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Potatos, sweet potatos, & yams are generally held as the most efficient for calories per square meter for single-crop plantings. Almost all tubers and root crops tend to be very forgiving and grow easily, although you should find ones adapted to your local climate.
Beans & peas fix their own nitrogen and can grow in poor soils. Very easy to grow, dry, and store, and makes for good cover crops and tillage. Need a good bit of trellising to make them grow vertically if youre limited in space tho.
Tomatos and peppers are garden staples for being easy to grow and high-yield, but are picky brat plants. Good for novice gardeners, because if they need something they'll throw an tantrum, wilt till you fix it, and then perk back up in the hour.
Thank you.
Tomatoes seem to be not so easy to grow in the soil I have. Not sure if it is a lack of manure or anything like that.
Tomatos like acidic, well drained soils. Manure will help, as will coffee grounds & tea leaves, peat moss, pine needles, anyrhing with a good amount of tannins. They want lots of water, but dont want to sit with wet roots either, so woodchips or other heavy mulching in the soil will help.
They also tend to need lots of help with nutrients & fertilizer for fruiting. Eggs & other shells will add a lot of calcium they'll gobble up.
Dont over-do it with mineral/petroleum fertilizer. Itll shoot up at the start and put out lots of foliage, but too high of potassium (K) level will lock out magnesium uptake and hobble the leaves right as its trying to fruit.