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8 Edible Plants To Grow Indoor

By Debdatta Mazumder

Are you sure that the vegetables you generally consume retain all health benefits? When farmers grow vegetables, they use lots of fertilizers to enhance the growth. Besides, to prevent the attacks of pests, pesticides are also used. These chemicals store on the skin and flesh of the corps and pass on you when you eat those. Thus, lots of diseases happen to you.

Plants That Can Grow Together

How is it to have a kitchen garden? Yes, you will say that everyone don’t have that much space in their house to maintain a thing like it. Specifically, today, people are living in apartments where it is impossible to acquire some land for growing crops.

But if you’re interested in gardening and feels heavenly when see your tomato plant, full of little red tomatoes. If you’re planning to grow plants, you need to know the guidelines to maintain those.

To grow edible plants indoor, you don’t need to be expert farmer. You just want a space where sunlight comes easily and some time to take care those plants. Now you must be wondering which are the vegetable plants to grow indoors?

Tips To Grow Plants Indoors

Well, if you have large pots, you can go for companion planting like carrots with tomatoes, beans with peas etc. Otherwise, you can grow single vegetables in your home. Let’s have a look which edible plants to grow indoor-

Carrots

Carrots

If you are novice at this plant growing business, start with the easiest one. Carrot is one of the simplest vegetable plants to grow indoor. What do you need to grow delicious and crunchy carrots? A 12-inch pot, bright light and moisture laden soil.

Green Beans

Green Beans

If you are searching edible plants to grow indoor, think of growing green beans. The canned ones are not as fresh as the harvested ones and the later tastes much better than the canned beans. This plant grows very fast so put sticks to provide support and steadiness.

Avocado

Avocado

Why spent good amount on this fruit when you can grow it at your house? Buy a sapling and put in a large pot. Fill the bottom with some sand. Be sure about the well drainage system of the pot. Avocado roots get rotten if drowned with water.

Lemons

Lemons

It is one of the popular vegetable plants to grow indoor. Buy a large pot with holes at the bottom. Check the acid quotient in the soil and place the plant at a place so that it gets sunlight for 8-12 hours.

Potatoes

Potatoes

It is also one of the hassle free edible plants to grow indoor. Potatoes can grow well in pots, baskets, buckets and even in sacks. You just need to leave some space at the top so that you can add compost to augment the growth of the plants.

Peppers

Peppers

The pepper plants can be grown at home very easily. Remember, chilli peppers require enough moisture. So, you can use plastic pots which keep the moisture in the soil. Keep the pots in enough sunlight as seeds need warmth for germination.

Mushrooms

Mushrooms

Mushrooms can be grown any time of the year. Also mushrooms require dark and moist area to grow. So, you can put the pot anywhere at your house. Within a month mushrooms get ready to harvest.

Tomatoes

Tomatoes

Tomatoes are one of the effortless edible plants to grow indoor as it yields very fast. Put the seeds in 6 inch pot and place it at the sunlight on your window sill. Within few weeks you can get ripe red tomatoes to plate as salad or some other recipes.

Story first published: Wednesday, June 3, 2015, 15:57 [IST]