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5 Plants That Make an Indoor Vegetable Garden
All you need is a sunny window to create an indoor vegetable garden. Harvest year-round with these five edible plants that make a perfect indoor patch.
The love of locally sourced fruits and vegetables is a trend that we love. Choosing local is environmentally responsible and yields a higher quality of produce. Take it a step further and grow your own fresh food—no lawn or garden required. There are many fruit-bearing trees and plants that do quite well indoors, on a windowsill or on the ground. Here are six fruits you can grow indoors.
Even though most varieties of lemon tree prefer outdoor areas, the Meyer lemon and the Variegated Pink lemon (whose skin looks like a watermelon and flesh is a lovely shade of pink) are particularly suitable for indoor growing. If patience is not your virtue, choose a three-year-old dwarf plant from a local nursery.
To create a suitable indoor environment for your lemon tree—
All those tips will have no use, though, unless you place the lemon tree in a sun-drenched location that allows up to 12 hours of full sun exposure.
Though not a fruit, ginger root is an ideal edible plant for indoor growth, as it thrives in full or partial shade and prefers a reasonably warm environment.
You will see some shoots popping out a few weeks after planting. Roots can be harvested a few months later, by cutting off rhizomes at the edge of the pot.
There are varieties of watermelon that can grow in very limited space. Those with names such as Sugar Baby, Early Moonbeam, and Golden Midget can be tended indoors.
As with citrus trees, there are several apricot varieties, both native dwarfs and otherwise, that can be easily grown inside a container. Try Shipley’s Blenhein, Goldcot, St. Julien, and Stella varieties for your indoor garden.
Simply remove the pit from an apricot, place it in a bag with germinating mix, and refrigerate for three to four weeks. Remove and lightly crack the seed before planting about one inch into the soil.
Strawberries are quite easy to grow, and because they are especially susceptible to pests and fungi, this fruiting plant thrives indoors. If you’re limited on space, try the Alpine strawberry variety, which is clump forming.
What’s more, since their root system is quite shallow, strawberries can thrive almost anywhere provided you give them the right conditions.
With great patience, avocados can be grown directly from the pit.
It takes patience to get the first fruits from a tree grown from a seed—up to 10 years. If you want faster results, pick a sapling from a nursery, which can fruit in two to three years.
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