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Grow what you love to eat. Radishes may be quick and easy, but if you don’t like them, why waste the space? In my family, we like lettuce, spinach, spring onions, tomatoes, cucumbers, squash, okra and corn. All of these, except for okra and corn, can easily be grown in containers. Before heading to the nursery, make a list of those vegetables you love to eat and grow those first. If you have a hankering to try something new, go for it, too. A few years ago, my daughter, Claire, and I discovered we love kale chips, especially homemade ones. The kale we found in the grocery store was large and tough. We began growing ‘Toscano’ or dinosaur kale, and we now have some in raised beds during the cool seasons. Kale, like lettuce, chard and spinach, is easy to grow in containers, and using seed for these leafy crops works well. You can also buy plants if you want to jumpstart the season. We sow kale in late fall, and it often overwinters in our warm climate with cover. We also do an early spring sowing in February.