What Are the Best Indoor Garden Food Plants?

For many individuals, growing indoor garden food plants at home is becoming more and more appealing. It not only offers a perfect way to add interest and color to your rooms but also saves you a trip to the nearest grocery store while providing much-needed healthy food.

Expand your thoughts if you live in an apartment and think you cannot grow fruits and vegetables. With Gardyn’s indoor garden systems, you can grow plants easily. That being said, here are the best and most common indoor garden food plants.

Leafy Salad Greens

You can grow a wide range of leafy salad greens indoors, ranging from loose-leaf lettuce, kale, arugula, sorrel, and chard to mustard greens and spinach. With these leafy salad greens, you can wait until they are mature or harvest them in the baby leaf stage.

Either way, it’s recommended to grow leafy salad greens as cut-and-come-again plants, meaning you only harvest a few mature leaves from every plant and allow new leaves to grow. You can grow leafy salad plants closely together, but you’ll need to pick them early.

Scallions

Also known as bunching or green onions, scallions are one of the best perennial indoor food plants. That means you can keep them going across the year for continuous harvests. As they grow, you can snip their leafy green parts or harvest the whole plant with roots and bulb intact once the leaves are pencil thickness.

If you leave your green onions to grow all year long, they continue to multiply, creating clumps you can pull apart and transplant to create fresh plants.

Carrots

Similar to most vegetables, carrots grow excellently indoors since they don’t need much light as their fruiting counterparts to produce healthy food. With container-raised carrots, shorter, fatter types that don’t require a lot of depth are recommended.

Round carrots such as Tonda di Parigi are excellent for pots, but any variety can do well as long as you've got a deep enough container or an excellent hydroponic system. You can harvest carrots at an early stage or wait until maturity.

Microgreens

Don’t allow their size to fool you; microgreens come with 40 times more nutrients and vitamins than fully-grown crops. You'll grow and take care the same way you would for leafy salad greens.

However, you’ll need to harvest them when they are approximately two to three weeks old. If you want the much-needed nutritious crunch, try adding microgreens to sandwiches.

Tomatoes

Tomatoes love warm weather, but that doesn’t mean that they are hopeless when it comes to indoors. They require plenty of light, between 14 and 20 hours per day.

Similar to peppers, they are self-pollinating, but you can shake them to allow the pollen to fall from one flower to another. Smaller types tend to perform excellently in containers, and they also grow excellently in hydroponic systems.

Consider Gardyn’s Indoor Garden Systems

Gardyn provides you with the opportunity to enjoy fresh produce annually with zero pesticides and more nutrients. It allows you to grow a superfood at home which is non-GMO, pesticide-free, and locally grown.

With Gardyn hydroponic indoor systems, you can pick from more than 60 types of food plants and be sure to enjoy superior taste and nutrition. Its AI technology ensures healthy habits are made easier, with huge harvests and no hard work.