Indoor Kitchen Gardening: Turn Your Home Into a Year-Round Vegetable Garden

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As featured in The New York Times, grow amazing, fresh, organic produce in your own home with this critically acclaimed indoor gardening manual.

It takes just a few dollars and a few days for you to start enjoying fresh, healthy produce grown indoors. Imagine serving a home-cooked meal highlighted with beet, arugula, and broccoli microgreens grown right in your kitchen, accompanied by sautéed winecap mushrooms grown in a box of sawdust in your basement. Explore the expansive new world of growing and eating that can be discovered with the help of Indoor Kitchen Gardening.

Author and Bossy Acres CSA co-owner Elizabeth Millard teaches you how to grow microgreens, sprouts, herbs, mushrooms, tomatoes, peppers, and more—all inside your own home, where you won’t have to worry about seasonal changes or weather conditions. In this guide, you will find:

·An introduction to growing edibles indoors, from defining your goals and choosing a space, containers, soil, and grow lights to troubleshooting common problems.

·Guidance for growing crops perfectly suited to an indoor environment and that often have quick seed-to-harvest timeframes, such as microgreens, shoots, herbs, wheatgrass, sprouts, and mushrooms.

·Guidance for growing crops with shallow root systems that grow well indoors—such as radishes, carrots, lettuces, and tomatoes.

·Plenty of cheerleading to encourage your sense of adventure.

Filled with photos and more than two hundred pages of do-it-yourself in-home gardening information and projects, Indoor Kitchen Gardening is your gateway to this exciting new growing method.

“Well-written, clearly illustrated and full of personality.” —Northern Gardener

“This is a great book for both beginners and seasoned gardeners.” —The American Gardener Magazine from The American Horticultural Society

From the Publisher

Indoor Kitchen Gardening: Turn Your Home Into a Year-round Vegetable Garden

Indoor Kitchen Gardening is about creating a sense of play and nourishment. There’s a certain thrill that comes with seeing seeds begin to pop into their first leaves, and if you’re wearing your pajamas at the time, that excitement can feel doubled. Although there are some challenging projects wedged into these pages, much of the book is devoted to easy growing practices, so indoor gardening feels more like a fun journey than a daunting task. It doesn’t matter if you’re crammed into an urban apartment with one fern balanced on the fire escape or wondering how to use a lovely greenhouse space in your new farmhouse, anyone can use these simple tricks and techniques to develop garden abundance. Let the adventure begin!

Light

For many indoor growers, some form of artificial light will come into play (more on that later), but for maximum efficiency and sustainability, utilize natural light as much as possible. As a general rule, south-facing windows are preferred because they allow for abundant light, but depending on where you’re located in the country, this could be a benefit or a drawback. Light streams in, but heat does, too. Placing some plants in direct sunlight during the hottest part of a summer day, especially without proper airflow, can cook them instead of bolstering growth. When selecting a site for growing, look for one that allows for natural light, but can also be shaded in some way. This might be as easy as picking a window that has an awning outside that blocks the sun during the middle of the day, or placing plants on a shelf that gets indirect sunlight.

Bossy E’s Best Indoor Growing Medium

Step One:

Measure out about 7 to 8 cups of indoor potting soil or compost mix, and about 2 cups of vermiculite.

Step Two:

Blend the dry ingredients thoroughly with your hands.

Step Three:

Add water; depending on how dry the soil is, you’ll probably need at least 2 to 3 cups of water, but add it gradually and mix it in until you can squeeze a handful and have a few drops (not a stream) dribble out.

Step Four:

Test the consistency of the growing medium. It should clump together without too much pressure, but fall apart once you let go of it.

ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00LJBN0YW
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Cool Springs Press (June 15, 2014)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ June 15, 2014
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 18.5 MB
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Print length ‏ : ‎ 227 pages