In my hydroponics setup I grow a variety of salad greens. I've been slowly adding plants trying to find the right amount to where I can have a fresh salad every day without throwing away a ton of excess. It's a neat conversation piece and I enjoy having the option.
You can grow microgreens, and other green, leafy vegetables with the right conditions: full-spectrum light, deep enough soil, and keeping the soil moist. Lettuce and cabbage are very easy to grow.
I have a Lamb's tail, Anredera cordifolia, growing in a fairly low-light spot in my living room. Much of the plant is edible, the flavour is reminiscent of spinach.
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Ilflish@lemm.ee · 9 pts · 3y
Every outdoor plant can be an indoor plant with enough effort
Cross@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 3y
In my hydroponics setup I grow a variety of salad greens. I've been slowly adding plants trying to find the right amount to where I can have a fresh salad every day without throwing away a ton of excess. It's a neat conversation piece and I enjoy having the option.
scutiger@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 3y
Peppers can be grown indoors, and the leaves are also edible.
dpflug@hachyderm.io · 1 pts · 3y
@scutiger What are the leaves like?
Canadian_anarchist@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 3y
You can grow microgreens, and other green, leafy vegetables with the right conditions: full-spectrum light, deep enough soil, and keeping the soil moist. Lettuce and cabbage are very easy to grow.
FlyingSquid@mander.xyz · 4 pts · 3y
Tomatoes can be grown pretty successfully indoors. Also prickly pear.
Gnugit@aussie.zone · 3 pts · 3y
Hosta is a good one.
GAMER@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y
I never thought of that as an inside plant tbh.
Gnugit@aussie.zone · 5 pts · 3y
Monsteria deliciosa is pretty decent too
Zeppo@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 3y
Wow, I had no idea they had fruit! Looks like a giant pinecone cucumber.
Sal@mander.xyz · 7 pts · 3y
Whaaat, I have a decently-sized monstera at home and I didn't know this either! I'm going to see if I can convince it to fruit !
Zeppo@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 3y
I’ve had some for years and didn’t even know they could flower or fruit, kind of sad :(
Sal@mander.xyz · 4 pts · 3y
From what I have gathered, they need to experience sustained hot and humid tropical-like weather to be convinced to flower... So it can be tricky!
hiajen@feddit.de · 6 pts · 3y
Have a extra read on how and when to eat it ;)
*edit wrong word
Gnugit@aussie.zone · 5 pts · 3y
They can only be eaten as the sections ripen and fall off. They may also need prolonged cooking due to calcium oxalate, like taro.
Mothra@mander.xyz · 1 pts · 3y
What? What parts are you eating? I've eaten the fruit, raw, and nobody ever told me it needed cooking
Gnugit@aussie.zone · 1 pts · 3y
The fruit on mine are high in calcium oxalate, it's particularly to eat raw.
Thebazilly@pathfinder.social · 2 pts · 3y
Getting one to produce fruit indoors would be quite a feat.
Suru@mander.xyz · 3 pts · 3y
I have a Lamb's tail, Anredera cordifolia, growing in a fairly low-light spot in my living room. Much of the plant is edible, the flavour is reminiscent of spinach.