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Grow at home
You do not need a garden. All 14 grow in a pot, and each one has a step-by-step guide, the best season to start, and the problems you should actually expect.
Ocimum basilicum
The fastest way to prove to yourself that growing food works. From seed to first harvest in about six weeks on a sunny windowsill.
Mentha spicata
So vigorous it is hard to kill, and so invasive it should always be kept in its own pot.
Coriandrum sativum
Fast, fragrant leaf for curries and salsa. The trick is to sow little and often and keep it cool, because it bolts the moment it gets stressed.
Petroselinum crispum
A biennial workhorse that crops for the better part of a year from one sowing. Slow to germinate, then very generous.
Allium schoenoprasum
A tidy perennial clump that comes back year after year, gives a mild onion snip whenever you want it, and flowers a pretty edible purple.
Allium fistulosum
Almost impossible to fail with, and they regrow after cutting — one sowing can crop several times.
Lactuca sativa
Loose-leaf varieties let you harvest outer leaves repeatedly instead of taking the whole head, so one tray feeds you for weeks.
Eruca vesicaria
Peppery salad leaf you can cut in three weeks and keep cutting. About as fast and forgiving as edible growing gets.
Raphanus sativus
The fastest root you can grow — sowing to crunchy radish in about four weeks. Ideal for keeping children (and impatient adults) interested.
Solanum lycopersicum
The most rewarding thing you can grow in a pot, and the crop where the difference from shop-bought is most obvious.
Capsicum annuum
Compact, heavy-cropping, and genuinely perennial indoors — a chilli plant can crop for several years.
Dracaena trifasciata
The most forgiving houseplant there is. It tolerates low light, dry air, and being forgotten for weeks.
Chlorophytum comosum
Fast-growing, hard to kill, and it produces baby plantlets you can pot up and give away endlessly.
Epipremnum aureum
The near-unkillable trailing houseplant. Tolerates low light, forgets about water for a fortnight, and roots from a cutting in a glass of water.
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