| If you are an apartment dweller, look to your patio | | | | peat-lite are usually too light for container vegetable |
| and balcony to provide the perfect place to start | | | | gardening and will not support plant roots effectively. |
| your indoor container vegetable garden. Herbs can be | | | | However, indoor gardening soil is different than |
| grown indoors easily as well. An added benefit to | | | | regular garden soil, so inquire at your local nursery as |
| indoor container vegetable gardening is you can do | | | | to the best soil for your container gardening. |
| this all year round! | | | | Preparing your garden soil for planting is the most |
| You may raise an eyebrow or two at this | | | | physically demanding part of vegetable gardening and |
| suggestion, but it can be done, within limits. Certainly | | | | may also be the most important part. |
| pumpkins, squash, and sweet corn are not going to | | | | Next, you need to decide whether you will be |
| be items grown inside the average home. But, many | | | | starting your vegetables from seed or from started |
| leafy crops, root crops, tomatoes, and other | | | | plants. If you are new to gardening, starting |
| vegetables can be grown indoors during the cold | | | | vegetables from seed may be too huge an |
| months of the year. You don't need a large outdoor | | | | undertaking, instead purchase plants. Successful |
| garden to enjoy growing fresh vegetables. | | | | vegetable gardening involves far more than just |
| Container gardening is great because you can position | | | | popping a few seeds into the ground and waiting for |
| your containers for the best light exposure and best | | | | a tomato to appear. Even if you start with a small |
| growing conditions. Although vegetable production will | | | | existing plant, you will have the joy of tending, |
| be limited by the number and the size of your | | | | nurturing, and stacking your growing vegetables. |
| containers, indoor container gardening can be very | | | | Added to the pleasure of vegetable container |
| rewarding. So, let's get started with a plan for your | | | | gardening will be the satisfaction derived from eating |
| vegetable harvest for this year! | | | | your vegetables fresh. |
| Here are a few vegetables to consider for indoor | | | | Learning is a process, vegetable gardening needs |
| growing: Cherry tomatoes, Hungarian sweet peppers, | | | | time. As in so many other pursuits, it is true in the art |
| 'Gypsy' peppers, Short vined cucumbers and squash, | | | | of vegetable gardening: practice does make perfect. |
| Endive, Radishes, Spinach, Swiss Chard, Leaf Lettuce, | | | | Indoor container vegetable gardening might not be |
| Miniature cabbage, Eggplant, Chives, Green onions, | | | | quite the same as growing the same plants outdoors, |
| Bush beans and most any Herb. | | | | but it can be fun to tend an indoor vegetable garden |
| Planning your garden is one of the most important | | | | when the snows are blowing and the winds are |
| parts of container vegetable gardening. You can have | | | | roaring outdoors! Your family and friends will be |
| hanging baskets, pots, and planters filled with various | | | | delighted and surprised when your serve that salad |
| crops that will perform fairly well if lighting, pollinating, | | | | with the green onions and cherry tomatoes they |
| watering, fertilizing, and temperature requirements | | | | discover that you harvested that day from your |
| are met. Decide what pots you want to use, and | | | | indoor container vegetable garden! |
| then choose your soil carefully. Soilless mixes like | | | | |