Vegetables Gardening - Growing Organic Vegetables

Hum.. I have energy efficient windows and everything grows just fine.  Plenty of light just no cold air.  But with temps in single digits and below that's a  good thing!  

I've also grown in my very dark basement.  I made a 4' X 4' bed out of 2x6's and plywood underneath.  I lined it with plastic then put it on top of 2 sturdy saw horses and added my grown mix.  I placed regular shop lights over it and just watered as needed. 
All my cold crops grew great.  DH has finished the basement so that was the end of my basement garden but got plenty of window sills so I'm happy!

Cherlynn

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From: seedplanter_max <seedplanter_max@yahoo.com>
To: MittleiderMethodGardening@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, December 6, 2011 11:56 AM
Subject: [MittleiderMethodGardening] Re: planting for zone 5ers


 
I could grow on my window sills until my husband replaced the windows with 'energy efficient' windows. These windows seem to block out just the rays that the plants need to grow correctly. I'm not a fan of 'energy efficient' because it cuts off another source of growing plants.

--- In MittleiderMethodGardening@yahoogroups.com, Cherlynn Bell <brchbell@...> wrote:
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> I'm in zone 4B so a little colder.  We get way to much snow to bother trying to grow outside but I do grow green onions, baby carrots, several kinds of lettuces in my window sills all winter.  I don't pick the whole lettuce, just a few leaves off each one so they keep growing and replace what I use.  It's not a lot but we have all the green onions we need and a fresh salad once a week for the 7 of us here. We are considering a green house with a biomass rocket stove but it will be a year or two for that. 
> The biomass would be a grow bed so we should be able to even grown tomatoes if we do it.   I learned to grow on the window sills when we lived in a high rise apartment in Japan many years ago.  I've done it ever since.
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> Sent: Saturday, December 3, 2011 7:41 PM
> Subject: [MittleiderMethodGardening] Re: planting for zone 5ers
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> I have grown a zone 5 winter garden in Utah for the past two years. As
> far as anything you can plant at this time the only thing I can think of
> that would even have a chance of sprouting and growing is maca - and I
> think that is slim at best. Other wise you can place seed for carrots,
> bok choy, broccoli, cabbage, chards, parsnips, kohlrabi, mizuna, mibuna,
> cress, arugula, mustard greens, endives, chicories, dear tongue and
> other lettuces, claytonia or miners lettuce, skirrit and about 40 other
> cold tolerant winter veggies. Fava beans can be planted with the early
> peas. Most of the list above will probably not make a showing any
> sooner than mid to late February for the earliest ones and March for
> most of the others. These can be harvest-able as early as 45 days for
> the early greens and May for root veggies and such. I have had good
> success also this year with dill, thyme, cilantro, marjoram, oregano and
> rosemary until two days ago when the winds stripped the plastic off my
> hoop house and mercilessly beat the green right out of my garden. Most
> are still living, so the experiment now is what kind of recovery can be
> generated in the coldest period of winter....we'll see...
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