Indoor Gardening Update

Life on the Balcony is starting a Container Gardening Blog Carnival so I thought I’d give it a try I’m about due for a gardening update anyway. My containers are an indoor winter garden. I’m growing a few plants from grocery items like ginger root and green onions. I also bought some seeds specifically for this project. These miniature white cucumber have shorter vines and smaller fruit so they seemed perfect for indoor container gardening. And as you can see right now they are flowering like crazy.

I have 2 aerogardens set up with a variety of herbs. In pots I’m also growing cantaloupe (pictured below), carrots, cascading tomatoes, fresca strawberries, dwarf lemon, and dwarf orange. I have seeds for dwarf zucchini but sadly I ran out of room to plant them. I have a new kitten who loves to nibble and dig, so right now the plants have limited space under grow lights in a spare closet where she can’t hurt them. For next winter I plan to add shelves and shop lights to the closet to give myself about 6 times as much growing space.

I’m excited about adding things like kale, lettuce, radishes, and bush beans to my winter garden that’ll be more productive.

It’s really quite amazing the variety of things you can grow indoors in the winter, even in less than ideal conditions like mine.