Has anyone tried growing herbs indoors?

When I say has anyone tried growing herbs indoor, what I mean is more than a small plant half ignored in a corner. I mean where you had at least a few plants grown with led grow lights with the intention of yielding a moderately steady supply of herb, and IB4U I don't mean pot though you're knowledge may come in handy.

I'm mostly looking at things like Basil (inc Thai) Oregano, Mints, Lemon (herb), cilantro, ect. I haven't much looked into it but I was wondering about self pollinating hot peppers, strawberries, or tomatoes. I think I remember reading 1 or more of those existing. Have you tried?

I was thinking if it was just an herb garden I may be able to set up a simple terraced hanging garden on one wall somewhere, with a couple full spectrum LED's.

I was just hoping for someones feedback that wasn't a died in the woods farming fanatic. The fanatics idea of what is simple is often not so much.



Imagine something much smaller but the same basic idea.

 

Thanks for the pics. I also prefer the sun but the winter months in Canada aren't the best for crop growing.

I've considered stuff like what you've shown before but the big problems are the price per unit and the max height of the light bars. That being said I like the arm on the last couple pics, however it still might not be tall enough for some of the herbs once they really get going.

Hydroponics are great but I don't necessarily need it. A little dirt and a couple quality full spectrum led bulbs should suffice and it would save me a fortune.

As for Strawberries and Tomatoes I think anything that will require me to manually pollinate (other than the shake method) is going to be a no go for me.

 

Grabbed these guys recently and transplanted them yesterday. The green onions were just produce that I threw in water until they firmed up.



I also have a massive basil plant a couple thai basil, a mohito mint, a peppermint, and what is amassing to be a fair size strawberry crop after walmart threw their large strawberry baskets on for 4 bucks yesterday. A half dozen tomatoe plants, a couple bell pepper plants and a jalepeno pepper plant, all of which are well on their way to producing a happy crop.

 

Ya, I'm not much of a seedling guy. It's neet to watch a couple plants but then when I starting thinking about how long I will have to wait it starts to tire me out. That's why growing your own bean sprouts is far more satisfying. Throw the seeds in a jar, show them a little love, and 3-5 days later you're eating them.

I was doing the math and if I bought my tomatoes and peppers from small plants or even seeds it would end up costing me almost as much as buying the larger already beginning to produce plants. I found that out after purchasing a batch of half grown tomatoe plants for $1 each and then realized it was going to cost me another 6 bucks per plant to transplant them. Still looking for a work around on that one but they really need to be transplanted pronto. If I could plant them in the ground it wouldn't be as bad but that would require me to do a good amount of real gardening. Next year I could probably start from smaller plants since now I have the larger containers but I'd still need to throw down on some dirt.

The benefit of late season purchasing is that around this time of year the stores start to get anxious and dump the plants so you can pick the best of the best from the latest maturing crops for a steal and forgo the woes of starting your own crop and go strait to the benefits. Most of my large plants had a half a dozen tomatoes, or peppers on them when I bought them. Now I get to just watch and drool. I still can't believe how fast these plants can grow in a single week.

 

The second picture was taken today which is the fourth day since the first photo. Not only is the bell pepper notably larger but interestingly the larger of the two small peppers above has now become the smaller pepper. Ha! Nature.

 

I've never tried to grow mushrooms but I have unintentionally grown many things in pots. I'm not sure why you need a pressure cooker for mushrooms though.

 

If you can imagine a much smaller version of the pic in my OP, I was thinking since these plants will likely be somewhere out of the way I could probably get away with a couple of these grow lights.



There's a couple varients, I was thinking I could get the one where the base is a clamp. Then I just twist the lights into whatever position I like. Not bad for $37CA shipping in.

 

ahhh, and here I was just eating these things fresh out of horse ****