[PetMom]

I always love the idea of gardens or container gardens. But with the heat in tx I gave up the veggie patch a while back and have better luck with some herbs that are pretty good: chives (I always have these year round in a little part of the garden - I will try one in a pot too) they are like weeds and self sow and I use them in place of green onions. Rosemary and sage and thyme are always back there. (this is sounding like a first line of a song! - but these are the best perrenial herbs to have year after year).
Parsley is an annual and finicky of when I can get it into the ground, if it wasn't I would have that first line of the song completed.

I take all of these (the new growth parts of the very tips of the stems for the freshest baby leaves) and make a chopped up homemade type of pesto of all these. You can just smell the potent fresh chlorophyll sp. in this and is good on sandwiches and pasta and my boca meats.

BUT: for indoor stuff year round regardless of water, temp. whatever the most efficient way to get one of the most potent health veggie is to mail order broccoli sprouts and use the old fashioned jar method.

I cannot stand taste of radish sprouts - too bitter, but these broccolli ones are very good. And I always have a batch going.

Now the next step is micro greens - where I 'plant' these broccoli seeds to get little greens on a tray in my kitchen. I am excited to try this as you can also do sunflower seeds and other greens to have very fresh greens. No indoor lights are supposedly not needed for this.

Remember - the lettuces in supermarkets have most often been trucked and sitting around and have lost a lot of nutrition.

Broccoli sprouts and my herbs for now are my source of homegrown stuff and I have yet to have a failed crop with this method this year!

Just google 'micro greens' if you want more info on this way of growing indoors greens.

I did try a lettuce packet of baby gourmet lettuce seeds in a big container and they just sort of sprouted and wilted.