What Can I Grow Indoors?

Growing indoors is the perfect way to spark your young scientist’s curiosity💚Photo credit: Angelica Robertson

When you grow indoors, your plants must stay within the Grow Lights' confines. Pay special attention to choosing the proper cucumber and tomato varieties indoors!

The cucumbers, lettuce, radishes, and microdwarf tomatoes were all grown indoors!

For additional help, look for Let's Plan! A Student's Guide to Growing the Tower Garden Indoors" on MyScholarShop

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Check out these seeds from MyScholarShop that you can grow indoors!

These 7 seed packs contain seeds suitable for indoor growing. Find them on MyScholarshop (MSS) or at TowerGarden.com

Here’s a list of 34 plants ideal for indoor growing!

Note the plants in green can be planted in the 'baby' spots.

1. Arugula

2. Asian greens (komatsuna, pak choi, tatsoi, and more)

3. 🌱Baby Greens (baby broccoli, baby lemon sorrel, baby argula, etc)

4. Basil

5. Chives

6. Violas

7. Cilantro

8. Cress

9. Hedou Tiny Bok Choy 

10. Cutting celery

11. Dill

12. Kale

13. 🥬 lettuce

14. Gourmet lettuce

15. Mint

16. Mizuna

17. Mustard greens

18. Oregano

19. Parsley

20. Radicchio

21. Melon vines 3ft long or shorter, like Minnesota Midget (you must hand pollinate)

22. Rocket

23. Green 🫘 beans

24. Sage

25. 🌱Lemon Sorrel

26. Swiss chard

27. Thyme

28. 🍆Small eggplants

29. Small peppers, like "Fresh Bites" and hot 🌶️

30. Dwarf cucumbers, like "Mini Me" 🥒

31. 🍅Micro-Dwarf Tomatoes "Orange Hat" "Micro-Tom" "Rosy Finch"

32. Small Asian eggplants

33. 🍓Strawberries

34. Small round radishes

35. Nagasaki turnips

    
    

Rosy Finch Tomatoes are pretty and tasty!

A young Tower Garden with cucumbers, tomatoes, lettuce, and other greens.

Growing tomatoes indoors is fun! Keep them small and manageable. Grow microdwarf types, pretty please! Large tomatoes are not manageable indoors. Microdwarfs are lovely and tasty. Our favorites include Orange Hat & Rosy Finch!

Cucumbers are a very rewarding crop to grow! Home-grown cucumbers have a beautiful flavor and a satisfying crunch that is often missing from expensive store-bought cucumbers.

Growing crispy, crunchy cucumbers indoors is a lot of fun, and I'm betting you'll be obsessed (like I am!) with watching those little babies grow!

Here are some of my best tips for successfully growing these mini cucumbers yourself:

• Choose parthenocarpic (producing only female flowers and thus does not require pollination) snack-sized "mini" types, such as "Mini Me"

• Cucumber plants produce a lot of foliage that can block the grow lights, so add in a grow light that you can clip onto the cage. I like to slide the grow lights behind the foliage to add light from behind the plant. More light = more cucumbers!

  
  

• Prune your cucumber plants so that you are managing the size of the plant. This is very important indoors! Here's a helpful article on the how and why to prune cucumbers.

• Start your seed indoors. This is important so you don't accidentally introduce pests into your system. Here's an article about how to direct seed indoors.

• Plant ONE seed per cube and grow ONE cucumber per indoor Tower Garden. The vines grow long!

Enjoy growing crispy, crunchy cucumbers indoors!

Strawberries are fun to grow indoors! Purchase bare root plants and hand pollinate. Read more about growing strawberries indoors.

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Watch this video with your child to learn how to grow indoors on the Tower Garden!

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