2 weeks Ago By Alice Sjoberg
Two garden experts have shared a list of two vegetables that's perfect for beginners to grow in their gardens that will last you for several years. Amy Chapman has grown popular on both TikTok and Instagram , having a total of almost 500 thousand followers combined on the two platforms, as she shares snippets of her cottage-living live where she grows her own food in her impressive garden. As spring is coming closer, Amy, known online as 'In The Cottage Garden', has been sharing her top tips to beginners who want to get started with their own gardens.
In one video, which she made with fellow gardener Liz Zorab, she shared what she believed was the easiest vegetables to grow. “These are some of the most underrated vegetables,” Amy Chapman said at the beginning of the video. “.
.. and why you should be growing them in your garden,” Liz continued.
“This is perennial kale. It lives for multiple years, meaning you can get years worth of harvest from just one planting,” Amy said. “Perennial kale can be used in exactly the same way as regular kale, but it’s much more resilient to pests and it’s less effort to grow.
It even survives pretty ferocious caterpillar attacks,” Liz continued. “It can easily be grown from cuttings. Just cut off a side shoot, remove most of the leaves, and poke it into a pot of compost.
We just used a molehill for ours, and once it's rooted, it can be planted straight into the garden,” Amy explained. Liz introduced the second vegetable on the list, saying: "These are Welsh onions, they’re a type of bunching onion that will also live for multiple years.” Amy continued to explain that you can pick on the green leaves of the onions over and over and they'll continue to grow back.
The onion itself can be used as replacement for any other type of green onion. "And once you’ve got an established plant, you can lift it and divide it and then replant each section to go on to form a new clump of onions," Liz explained. Amy then added: "These vegetables are easier to grow than their annual counterparts, more resilient, and it’s even said that they’re more nutritious due to their extensive root systems.
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