I grow sunflower, buckwheat and pea shoots in trays by a sunny window (time from seed to crop:10-14 days). Alfalfa and fenugreek sprouts in jars (TFSTC: 7-10 days). You need quite a bit of soil stored in the garage to grow in trays through the winter.

But I also freeze tens of pounds of greens for soup, specially those greens that do not do well as potherb (turnip and daikon greens). That is probably 1/3 my green winter intake, with 1/3 shoots/sprouts and 1/3 collards in hoop houses.

Late last winter just for fun I planted a windowbox-type planter inside with mixed leaf lettuce, Swiss chard (Bright Lights) and lettuce leaf and nufar basil. It all came up and I put it in front of our south-facing patio door. I used on it for the rest of the winter, then the lettuce and basil got "icky" so I tossed them. The chard I went ahead and planted outside and guess what - we are STILL eating off of it!! So i'm going to do the same this year. WOOHOO!!
Edie

Here is a link to the same question from a few days back that already has lots of info.

Dave

Here is a link that might be useful: What can be grown indoors over winter discussion

Glib, where do you get affordable pea seed?

I found them cheap on bulkfoods.com, but I have not tried them yet (the garden is teeming with greens right now). If you can wait 4 days I will let you know if they sprout properly (surely they will). Sunflower seeds I get from the pets store (as bird seed), about $0.45/lb, and shelled buckwheat from my food coop. Both sprout nicely. the same site had excellent prices for fenugreek and alfalfa, I got all three.

Thanks, an update would be appreciated. This thread has made me think of a good use for my 2013 beans.

hey grows im a first time gardener and i want to go all organic, i just bought some organic soil (OMRI) approved and i want to grow tomatoes, kale, peppers, just for starters. i know i can grow tomatoes indoors until the frost season is over however, i want to know how to mix soil and if i need to mix fertilizer with the soil?? the soil i bought is Ancient Forest Humus.My question is do i mix soil with fertilizer and can i grown peppers and kale indoors???

Get one sprouter and you be able to grow plenty of greens like Alfafa etc.

can anyone help out???

can anyone help out???

kale maybe, peppers no. not enough light and too cold.

Pat, the peas sprouted fine (at least 22 out of 23). They are green peas. They also sell yellow peas.

Thanks glib.

I guess I'm about to try my first experiment with peas indoors :( as they are not even a foot tall (they are in a pot) and the weather is going to turn horrendous starting this evening. Oy. Guess I should have decided a month earlier to grow a fall crop!
Edie

Don't know how the duplicate happened... sorry

This post was edited by ediej1209 on Wed, Nov 12, 14 at 11:52

Well, I sowed peas in my garden for spring harvesting which are already germinated and sprouts are about an inch tall.My curiosity is if they will survive winter snow or not.This is my first experiment of planting peas.
Please share if you have any experience about this.

I haven't had very good luck with overwintering peas personally Chaman.

I can plant pre-sprouted seeds in the spring and they outgrow the over wintered.

But peas are hard to grow here anyway. When it gets warm enough for them to grow it gets too hot, too quick.

I threaten to give up every year, but then I try again. If the weather cooperates so that I get plenty I'm so happy!

But that only happens about every 4 or 5 years!

Peas can overwinter in 7z, I know for certain. Austrian winter pea, off course, but I have also fall-sown more typical ones (seed harvested from hybrid sugar snap) and most plants overwintered easily.