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I love my little indoor garden. In my isolated life, my plants are my only tactile contact with other living things; they're good for my spirits and mental health.
However, I'm not producing food in meaningful quantities. It's a joy-giving hobby, nothing more.
If anyone has successful set up indoor gardens to produce significant amounts of food, I would love to hear about what you're doing. My stress would be lower with a bit more food independence.
@ShaulaEvans I wonder how much the really large ones, like person height ones, produce?
If you can find a copy, 'Gardening for the Zombie Apocalypse' talks about small gardens. One section is called 'Square Metre Stir Fry' and outlines, well, how to grow what you need for a stir-fry in a square metre of soil that might be pots.
The whole book is great. It's a solid gardening book, which unlike many, is also fun to read.
@ShaulaEvans I enjoy mycological gardening. Easy to do inside, and you can grow so many varieties. There’s lots of videos on how to set up an indoor tub, and I get my spores from Premium Spores. Also, you can get supplies from Midwest Grow kits. They even have a mushroom hotline with super helpful mycologists!
@ShaulaEvans Have you tried sprouting in a glass jar? For example, mung bean seeds grow into a pea tasting sprout in three days. No lighting cost, no soil cost, you are eating a home grown sprout any time of year. #sprouts.
Yes! Simplest with good results
@colhill @ShaulaEvans. We are happy to sprout mung bean, fenugreek seeds, small black lentils, dried chickpeas …
@Pollinators @colhill @ShaulaEvans where do you get your seeds from?
@CuriousMagpie @Pollinators @colhill @ShaulaEvans
Just piping in that fedco seeds from Maine have historically been first rate for me
@CuriousMagpie @colhill @ShaulaEvans. Any grocery store that has lentils and chickpeas. Many of them are from the international grocery store which has more variety. Some are labelled organic.
@Pollinators @colhill @ShaulaEvans do you mean just use the dried beans?
@Pollinators @ShaulaEvans Echo this! I grow sprouting mung beans, alfalfa, cress and radish leaf cheaply and quickly. Just add water. These supplement my diet with fresh home grown produce and are especially welcome in late winter.
@Broadfork @ShaulaEvans Broadfork, have you sprouted chickpeas to make raw hummus? Mung beans and black beluga lentils are our favorites for simplicity then radish, fenugreek, alfalfa, and onion. #sprouting.
@Pollinators Yes, I have. I like the chickpea shoots in a salad too. I haven’t sprouted beluga lentils so they are one to look out for. @ShaulaEvans
Jar lids with holes cut in them and stainless gauze to fit are widely available and easily made.
Rinse well with water a couple of times a day and leave upside down on a bit of an angle in a saucer or somesuch.
@ShaulaEvans For more reach on this topic, reach out to #gardening and @gardening 
@richrollgardener
Yes, i also following this hashtag, it is really nice. But be aware, that there are some accounts, who are hijacking the hashtag with complete non-gardening things and sometimes trash. But if you block these hijacking accounts, you can get a nice list of people who share their planting experience. :-)
CrinstamCamp@ShaulaEvans Look for info on sprouting in bushel baskets.
@ShaulaEvans I have to make the obligatory @tinker hydroponic lettuce mention.
They put together a "set it and forget it" lettuce bin using the Kratky method and detailed everything - from assembly to "harvest point", in a thread here: https://infosec.exchange/@tinker/112164392670338644
(Tinker if you see this, I still have to try again using coconut coir!)
@enqfila @ShaulaEvans @tinker Definitely check out @tinker 's stuff. I took what I learned from him and built a two-shelf setup that mostly grows greens, and the occasional herbs in tubs and water. It's not enough greens for two salad-lovers, but it gives us a good bit!
@enqfila @ShaulaEvans - Let me know if you need any help. I've got lettuce and leafy greens and herbs down. I'm currently building out some simple snap pea and similar builds. I have plans for fruit bearing, tomatoes, and peppers, etc., but have not bought the the float valves yet.
....I should do that...