9 Vegetables to Grow Indoors

Brought to you by Gourmandia 6. GOURMANDIA www.gourmandia.com Conservatories and windowsills are good sites for growing vegetables. Put heavy containers on the floor or a firm support. Some vegetable plants, including trailing species, are suitable for growing in hanging baskets fitted with integral drip trays. Vegetables to Grow Indoors Dwarf french beans source: www.rd.com/slideshows/9-vegetables-to-grow-indoors Can be sown in pots from late winter onwards for early pods. Dwarf broad beans and dwarf runner beans crop well indoors, too. Tall runner beans grown on Cane wigwams or on string up the side of a sunny conservatory are decorative as well as produc- Tomatoes, peppers and eggplant tive. These easily raised tender Crops are favorites for a sunny windowsill and Can be grown from seed or small plantlets. Radishes especially round or globe varieties that do not root very deeply, grow Potatoes Seed tubers used for outdoor plantings are easily grown in large pots, buckets or even plastic sacks, and produce worthwhile yields of tasty new potatoes. well in boxes, troughs and pans. Dwarf and Tall mangetout peas will do well as houseplants. Round carrot Mushrooms Varieties are also successful in pots and boxes. are an ideal indoor Crop for any time of year. Seeds can be sown from late Pick the pods while they are young, For window boxes or hanging baskets, choose pendent varieties such as Tumbler tomatoes. Train cordon varieties such as Sweet Million tomatoes up canes or string in a conservatory, where they will produce long trusses of tasty, decorative tomatoes for several months. Peppers and aubergines are less prolific. When planting the tubers, leave space at the top of the container for adding more Prepared bags of special compost with mushroom spawn only need watering before being left in a winter until mid-autumn, often tender and juicy. producing usable roots 21 tO 25 a draft-free, dark compost to earth up the plants as they develop. place such as an attic or cupboard. Keep at 50 to 60°F (10 to 15°C) and mushrooms should be Crop- ping a few weeks later.