What can I grow in my indoor garden?

Aside from flowers, vegetables like lettuce greens, kale, carrots, and tomatoes, among others, fruits like avocados and lemons, and herbs.

How do I start an indoor garden?

Place one to two inches of potting soil into a container. Scatter seeds over the soil. Next, cover the seeds with a fine layer of soil. Put the container into a drip tray, and give the seeds a gentle shower. Once the tray is in a sunny spot or placed under grow lights, mist them every couple of days.

What time of year should I start my garden indoors?

Most annual vegetables should be sown about six weeks before the last frost.

What can I plant in my indoor garden in February?

Lettuce varieties, chard, eggplant, cauliflower, brussels sprouts, broccoli, cabbage, watermelon, cantaloupe, and honeydew.

What can I plant in my indoor garden in March?

Tomatoes and peppers are good to plant in March. There is a lot of variabilities depending on the area you live in.

Do you need lighting to start seeds indoors?

Yes - if you don't have a window the provides light for 8 hours, use a grow light. They need to be left on for 16–18 hours a day for the seedlings to become as healthy and robust as they would in sunlight.

What is the best way to start seeds indoors?

Purchase your seeds from a trusted source. Pot with seed-starting mix. Make sure your containers have drainage holes, then plant seeds at the proper depth. After sowing, set the containers in a sunny location. Keep seed-starting mix moist. As soon as seedlings emerge, place the pots in a bright area.

Can I start seeds in potting soil?

It's not recommended. Use a moistened potting mix made for seedlings. Use soilless peat moss, mixing in equal parts vermiculite and perlite to hold water and allow oxygen to flow. Regular potting soil may not be fine enough for seeds to root correctly.

Learn about Indoor Gardens

Indoor gardens are systems for growing food and flowers inside your home. With an indoor garden, you can have fresh vegetables and herbs right in your kitchen at any time of year.

Look for systems that are easy to set up and use, with features like automated watering, lighting, and adjustable shelf heights. You can also create your indoor garden, by building racks near a window, with supplementary energy-efficient lighting and using plant trays.

It makes it simple for you to produce your fresh vegetables and herbs in all seasons, and eat more fresh, healthy food.

Vertical indoor food production is becoming a popular thing. There are dozens of start-up and small companies offering automated systems for producing salad ingredients on-the-spot, just-in-time, right in your kitchen. Everything from simple stacking pots to shelves with lights, to something that literally looks like an in-counter bar fridge but that is actually growing your salad for you. When you taste greens that have been harvested ten seconds ago, you'll like the difference!