PROGRESS!

Our seedling are making great progress. Once we transplanted them into bigger pots we realized we needed more space which meant buying more lights.

INFO
Lights: ECO LUX, 40Wm T12 (full spectrum)
Soil: Miracle Grow, Potting Mix
Plastic Potting Pots: Sm - LG
Timer: 6 hrs, and natural light from the beginning

Pictures were taken on May 14th, 2011

Tomato Plant 

peppers

spring onions

oregano

rosemary

garlic from a clove in the kitchen

cilantro

spinach

mix salad greens

nice DOF

lavender

This is what we looked like just after the beginning

Our shelves are almost bare, and we've just started seeing the first sprouts of seeds come through to the surface. Our lettuce seems to be doing well despite the fact that I didn't leave them much room. 
Every day they grow and become a bit stronger, but at this point in the project we had no idea if they would even make it. 
Photos taken April 19th, 2011

Lettuces in salad trays

Peppers

Basil in some coffee filter technique. I wouldn't recommend it. Slow growth. 

1 Rack, 2 Grow Lights

Here We Come!!!

Photo Story… WE ARE GROWING, here we come!!! 
Recently I found this article in www.motherearthnews.com all about growing lettuce indoors and gave it a try. This is perfect for our one bedroom, loft style apartment.
Here’s the article below or you can click the link here: http://www.motherearthnews.com/Grow-It/Growing-Lettuce-Indoors-Small-Space-Gardening.aspx#ixzz1I6nl2IaW

Grow a Quick Crop of Lettuce Indoors

1/19/2009 4:13:24 PMBy Barbara PleasantTags: growing lettuce, indoor gardening, small-space gardening, salad greens, lettuce

If you itch to start growing things weeks before it’s time to start most of your seedlings, use the space under lights (or your sunniest south-facing window) to grow quick crops of lettuce.
There is a happy symmetry to the fact that translucent clamshell boxes used to package gourmet salad greens also make ideal containers for growing lettuce indoors. To get the boxes ready for duty, use the tip of a stout knife to make 8 or 9 gashes in the bottom of each one. Then add 2 inches of moist potting soil before planting a pinch (about 25) lettuce seeds, barely covering them with soil. After generously spritzing the surface with water from a pump-spray bottle, pop on the tops and slip the boxes under your grow light, or in any warm, bright spot.
Five days later, when the seeds are up and growing, remove the tops and place them under the boxes, so they become watering trays. The soil usually stays nicely moist if you fill the trays with water every day. By the way, don’t try to remove the labels from the lids. Hot water will warp them, especially if they’re made from cornstarch.
You can let your boxes of lettuce bask in the sun from a south-facing window on bright days, but they will be happy to spend most of their time under the light. Keep the lights on for about 12 hours a day, like from 7 in the morning until 7 at night.
The first cutting is ready in 3 to 4 weeks. By holding the boxes sideways, you can clip the leaves right into a colander while keeping the growing crowns intact. The plants will be ready to cut again in about 2 weeks.
If you want to use the clamshell boxes to start another crop, you can lift out the mat of seedlings and transplant it to a larger container. As days get warmer in the spring, you can start lettuce and other salad greens in clamshell boxes and transplant the mats into a cold frame or plastic-covered tunnel.
Have you tried similar tricks at your house to grow good things to eat indoors in late winter? Please share your stories in the comments section below.
Read more: http://www.motherearthnews.com/Grow-It/Growing-Lettuce-Indoors-Small-Space-Gardening.aspx#ixzz1I6nl2IaW

Originally Posted March 30, 2011 at 2:34pm 

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