You can sow seeds for winter vegetable crops, like salad greens, radishes, carrots, onions, Swiss chard, English peas and kale. Look for transplants of other cool-season vegetables, including Brussels sprouts, broccoli and cauliflower. Herb transplants also appear in garden centers during winter.
To get a jump-start on your garden and grow some fast-growing, cold-tolerant plants you're going to want to try out some radishes, turnips, sugar snap peas, kale and spinach.
Chives. Chives are a great herb to grow on your kitchen counter! They come up very quickly—it'll only take 2-3 days for chives to sprout. Additionally, they are quite happy at room temperature, just place it near a sunny window.
Cucumbers, lettuce, radishes, spinach, turnips, basil, melons, beans, peas, and other seeds that germinate quickly are some of the greatest examples.
Once you have clipped them, put them in a glass of water and let them soak overnight. This softens the seed coating and allows it to germinate quickly. Plant your seeds in a pot or straight in the ground like me, and within 3 days, you will have sprouts!!!
Turnip seedlings emerge after just three to seven days! Turnips are full of nutrients and flavor and are a superb choice for anyone looking to add a fast-growing vegetable to their lifestyle. They make them perfect for novice gardeners and busy lifestyles alike.
The Best Quick Growing Grass Seeds
Perennial Ryegrass, Annual Ryegrass, and Bermudagrass stand out as champions in this category. Perennial Ryegrass, as mentioned earlier, is a fast-growing favorite. Its quick germination and growth rate make it an excellent choice for lawn renovation or overseeding projects.
Radishes. One of the fastest-growing vegetable plants you can grow is radish. Some types are ready to eat in as little as 3 weeks from seeding. They are a cool-season vegetable, meaning they do best in spring or fall, before or after the heat of summer.
If you want to give your seeds the greatest chance at sprouting, try soaking seeds in water. This is the secret to boosting germination rates and getting more plants to grow, even if your timing is a little off in the garden or you forget to water as often as you should.
From winterberry and paperbark maple to witch hazel and pink muhly grass, these winter plants are pretty, yet tough. They shine brightest in cold weather, because they add height, texture and structure to your backyard space. Plus, many of these colorful winter plants have wildlife benefits.
These cold-weather champs are kale, spinach and collards. Other hardy vegetables include broccoli, Brussels sprouts, English peas, kohlrabi and leeks. Hardy root crops are radishes and turnip, which also yields some greens from the tops. Other hardy greens include kale, mustard greens and collards.
In fact, studies have shown that February may be the best month for sowing a cool-season grass, with germination success rates as high as nearly 75% — a significant advantage over December or January rates of around 50%.
Winter sowing is ideal for some annuals, perennials, and wildflowers. Check out a seed catalogue: most will have some sort of notation about a seed's germination requirements.
Radish. Radishes are probably the fastest growing vegetable in your garden, being ready to pick in as little as 30 days from planting the seeds. Their peppery flavor is a hit on the vegetable tray or added to a fresh lettuce salad.
Garden Cress: 14 Days
In as little as two weeks, you can harvest garden cress, a peppery, tangy-flavored herb. Plant in early spring in loose soil and a sunny location. Seeds can be started outdoors between one and two weeks before the average last frost. Plant seeds ½-inch deep and spaced 1 inch apart.
Bermuda grass is the fastest-growing warm season grass, germinating in as little as 10 days. Ryegrass, which grows in cool climates, also germinates that quickly.
Carrots, spinach, radishes, turnips, lettuce, baby kale, and peas are ideal for direct seeding in spring months. These cold-tolerant crops can handle spring's temperature fluctuations between mildly frosty nights and warm, sunny days.
Squash or Pumpkins
Squash seeds are quite sturdy and fairly simple to grow, germinating in 6 to 10 days. Although many types of squash seeds work well, pumpkin seeds are a good choice because they're large and children usually know about them from Halloween.
Some seeds like Allium 'Purple Sensation' and Eryngium giganteum need a long period of cold-moist stratification with alternating temperatures. These are the most difficult seeds to germinate.
Bamboo is the fastest growing plant on earth. Some species of bamboo can grow more than 1 meter per day, which is about 4 cm per hour. No other plant grows faster. Two examples of such fast growing bamboos are Madake (Phyllostachys reticulata) and Moso (Phyllostachys edulis).