Note: This article may contain affiliate links as references for the same or similar products used in this project. In this Instructable, I'll present Peter's wish list, provide supplies reference to get ready for this gardening approach, steps for one-round of gardening, my findings of first round indoor salad gardening, and my thoughts on furthering and making this indoor salad gardening my own. So by the end of the book, I know I'm trying it. In the end of his book, he also wrote that his salad farming makes close to $40,000 a year without making changes to his house. When I read the 10 things on his wish list they sound exactly what I'm looking for, I knew I may try it. The search is complete when I stumped upon Peter Burke's Year-Round Indoor Salad Gardening: How to Grow Nutrient-Dense, Soil-Sprouted Greens in Less Than 10 days. Perhaps I should start winter indoor gardening I thought. Unfortunately, living in Wisconsin means I just want to stay inside all day and dream about seeing and eating greens until next April, May, even June.

I thought about vertical gardening or raised bed gardening. I want to grow more vegetables next season I want to grow more variety of vegetables next season. I want to significantly reduce my grocery bill. When the fridge was running low, instead of going to store to buy grocery, I picked zucchini and cucumber from the backyard corner.

I also found our grocery bill was noticeably reduced during the summer. Not only I had a great feeling because I had something to give. I'm sure they were more surprised when they ate them because they were super tender, juicy, sweet, and tasty.

I got a kick out of the receivers' look when they saw how big the zucchini were. I gave the extra to my daughter's teachers, our friends, neighbours, or whoever came to our door. There was no way my family of four could consume them all fresh even though we were having them everyday one way or another. I kept harvesting several of them each every a few days.

The zucchini and cucumber were crazy productive. (I usually plant two or three seeds in one spot).īoy! It must be because of the rich compost made in several years of time. In the early summer of 2015, I finally had a few minutes, I went outside, dumped the bin of compost that was in making since we moved to the house 8 years ago, and stuck a dozen of seeds of zucchini, cucumber, tomato and eggplant each, in the soil of a corner at my backyard.

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