The Basics Of Indoor Vegetable Gardening

Searching For The Sun

The small varieties of tomatoes and peppers, can easily adapt to indoor vegetable gardening. They require a warm sunny window or artificial light to grow well indoors. These plants like full sun but you can make up for this to some degree by placing a reflective surface behind your plants. With lots of care and a little luck you can start harvesting tomatoes and peppers in approximately ten weeks from planting.

Herbs are less demanding than vegetables and might be a better choice for indoor vegetable gardening. Many people that love to cook have a potted herb garden on the kitchen window sill. Herbs will provide seasonings for all your favorite dishes including soups, stews and salads. Plant seeds in 6 inch pots or your favorite decorative containers. It will take about 12 weeks before you can harvest your first leaves but growing herbs can be the perfect solution for doing some indoor vegetable gardening in a very small space.

Try Growing Sprouts

If you find that light is too limited, you might want to try your hand at sprouts. Growing sprouts is one form of indoor vegetable gardening that doesn’t require light. You can sprout almost any seeds, including soybeans, alfalfa, lentils and mung beans, Use only seeds intended for sprouting as some seeds are treated with an antifungal agent which is poisonous. You can find these in health food or occasionally grocery stores.

Put your seeds in a wide mouth container such as a canning jar and soak seeds overnight, drain and cover with a double layer of cheesecloth and hold in place with a canning jar ring or a rubber band. Set the container in a warm location, and drain and rinse the seeds two or three times a day. In just a few days sprouts will be popping up and when they are an inch or so long they are ready to use.

A great site to visit if you prefer to learn about indoor gardening through videos and video tutorials is here: Gardening Videos. There are free videos containing tips and useful gardening information on a range of gardening topics.