I'm so happy to have an indoor garden this season, for our outdoor gardening season was cut short this year with a killing frost the end of August and real cool weather in September.
I had been planning to grow indoors for some time thinking I would bring in a few potted plants and start some seeds to grow under the lights.
With the sudden change in the weather I noticed there was a number of smaller plants that weren't growing much out doors so I decided to dig them up and pot them up to come indoors.
Fresh Dug Lettuce and Malabar Spinach Plants Potted Up to Bring Indoors
I started with the small lettuce plants and Malabar spinach figuring they had shallow enough roots that they would probably transplant okay.
Those first plants I dug up were doing so well and the temperatures outside were still not warming up much so I decided to dig out and bring in my celery plants, some parsley plants, and some rhubarb chard plants.
To my amazement they all thrived in the warmth and being under the LED full spectrum grow light. Wahoo!
Lettuce and Celery Plants Now Thriving Under the Lights in the Warmth
Since these plants were doing so well I decided to dig out a few of the smaller kale plants and sure enough once they got into the warmth and under the grow lights they started to thrive too! H-m-m-m! I still have some kale growing outdoors under the row covers perhaps I'll bring in a few more.
Time to Bring in the Green Onions
The last plants I bought in were my pots of green onions. I had started these from the scraps of the green onions - the bottom root part of the green onion which is usually thrown away.
Growing Green Onions From Scraps
Directions - cut off the base with the roots intact and put it into a container of water in direct sunlight. Change the water every few days and it won’t be long before the green part will start to regrow.
At this point I plant them in a pot up into some potting soil. they will give a continuous feed of green onions. You can cut off the green part and they will keep growing back.
I have my seeds to start some fresh plants. I want to maximize what I'm growing under the big LED grow light so when plants get past there prime I can replace them with new seedlings started in my light stand set up with florescent grow lights. that way I can keep a continuous flow of healthy plants growing.
Right now I'm able to pick fresh greens and herbs most every day and I do love my fresh green salads!
See part 1 and 2 of Gardening for Food Security - Indoor Gardening Project at:
Part 1 - @porters/gardening-for-food-security-indoor-gardening-new-project-beginning
Part 2 - @porters/gardening-for-food-security-indoor-gardening-new-project-beginning-part-2
This is my entry for @simplymike SteemIt Community Garden Journal Challenge 6 - October 2018
If you are doing any indoor gardening I'd love to hear about it!
Photos were taken with my Canon Powershot A495
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