if you could only grow 3 things...

[sixshooter]

What would they be and why?
1. Tomatoes (better boy for an all purpose disease resistant fruit) because of all the things in the garden, a tomato seems to have the biggest difference in taste from garden to grocery store. Nothing is better than a home grown vine ripened tomato. Nothing is worse than a raunchy mid winter wal mart tomato.

2. Swiss chard - i first planted this last year. Id pick chard because i loved the taste and the plant just kept producing. I ate so much swiss chard all season long, what a wonderful producer.

3. Much nacho hybrid jalapeño - i bought this as a starter a few years ago. My local nursery seems to have stopped carrying them. I havent found a jalapeno plant that produces as well since. I love cooking with jalapeño (chilli, salsa, eggs, jambalaya etc)

[rkunsaw]

Wow!!! I sure hope that never happens.My three things:
1. Tomatoes.
2. Okra
3. Corn.
I picked those because we eat them a lot, okra is hard to find in stores and not very fresh.Corn and tomatoes from stores have no taste at all.

[Marlingardener]

1. Tomatoes, naturally since we all agree on the non-taste of store bought.
2. Lettuce--leaf lettuce, romaine, etc. is terribly expensive and rather limp at the grocery, and it's so nice to have your own salad just outside the door!
3. Green beans. I love that vegetable!
Only three --I'm tempted to sneak in a few others, but I'll abide by the rules.

[jal_ut]

Corn, Beans, Potatoes.

I would really like to make it 4. Add Squash. These are the Big 4 top producers for the home garden. If you really want a lot of food this is what you plant.

This is a tough quiz for a guy who had close to 40 varieties last season.

[Zinniagirl]

This is a really tough question. But this is what I'm thinking at the moment

1. Tomatoes. Can use them fresh or freeze/can.

2. Bell peppers. Can't afford to buy organic and peppers have been listed as some of the most pesticide contaminated vegetables so I don't like to buy non-organic. Love them raw and cooked.

3. Green Beans. My favorite vegetable and buying them, even at a farmers market, is just not the same as picking and eating right in the garden.

Now tomorrow, or maybe even later today, I might pick others that I just can't live without. Thankfully, I can plant many more than 3.

[Bobberman]

Of course tomatoes a midseason 1/2 pound maybe pine apple or brandy wine. Peas that are a sugar snap so you can eat the pod or pea! kohlrabi which I can make cole slaw out of and can be harvested over a long time even in the fall!. I love corn but its everywhere here fress and excellent cheaper that I can plant it!
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Maybe this post should be the three I will not plant and the 50 I will plant!

[GardenGnome]

Wow that's hard
1. Shallot. Cause I love garlic and onions if I can only do 3 this can fill alittle for both. Almost every dinner we have has garlic.
2. Corn. You can do so much with it.....I just need to learn how to grow it..
3. 5 in 1 grafted apple tree....lol is that cheating? I bought one this year. All the apples can pollenate each other let's see if they bloom at the same time.
Default. If 3 can't be added. Pumpkins my wife loves them you can do a lot with them.
And kids have fun with them on halloween.

[Flatlander_MB]

I'd grow:

1. Cucumbers - I am an avid pickle maker and couldn't go with store bought anymore. I also love fresh cuc's during the season.

2. Tomatoes - Taste, as others have already said. I also make my own salsa.

3. Beans - Not sure what variety, though. Mostly because my family can't get enough of them.

[lorax]

1. Bananas / Plantains. Personally, I'd grow the variety Limon (Iholena Lele), which are good for cooking when green, and for eating when ripe.

2. Barley. This way I can make bread, beer, and whiskey - the three staples of life! It's also one of the few grains that will produce really well at my altitude.

3. Papaya or Babaco or some relative in the same family. These are prolific plants, and I love the juice and the fruit. They've also got some heavy-duty medicinal uses.


This is really hard; for example, Pineapple and Papaya were tied for third, and Rice and Quinua are close contenders in the grain category.....

Is there any reason I can only grow 3 things?

[!potatoes!]

'Is there any reason I can only grow 3 things?'

just to make things challenging, i guess. but i can't do it. i refuse to imagine such a world. what would i do if i could only grow three things? keep trying more things, that's what.

[gardenvt]

Tomatoes
Sweet Red Peppers
Eggplant

If I could choose 3 more, it would be kale, lettuce and leeks.

[gardenvt]

Why?

Tomatoes are versatile: eat fresh, freeze, dry or can
Sweet Red Peppers: delicious fresh or dried
Eggplant: it is impossible to find it fresh and firm else where.

the other three because I like fresh lettuce, leeks because they are wonderful in soups and dry very well, and Kale because it is wonderful fresh or dried.

[bcallaha]

This is easy for me....

1) Green Beans
2) Corn
3) Tomatoes

Brad

[ruggr10]

3 is just mean!

1. Tomatoes - But, I don't think I could pick on type.

2. Summer Squash - I say yellow, my wife says Zucchini and she's the boss!

3. Garlic - I grow the hottest spiciest garlic I could find and keep propagating it. Nothing like garlic fresh from your yard.

Those are just if I had to pick 3 for my vegetable garden. Blueberry bushes would bump them down if I had to make that choice.

[tc_31_fillAmenist]

Tomatoes, green beans and...

not sure, peppers, potatoes or carrots? Peppers are expensive in the store, potatoes and carrots are cheap but I eat far more potatoes and carrots. I suppose peppers is the third. Answer subject to change and influenced by available space.