Eight crops for your garden

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The author recommends these eight plants as being easy to grow and some are multi-crop (more than once per year) and some reseed themselves (if you allow them to go to seed and don't harvest all of the crop, a good idea!).

http://prepperswill.com/eight-efficient-food-crops-grow/

These eight do have a good mix of nutrients (vitamins, proteins, carbs) BUT you should check for compatibility with your local climate.1)  Black seeded Simpson Lettuce

2)  Black Beauty zucchini

3)  Midnight Black turtle beans

4)  Extra select garlic

5)  Perpetual Swiss chard

6)  Early girl tomato

7)  Detroit dark red beet

  Celtuce

Read the article for details on each plant and seed sources.  Several of these are available in local (for me) garden shops.

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What’s an efficient vegetable?” you may ask. To put it simple, one that can grow in any variety of circumstances.

I must disagree with his use of "efficiency" . What he seems to be defining is easy to grow and adaptable. While these are good qualities in themselves, efficiency is defined as calories in terms of area required for production, water usage or amino acids, vitamins and minerals produced.   In the dry west, water should be a definite concern. In the more watered east, it may well be cultivation area as in how much land is available, how much can be hand cultivated and fertilized. What nutrition is being supplied along with sufficient calories. You might figure in ease of preservation, potatoes and grain are much more easily stored in bulk than eggplant or cucumbers.

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AND you have to like eggplant and zucchini...

There is a reason that zucchini are often abondoned left in boxes on neighbors porches/

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There is that!