Vegetables Gardening - Growing Organic Vegetables

Do you do any thing special to grow plants on your window sills? I never
have been able. I've now moved and do have a couple south windows. Do you
supplement with artificial light? What about fertilizer? I really want to
grow things, especially lettuce, inside.

----- Original Message -----
From: "seedplanter_max" <seedplanter_max@yahoo.com>
To: <MittleiderMethodGardening@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, December 06, 2011 12:56 PM
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:
>
> 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.Â
> 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.
>
> Cherlynn

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