible ground cover - totally bulletproof - it's brilliant raw and OK in stir fries if you run out of mustard - I chuck in lettuce leaves to compensate if I can - anything from tiny thinnings to the rough holey/torn leaves round  the salad bit.

Cheers.

[galina]

A mushroom kit is also quite fast and with care can be quite productive at home. 

[cambourne7]

salad crops inc beatroot and spring onions

Peas can be sown for pea shoots

I am starting pak choi off next week in greenhouse that grew quite quickly last time

enjoy