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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.

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. 

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.

Will be blanching some dandelions-its an experiment!

Rocket, baby beets and carrots, bok choi?

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

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.

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

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