April 20 in central Oklahoma.) If you’re an inexperienced gardener, stick with disease-resistant hybrids. Plant transplants well after your last frost date ( approx. You can start seeds indoors under lights, but the easiest way to grow is to buy tomato transplants. Yellow summer squash is easy to grow except for squash bugs. Occasionally, cabbage moth caterpillars also attack my Swiss chard, but they don’t do as much damage. Plant seeds outdoors at the same time as lettuce. They are easy, but being a cole crop, kale can be attacked by cabbage moth larvae. ‘Black Seeded Simpson’ lettuce, Romaine lettuce, and green onions. ‘Black Seeded Simpson’ lettuce, a favorite of mine once grown by my grandmother, is a classic. Lettuce also grows well in containers, so if you have even a tiny balcony, you can still have fresh salads. Leaf, bibb, and romaine lettuce types are the easiest to grow in that order. I find it’s easier to grow in the fall vegetable garden. Sow seeds directly outdoors at the end of February, and you should have success. Here are my best and easiest vegetables to grow in Oklahoma. Now, with those caveats aside here are the best and easiest vegetables to grow. What they don’t eat, they dig up and tear apart.

Oh, and God bless the freakin’ deer, raccoons, rabbits, and squirrels. What are the best and easiest vegetables to grow in Oklahoma? First, growing anything in Oklahoma is a dare. You never know if spring will suddenly end, and hot weather will linger for days, or if a hail storm or a tornado will foul up your spring planting. Part of the potager in with Berried Treasure strawberries, leaf lettuce and chives.

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