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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 16 plants (filtered)

Acacia Cootamundra Wattle

Acacia baileyana var. purpurea

Sydney Golden Wattle

Acacia longifolia

Banana

Musa spp.

Banana Plantain (Cooking Banana)

Musa acuminata × balbisiana

Butterfly Bush

Buddleja davidii

Butterfly Bush

Buddleja davidii

California Lilac Blue Blossom

Ceanothus thyrsiflorus

California Wild Lilac

Ceanothus

Red-twig Dogwood

Cornus sericea

Elderberry

Sambucus nigra

Kochia

Kochia scoparia

Papaya Solo

Carica papaya 'Solo'

Photinia

Photinia × fraseri

Purple Heart

Tradescantia pallida

Red-twig Dogwood

Cornus sericea

Sitka Alder

Alnus viridis subsp. sinuata

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