10 Fast-Growing Vegetables You Can Harvest in Just a Few Dozen Days

Growing vegetables takes patience and hard work. You need to spend a lot of time in your vegetable garden, and it usually takes several months before you can harvest fresh vegetables.

But if you want a quick harvest, beginners can choose easy-to-grow, fast-growing vegetables and be eating vegetables they grew themselves in just a few short weeks.

1. Spinach

Spinach is not only one of the fastest-growing vegetables, it is also one of the few vegetables that can tolerate partial shade, and it can grow even at temperatures as low as 7-8 degrees.

Spinach is a relatively cold-hardy vegetable. You can harvest it once the leaves are a fairly bright green; leaves that get too old become very bitter.

2. Kale

Like spinach, kale is easy to grow and relatively cold-hardy, and it can be grown on a balcony or in a small yard. It needs plenty of water to grow, and if it goes without water for a long time, its flavor becomes very bitter.

There are many kale varieties to choose from, and some varieties can be harvested for their leaves in just a few weeks.

3. Lettuce

Of course lettuce is among the fast-growing vegetables. You can usually harvest fresh lettuce 30 days after sowing. It really does grow very fast, and it is no exaggeration to say it looks different every day.

It prefers lower temperatures and needs appropriate shading in summer. It can be grown in containers.

4. Water Radish

I like to call white radishes "water radishes." They are also very suitable for beginners. You do not even need to raise seedlings; you can just sow the seeds directly outside (the seeds are fairly large).

For container growing they need a very deep pot, because their roots are very large. There are also many varieties of water radish, though I have never grown the ones with red and purple skin.

5. Zucchini

Zucchini is also one of the fastest-growing vegetables. Its harvest period is generally around 70 days, and it is very easy to care for. It likes a mild, moist environment, plenty of sunlight and loose, fertile soil.

6. Bian Radish (Red Radish)

Red radish is a vegetable very suitable for beginners. Both its roots and leaves can be eaten, and in places with suitable temperatures it can be grown all year round. Its harvest period is generally 2 months.

7. Napa Cabbage

Napa cabbage, also called Chinese cabbage, likes cool weather. Spring and autumn are the most suitable seasons for planting it, and its harvest period is generally 30-45 days.

If you want to eat more tender napa cabbage, you can eat it after it has grown for a month or a few weeks.

8. Scallion

Chives or scallions can generally be harvested after about 21 days of growth. They are best harvested when their stems and leaves reach 15 cm, though some varieties differ slightly.

Of course, when harvesting you do not necessarily have to dig them up; you can cut off the leaves and let them grow again.

9. Beet

Here is another fast-growing vegetable. Both its roots and leaves can be eaten, and some people even eat it raw. This vegetable is also very nutritious, and it can generally be harvested in a little over a month.

10. Mini Carrot

If you want to harvest carrots in a short time, then you must choose small varieties (mini carrots), such as "Three-Inch Ginseng," "Little Maruko" and other varieties.

They are also very easy to grow in containers. The carrots they produce are small and delicate, and the leaves are tender; the leaves can also be used to make dressed salads.