**The vegetable garden plants you should grow are the ones that grow the vegetables you like to eat**

When you start turning your lawn into vegetables start off by planting the vegetable garden plants that you know about and your kids already eat. Don’t start off with new vegetable plants that you

have never eaten before because you probably might not eat them. You want to give yourself the best chance of succeeding with gardening so keep it simple.

If you just want to try out if vegetable gardening is for you, buy a couple of trays of vegetable plant seedlings and plant them in places where they are easy to water.

The best vegetable plants to start with are the leafy greens as these will grow up and hopefully crowd out the grass. For a real easy vegetable garden just plant some pumpkins, squash and watermelon seeds near a tap or faucet and train the runners to grow around your house or fence and this way they won’t grow all over your lawn. But just remember don’t plant too many as they might all come up and start producing vegetables then you will be eating pumpkin and squash all winter.

Also you can put up a trellis along a south wall of the house and plant some cucumbers, beans and eggplant and let them climb the wall. Here you are only limited by how big your house is. After you have pumpkins growing around the house and cucumbers climbing the walls you could start on turning the lawn into vegetables. To start all you need are some vegetable garden plants, sunlight and water and your garden will grow by itself.

Check out our Vegetable Gardening page and see what you think, but now is the time to stop thinking and just throw a few seeds around the house to see what happens.