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 Post subject: Low light veggies?
PostPosted: May 19th, '09, 07:39 
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HI All. What are some veggies that grow well indoors or in low light? So far in our indoor system bak choi grew well. Eggplant grew pretty good and radish. what do you guys know of?


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 Post subject: Re: Low light veggies?
PostPosted: May 20th, '09, 06:00 
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Normally the leafy fast growing plants and not so much the slower fruiting but its really hard to tell without knowing how low is low :)


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Produce wise, the only ones I can think of are in the mint family. I have seen them grow on the Northside (Northern Hemisphere), in the shade of a house. If you have a lot of motled, shaded areas, how about growing house plants (spider plants, moss, ferns) or plants that are naturally planted in the shade of the Northside (azelias, rhodenderons, camillia).


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Most of the gardening / veggie books will give an indication of shade tolerance. Those suitable for full shade (many bottom level forrest/jungle plants) should be OK.


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I tied my tomatoes to overhead support then the beans grew up the tomatoes, up the strings, up the lemongrass,up the ginger...lol

and then the yams and passionfruit grew up everything :roll:


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oops, mods can you delete that post? should have been here
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Yea, I thought I was getting a case of déjà vu.


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my system is in low light down the side of the house

i am growing lettuce, bok choi, celery and a few other things with pretty good results

i have wombok in the system too but it is too young to know if it is going to do any good it isnt dead yet either and it has been in the system for 2 weeks so far


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