How to Grow Your Own Indoor Kitchen Garden
Indoor Kitchen Gardening is a beautifully-written guide to growing a bounty of organic vegetables in your own kitchen. Find simple friendly instructions to grow your own food indoors, for just a few pounds, and quick results.
Learn how to create pet-friendly gardens and wildlife-friendly gardens (use fruit protection bags over netting).
You’ll find information on choosing a space, finding suitable containers and soil, and using grow lights (not near windows to prevent bird strike) to overcome potential challenges.
Crops to grow include:
- Microgreens
- Lettuce
- Radishes
- Carrots
- Kale & Chard
- Spinach
- Peppers
- Potatoes
- Tomatoes
Author Elizabeth Millard and her partner run a 100-member community-supported-agriculture farm in Minnesota, USA, where they provide seasonal produce to members and area restaurants, to build a strong sustainable local food systems. She also leads workshops on growing vegetables and herbs.
Kitchen Gardening for Beginners shows how to easily regrow vegetable discards and scraps, to turn them into edible plants to harvest, even if you have no gardening experience.
Stop tossing your carrot tops, leafless herb sprigs, beet greens and lettuce or celery stumps in the bin. Instead, cut back on food waste and cultivate your own homegrown veggies, with easy advice from an expert.
You can grow these plants indoors, using the instructions and photos – showing what the root section, seed, leaf, stem or other plant part should look like, when you replant it. And what it should look like, when ready for harvest. Many of the featured vegetables can be regrown in water or soil.
The book features large and small edible (some quick to grow, others take a little longer). A few of the many plants featured include:
- Celery
- Carrots
- Ginger
- Green Onions
- Herbs
- Potatoes
- Tomatoes
The author has a Bachelor and Master of Science in Horticulture and has managed botanical gardens in the USA.
How to Grow Food & Flowers (in bags!)
Grow Bag Gardening shows how to grow vegetables, fruits and herbs with no heavy lifting or digging, just use eco-friendly fabric planter bags that grow easily, with minimal space and care (then just fold them up when not in use).
Ideal for rooftops, balconies and patios, these frost-proof bags are easily moved to maximise sunlight. This no-weed and no-mess method of garden is a game-changer with no root circling.
