Home Garden: Growing Your Own Vegetables

With the cold weather hopefully fully behind us, we can look forward to warmer weather and getting back outdoors. As we welcome the warmer weather many are starting to head to their local garden centres and start to get their supplies to plant their 2021 garden. While some prefer flowers, others prefer vegetable gardens and with many of us still at home, those who started growing last year or those interested in starting this year will be ramping up to try again this year. Now maybe this isn’t high on the list of what people searching for houses for sale in Windsor, Ontario are looking for in the Windsor real estate market, but it may be a nice little value add. Beyond that, it provides a great way to utilize extra yard space and after over a year in a carousel of lockdowns, including a tough winter, a spring garden is a great way to get outside and help unwind and promote better mental health. Plus all your hard work pays off in homegrown veggies for your home and saves on grocery bills. We’ve put together a list of some of the easiest vegetables to grow in Ontario to help make your foray into vegetable gardening.

Lettuce
- These are low-maintenance vegetables that can thrive in even frost temperatures and can be harvested year round. It can also grow in any type of garden making it an excellent entry-level vegetable to grow.
Tomatoes
- Another highly popular vegetable to grow in Ontario, tomatoes thrive in heat, making them perfect for Ontario summers. They’re also a vertical plant, meaning you do not need a lot of space and they are perfect for all garen types.
Cucumbers
- Cucumbers are almost a super veggie in a garden! They are able to grow in both warm and cooler weather, that means a long growing season and a big harvest, late spring to late fall, almost year round yields. They are also fantastic cross pollinators for other vegetables.
Carrots
- Like other root vegetables, they require little water or sunlight, meaning even gardens with minimal sun can grow them. They are amazingly low maintenance and just need a nice deep soil bed.
Peppers
- Another heat loving vegetable to grow in hot Ontario summers. Theta r below maintenance and the longer and hotter the summer the more peppers you’ll yield! They are also another vertical plant and can also live in any sort of garden style. They are also super safe against insect infestation, to the point you do not even have to really worry about them.

Coincidentally, the easiest vegetables to grow also come together to make an amazing garden salad, just add dressing! Tending to a garden is an excellent way to get outside and with these easy to grow vegetables, you too can have your own little fresh produce stand right at home.

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