Indoor gardening anyone?

[LadySapphira]

So, I was wondering if anyone knows much about indoor gardening. I would love love love to try, but I don't know where to start really. For now I'm going to try to sprout but I'd really like to be able to grow herbs and tomatos, but I'm moving and won't have an outdoor garden anyways.

Any help is appreciated!

[Papa2X]

It's not hard at all as long as your plants have access to the sun's rays. I have a sun room with 3 sides of glass, and stuff grows just fine.... Just make sure to have the correct size container for your plants. I just moved a basil plant from a too small pot, to the right sized pot. It was nearly dead... Now, 2 days later it looks like it is in near perfect health! :)

[Juicing Juli]

Are you doing this with the purpose of just starting your plants indoors before planting outdoors? And, where do you live? Unless you do have a sun room or are in a mild climate, it might be difficult. I live in Chicago and start my seeds indoors in March for May planting outdoors....however I have not been that successful at keep plants alive during winter months, in general.

So, I was wondering if anyone knows much about indoor gardening. I would love love love to try, but I don't know where to start really. For now I'm going to try to sprout but I'd really like to be able to grow herbs and tomatos, but I'm moving and won't have an outdoor garden anyways.

Any help is appreciated!

[LadySapphira]

The where I live is part of the problem. I'm back and forth right now between Rochester, not very much sun here, but will be back a bit further southern NY soon. There's a bit more sun there, it's close to Albany (mid-NY state).

I don't have an outdoor garden, so I'm thinking of trying to garden completely indoors.

[Traceyraw]

I tried but my cats destroy everything. You can do hydroponics but it shoots your electric bill way up then they think your growing drugs. LOL. Wouldn't they be suprised with a raid of sprouts.

[dmb2002man]

Look into a hydroponic system. I run a 3 gallon 4 pot hydroponic system with 400 watt led light set on a timer. Its got a 20gph pump and two large air bubbles. My hydroponic barely added any electric $$$ on my bill and i run the light 8 hours a day and pump 24 hours 7 days a week. Been running my kit since october of last year.

http://grow-green.org/index.php?p=1_...oponics-System

[SunshineMN]

I'd love to start a garden with you, but I'm months away from starting it here. We need to refinish our livingroom early this summer before we have the room to grow. But we're definitely going to do it!

What kinds of things were you thinking of growing? I know you said herbs and tomatoes, grape tomatoes? I really want a chocolate mint and a pineapple mint plant. I'm still looking for a source for those. I'm going to grow a large container of cilantro maybe some basil or chives. And I have to grow a container of catnip! I wonder how hard it would be to grow a cucumber plant indoors. Definitely growing spinach, it's got the shortest grow time of almost any full sized green. I'm also going to look into getting an LED grow light to help save on electricity.

I love looking at Johnny's Seeds and figuring out what might work for growing indoors and in decent time frames to make it worthwhile to grow. :)