HOME AND GARDEN: DIG IT! Best Edible Plants for Indoor Gardening

column and photos by Michelle Riley

December, months after the garden has been put to rest and months before you will get to dance through it once again, leaves you with a sense of space.

This space can sometimes feel as an unfulfilled craving. The extent of the cravings may range from one extreme to another.

For example, a mild craving may nudge you to look at pictures of plants for moments or possibly hours, while making meticulous notes on who or what this specimen is and where its perfect new home will be in the garden.

You may even lament over a plant that did your garden wrong this past season, insulted your sense of gardening, and made its presence unbearable.

Note-making eases your gardening mind and gives you a center, a foundation in which you can draw upon to create the best garden yet this coming year.

Journal these experiences, they will help your garden grow.

Some may tell you to cure this craving by visiting the local grocery, grabbing the nearest succulent, purchasing it, lovingly naming it Fred and placing it by your reading chair. Depending where you are on the craving spectrum, Fred may work.

Would it not be more exhilarating to grow something from seed?

One of the easiest cures to fill that space between fall and spring is to grow something. With as little as a paper cup and a bit of soil you can grow leafy lettuce quite easily. A plastic bowl widens your horizons...

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