Easy Crops to Grow From SeedLettuce. Lettuce can be sown directly in your garden bed, or started indoors for transplanting. … Peas. Snap, snow, and shelling peas are all best sown as early as the soil can be worked in spring. … Radishes. … Turnips. … Beans. … Sunflowers. … Sweet Potatoes. … Winter Squash, including Pumpkins.More items…