Beginner Gardening: indoor plants (veggie or herbs prefered, but any will do), 0 by dividedsky

dividedsky wrote:
I think lettuce/salad greens would be a great idea, especially since they don't like the extreme heat of midsummer. make sure that anything you plant has good container soil and drainage.

herbs are commonly grown indoors, and you could ask the herb forum about specifics. I'm trying them under grow lights and having some difficulties, but I'm going to try some different things. With your sunny window, though, you should be in great shape.

some vegetables are easier grown from transplants than seed. currently, you should be able to get transplants for cold weather crops such as broccoli, cabbage, etc. maybe you'll have more luck up the road from me in chicago, but for some reason, no greenhouses in this city have fall vegetable transplants for sale. hoosiers typically do corn and tomatoes during the summer, i guess - no fall stuff. green beans are super easy to grow from seed. how cute would it be to have green beans growing in your window! or maybe some snow peas for your salad, if you can hook up some string or something for them to climb.

you'd probably want to avoid stuff that needs pollinated - like squash and cucumbers. squash plants generally get too giant for an area like that anyway.

you can do potatoes in containers, but with the amount of compost you need to put in it, bugs might be an issue.

don't forget to grow some catgrass and catnip for your kitty and leave a sunny spot for napping. :o) as far as keeping him out of the other plants, cats will pretty much do what they want to do. maybe you could set up some kind of see-through fabric barrier to keep him out? fabric is used for pest control in outdoor gardening, so i'm sure you could use it in this situation as well.

stick around and let us know what your results are. we're always happy to see and hear about other people's gardening adventures. happy gardening!

the attached picture was taken of my grow-light herb garden about a week after I planted it from overgrown, two-for-one transplants. sadly, only a few of them are still hanging in there, but I'll get it figured out!