What's up everyone? Welcome back to the Epic Gardening Podcast. We're here with

Leslie Hallick, the author of Gardening Under Lights, and today we're talking

about indoor edible gardening recommendations.

Some things that if you can't grow outdoors right now,

which is probably a good chunk of people listening,

what can you do indoors that you can actually eat?

Maybe houseplants aren't your

not really your jam. What can we grow indoors? I have my answers but I'm gonna

wait and see what Leslie has to say. So what have you had success with Leslie?

Well okay I try everything. I

you know it's more of a do what I say not what I do situation because I'm a

professional right so I get to break a lot of rules and try things that might not be easy, you know, for the newbies.

So I'm kind of doing different things all the time.

But there's some fundamental crops that I think are good for beginners or good for folks that want to

dabble and have some success because you know it's always nice when we can try something

and have success the first few tries it's encouraging and so you know probably tomato plants are not

a not a place to start for for someone just getting into edibles and doors but

lettuce is leafy greens and some leafy herbs are a good place to start for a lot of people.

And that would be, why do you think?

Well, they're a vegetative plant, they're not grown for, I mean they don't really produce a fruit and you don't eat the flowers, so you're growing it through less of its lifespan, so it requires less overall.

Yeah, it requires less light, both ambient and artificial, because it doesn't have to work as hard.

It doesn't have to use as much energy.

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