Well, the 100 square feet of tomatoes (about 75% cherry tomatos, which are very easy to grow, blight-resistant, and can be used in sauces, the rest slicing toma

Well, the 100 square feet of tomatoes (about 75% cherry tomatos, which are very easy to grow, blight-resistant, and can be used in sauces, the rest slicing tomatos) that have taken over my backyard from 6 plants I set out this spring, right next to the blackberry bush that I stopped pruning 5 years ago and produced 10 gallons of berries this year -- those have worked out well for me with little time or money. I spent $50 on a truckload of compost to top-kill my lawn 3 years ago, and have spent a maximum of 1 hour a week in the garden in the summer since. I'm in it for the big payouts, not for consistent results; last summer was a bust and this one is a boom. For a kitchen garden, that works for me. I've also had very good experiences with asparagus that just kept coming up every spring with no care beyond being mowed as part of the lawn in summer to keep the weeds down -- but I didn't start those plants. Also. the article is wrong about homegrown carrots tasting like store-bought. The taste is much more concentrated and intense, and many more varieties are available to grow. But they can be a pain to grow.