[GaltAdonis]

Hi garden folks!

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I've got the INDOOR winter salad garden now started.
Going to attempt fresh lettuce and herbs indoors all winter for salads.

The first of the Black Seeded Simpson trays are planted.
I'm planning the next trays to be Baby Spinach
(maybe Bloomsdale Long Standing spinach), and also
Heirloom Ruby Red Leaf lettuce and maybe Buttercrunch.

The primary question I have is -

WHAT VARIETIES of lettuce/spinach and any other vegetables/herbs
may do well indoors by a south-facing window over the wintertime?

I'm in the Northeastern US - central coastal New Jersey.
I will augment the natural light from the window with
a combination of flourescent grow lights and maybe some incandescents.

And as an experiment I will try one broccoli plant per 5 or 6 inch pot -
to see how - and IF - that actually works.

What say y'all?
Any advice? Or am I Looney for even trying this? (Might as well use the Den for SOMETHING, right?)

Something other than starting tomato and pepper seedlings indoors
so that I have biggish healthy plants to put outside in
mid May sometime - which I've been doing for decades.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

You’ll have better results with cool-weather crops indoors over winter. Lettuce, Spinach, Kale, Arugula, etc. Leaf-lettuces are easier to grow as you can use them as ‘cut and come again’ plants. Anything that ‘heads’ such as the Buttercrunch can be problematic.

I do a lot of sprouting and grow microgreens (for cutting) in the winter months.

It’s fun to experiment - so if you hit upon something that works really well indoors in winter, let us know! :)