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What are some small veggies I can grow inside?
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AustinGarden Austin, TX 8B (
kyletaylor2000@live.com) on
Tue, Feb 26, 13 at 13:28
| I'm moving in a few months, but want to do some gardening this year. What are some small, fast growing veggies I can grow inside? I know of the radishes, and that is it. *I figured I'd also warn you about the various recalls too*
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RE: What are some small veggies I can grow inside?
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- Posted by glib 5.5 (My Page) on
Tue, Feb 26, 13 at 13:36
| Sprouts. Buy sprouting jars, and you can grow and harvest in a week. For shoots, use regular seedling trays filled with compost or potting soil. |
RE: What are some small veggies I can grow inside?
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RE: What are some small veggies I can grow inside?
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| Came into this thread to say exactly what the 2 posters above me said... sprouts & lettuce. Most veggies need much more light than you will get from growing indoors, unless you are using serious grow lights. As for sprouts, they are among the most nutritious foods on the planet. The easiest to grow are maybe sunflower sprouts, which are grown in a flat with soil. Other sprouts done in a sprouting jar with just water require only slightly more care.
I think I just convince myself to dust off my sprouting jar again. |
RE: What are some small veggies I can grow inside?
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| And "Lettuce" includes any leafy green stuff that you can harvest young. Arugula, Cilantro, Mizuna, Basil. I harvested a big bowls of tasty greens from under my lights just yesterday. |
RE: What are some small veggies I can grow inside?
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| How can sprouts possibly be any more nutritious than the seeds they sprout from? Wouldn't you get the exact same nutritional benefit from simply eating the sunflower seeds? |
RE: What are some small veggies I can grow inside?
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| My understanding is that the biochemical changes that the seeds undergo when sprouting make the nutrition in the seed into a more readily available form for us. So sort of yes, sort of no. |
RE: What are some small veggies I can grow inside?
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| One tablespoon of spouting seeds can easily yield a pint of photosynthesizing green sprouts. Uncooked mung beans taste like hard pebbles. spouting makes them tasty and more digestable. |
RE: What are some small veggies I can grow inside?
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| I grow bright lights swiss chard indoors. I think some other chards might be pretty big for an indoor pot, I don't know, but bright lights works very well. Plus it's a cut-and-come-again veggie. |
RE: What are some small veggies I can grow inside?
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- Posted by glib 5.5 (My Page) on
Wed, Feb 27, 13 at 12:04
The seed must digest its own energy stores to create new fibers. The mineral content will not change, but the bioavailability changes a lot. Consider that, for example, for iron, we absorb 1% from spinach, but 22% from steak. In the seed, you have, for example, magnesium bound to phytates, becoming available in the chlorophyll of the sprout.
And the simple fact that phytates will go is enough to improve absorption across the board. Vitamins content changes dramatically also. The B group is a bunch of enzymes needed to digest carbohydrates. The sprout has to increase that by a factor of ten compared to the seed, so on germinating, new Vit B production is one of the first things going on inside the seed. |
RE: What are some small veggies I can grow inside?
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| hamiltongardener, what kind of lights are you using for chard? For that matter, what kind of growing medium? Tell me more! |
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