@hiddenblade insisted on also getting some tomatoes, the grossest thing known to mankind.
She knows what she's talking about, tomatoes are awesome to grow. Can just trash them after who cares lol - I'm so happy to see people get into this hobby!
I've done loads of crops over the years and here's my top 5 most exciting ones by rank you didn't ask for:
#1 - Sunflowers!! Holy cripes. If you get a big 10-footer like mine it's incredible just to watch 'em every day, and the wildlife it attracts is mental, especially over in the tropics.
#2 - Cherry Tomatoes. The fact they come in groups of 6-10, the perrennial ones just keep on giving and you'll just get overwhelmed with tomatoes which is cool. They're also constantly being attacked by every kind of pest and disease known to man which is where most the fun of the hobby is and you probably learn more about gardening through them than any other plant, battling against nature and constantly googling against imminent death XD
#3: Potatoes. Super hardy, hard to kill, and you can grow 'em in a pot. It's pretty sweet turning one potato into 12 just by waiting, then digging 'em out by hand.
#4: Long Beans. They're just another one of those super-providers. Every day you check there's another handful ready for picking and freezing, they're like the ultimate boom & bust crop.
#5: Peppers. They're tough to raise, take absolutely forever, so the pay off just feels so much more rewarding. Plus they're the best one on the list by far to actually make use of in the kitchen.
Get ready to enjoy spraying an infinite invasion of white flies =D hmu if google doesn't solve your woes, maybe I can help with my meagre experience
I used to hate tomatoes too until I found out it is so good if eaten with other stuff. I don't really eat tomatoes on its own and that's what they probably imagine we're doing haha. We also planted sunflowers, the tall ones (although I don't think 10ft?) and the small ones like 2 ft or so. I'm so excited to see them get really big as I'm planning to transfer the tall ones in the lawn. Hopefully it will stop the weeds from growing in a certain area but I don't really know hahaha.
Potatoes... do you need to have a deep and big pot for them? We have a small lawn but I don't want to plant anything edible there as that's where the dog does his number 1. XD
I was under dystopian lockdown when I harvested my potatoes - I just had a potato pot! It's like a two-layer pot, fairly big but not huge.
You can also get this kind of stand up sack too which I wanna try next time (because heaven forbid I ever have a garden). Needless to say, results may vary. Potatoes are super power hungry and prone to annoying, airborne diseases blown across from miles away, among everything else.
I had to amputate all the leaves off mine by the end due to that disease but I still got 6 decent potatoes out of it! One for every month of effort lol...