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Fast-Growing Vegetables

Quick-maturing vegetables you can harvest in weeks, not months. Great for impatient gardeners and succession planting.

Type Vegetable Herb Flower Fruit Vine Shrub Tree Succulent Grass

Speed Quick (< 45d) Medium (45–70d) Long (70d+)

Zone 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11

Showing 12 plants (filtered)

Blue Ash

Fraxinus quadrangulata

Bamboo

Bambusoideae (subfamily)

Butterfly Bush

Buddleja davidii

Common Reed

Phragmites australis

Elderberry

Sambucus nigra

English Ivy

Hedera helix

Kiwi Abbott

Actinidia deliciosa 'Abbott'

Red Alder

Alnus rubra

Red Lentil

Lens culinaris subsp. culinaris

Sitka Spruce

Picea sitchensis

Slippery Elm

Ulmus rubra

Slash Pine

Pinus elliottii

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