Green thumb? What’s that? Hahahahaha.
I love gardening, when I was growing up my gramma had four lovely gardens in three locations (granpa was loaded!). Mom tries to maintain a nice garden, but she inevitably forgets or does something the plants don’t like, or they just die because we live in such an arid place.
Me, I’ve learned to identify the plants that’ll make me feel like I know what I’m doing… very few, the answer is very few. I doubt they’d survive if my dear husband didn’t remember to water them.
So, unless you just want to have a cactus or two around, here are my suggestions for satisfyingly fast plants:
Tomatoes. Oh man they grow so fast and the leaves smell amazing.
Bell peppers. They grow fast and produce these little white flowers that then drop the petals and turn into peppers. We only ever had one grow to a full-size pepper, and by full-size I mean thumbnail-size. Still delicious!
Potatoes. A little harder to grow in pots since they’ll want to walk, but possible nonetheless. We didn’t take as much care of them and we thought they’d died and went to till their soil to use for something else when –surprise!– a little potato had grown after all! So you have to be more patient with the potatz.
We’ve also had limited success with basil, watermelon, oranges, and apples, but they’re more picky. Olives are very, very resilient, and I was surprised to see the coffee tree so happy in its little pot and growing so fast. The difference between growing your own and buying one turned out to be an adjustment period– when you change their environment, the plants will usually freak out and shed a ton of leaves, and need a bit of TLC and reassurance to grow back.
Yes I’m the sort of weirdo that loves plants more than animals. Plants don’t poop! Depending on what you think of each merc, they’re either the one handing out the TLC or the one that makes plants wilt with a single glance. Only plant people understand #thestruggle.
