Vegetables
This page brings together the vegetable plants you can find on this site. It is a starting point, not a single guide to every vegetable you might want to grow. Each vegetable listed here links out to its own page. On that page, you can check details such as light, water, soil, and care through the seasons. You can also see whether a plant carries any risk for cats or dogs, since that information sits on each plant's own page too. This category does not try to identify a plant from a photo or a description. It only organizes vegetables that already have a page on this site. If you already know which vegetable you want, you can search by its common name or scroll through the list below. If you are not sure yet, the list gives you a quick way to browse before you click through. Each plant's page stays separate from this one, so the details you read there are specific to that plant alone. Nothing on this page applies the same way to every vegetable, since needs can differ a lot from one plant to the next. Use this page to find the plant you want, then open its page for the full picture. This page does not cover planting steps on its own; those live on each plant's page. Bookmark a plant's page once you find it, since this list can grow or change over time. Scroll down to see the vegetables currently listed under this category.
Lists in this category
Most-read plants here
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Queen Anne's Lace
Daucus carota
Full sun and part shade (full sun preferred) · Zones 4a–11b · 2–4 ft (0.61–1.22 m)
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Cayenne Pepper
Capsicum annuum
Direct sun; tolerates bright, indirect light · Full sun · Zones 4a–11b
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Cabbage
Brassica oleracea
Full sun and part shade (full sun preferred) · Zones 6a–9b · 0.8–2 ft (0.25–0.61 m)
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Field Mustard
Brassica rapa
Full sun and part shade (full sun preferred)
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Common Beet
Beta vulgaris
Full sun and part shade (full sun preferred) · Zones 2a–11b · 1–1.5 ft (0.3–0.46 m)
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Spinach
Spinacia oleracea
Full sun and part shade (full sun preferred) · Zones 2a–11b · 0.5–1 ft (0.15–0.3 m)
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How to choose
Open a few vegetable pages before you settle on one, since each page lays out its own care details in full. Compare the pages side by side if more than one vegetable catches your eye. Check the toxicity section on each page if you keep cats or dogs at home, since that section is specific to that one plant. A vegetable's own page is the place to confirm anything this category page does not spell out. If you already know the common name you want, search for it directly instead of browsing the whole list. If nothing here matches what you are picturing, remember that this category only covers vegetables with a page on this site. It does not cover every plant you might find elsewhere. Once you land on the right page, read it in full before you plant anything.
All vegetables, A to Z
Filter all 16 Vegetables plants →
- Cabbage Brassica oleracea
- Cantaloupe Cucumis melo
- Cayenne Pepper Capsicum annuum
- Common Beet Beta vulgaris
- Corn Zea mays
- Cultivated Garlic Allium sativum
- Eggplant Solanum melongena
- Field Pumpkin Cucurbita pepo
- Garden Cucumber Cucumis sativus
- Garden Lettuce Lactuca sativa
- Garden Onion Allium cepa
- Garden Tomato Solanum lycopersicum
- Kidney Bean Phaseolus vulgaris
- Spinach Spinacia oleracea
- Watermelon Citrullus lanatus
- Wild Celery Apium graveolens
Photo credits
- Queen Anne's Lace photo by Niepokój Zbigniew, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
- Cayenne Pepper photo by George Chernilevsky, Public domain via Wikimedia Commons
- Cabbage photo by Rjcastillo, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
- Kidney Bean photo by Badagnani, CC BY 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons
- Cantaloupe photo by Anaxibia, CC BY 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
- Field Pumpkin photo by 1bumer, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
- Field Mustard photo by Wikimedia Commons contributor, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
- Common Beet photo by Stefan.lefnaer, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
- Wild Celery photo by MPF, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
- Cultivated Garlic photo by Ermell, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
- Garden Tomato photo by 阿橋 HQ, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
- Corn photo by Roger Culos, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons
- Garden Onion photo by Basotxerri, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
- Garden Lettuce photo by GT1976, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
- Watermelon photo by Derek Keats from Johannesburg, South Africa, CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
- Eggplant photo by Joydeep, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons
- Spinach photo by 阿橋 HQ, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
- Garden Cucumber photo by Friedrich Haag, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
How this page was made
- Written with AI assistance from the sources listed on this page. AI is never the source of a fact.