Indoor Garden

Janet Melrose is the co-author of the Guides for the Prairie Gardener series. She is a garden educator and consultant, and an advocate for Calgary’s Sustainable Local Food System. She is a life-long gardener and holds a Prairie Horticulture Certificate and Home Farm Horticultural Therapy Certificate. She has a passion for Horticultural Therapy and facilitates numerous programs designed to integrate people marginalized by various disabilities into the larger community. She is a regular contributor to The Gardener for Canadian Climates magazine. She lives in Calgary where she runs her education and consulting company, Calgary’s Cottage Gardener.Sheryl Normandeau is the co-author of the Guides for the Prairie Gardener series and author of The Little Prairie Book of Berries. A life-long gardener, she holds a Prairie Horticulture Certificate and a Sustainable Urban Agriculture Certificate and is a freelance writer specializing in gardening writing with hundreds of articles published. She is a regular contributor The Gardener for Canadian Climates, The Prairie Garden Annual, Herb Quarterly, and many more. She lives in Calgary.

“You don’t need to be an expert gardener or invest in a lot of fancy equipment to grow food indoors. The Indoor Garden is packed with easy and effective techniques for growing a wide assortment of edible plants like microgreens, tomatoes, mushrooms, citrus, and spices!” — Niki Jabbour, author of The Year-Round Vegetable Gardener“It’s no secret that the cost of fresh produce is continually rising . . . . How sustainable is our fruit and vegetable supply along with the resources (like water) needed to grow them? Indoor growing may provide a solution to some of these costs along with identifying ways to use resources more efficiently. In easy-to-read prose, the authors discuss how to set up your indoor home garden keeping in mind your project goals and budget. You’ll get help with the initial seeding process and with garden maintenance including information on watering, fertilizing, and diagnosing problems. Last but not least, read about how best to harvest your produce. . . . Sheryl and Janet are gifted, always reliable and expert writers. Like the information they provide our readers, you can be sure that the advice they provide will be helpful and valuable in creating your indoor garden.” —Evelyn Lundeen, Editor of The Prairie Garden“What better solution to food security issues than growing your own food indoors year-round? Janet Melrose and Sheryl Normandeau come to the gardener’s rescue once again with this most recent addition to their Go-To Guide series. When Janet and Sheryl team up, readers receive a mountain of combined expertise and an equal amount of shared passion to help gardeners succeed. From sprouts to microgreens to hydroponics to growing tropical fruit indoors, anyone who has ever entertained the thought of indoor gardening on any scale will find practical advice, troubleshooting, humour and wisdom within these pages.” —Noelle Chorney, Editor for The Gardener

• IntroductionThe Growing EssentialsTake Root: Techniques and MethodsMicrogreens and Sprouts Salad Greens, Root Veggies, and More! Everything Nice: Herbs and Spices Citrus, Figs, and Other Delightful Fruit-Bearing PlantsScraps Beget Plants When Things Go Awry AcknowledgementsNotesSourcesIndexAbout the Authors