How to Grow Arugula (Rocket) Indoors
Arugula germinates faster than lettuce, tolerates dimmer windows, and gets hotter with age. The sowing method, harvest timing and varieties that work in a tray.
Lettuce, spinach and kale grown indoors for cut-and-come-again harvests all year.
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Arugula germinates faster than lettuce, tolerates dimmer windows, and gets hotter with age. The sowing method, harvest timing and varieties that work in a tray.
Kale needs a deeper pot and more light than lettuce or spinach, but indoors it will not bolt and keeps producing for months instead of weeks.
True spinach is pickier than lettuce indoors: it needs cool temperatures to germinate and bolts fast under heat and long light. Here is how to grow it, plus heat-tolerant substitutes.
One shallow tray, four sowings and a pair of scissors will keep a salad habit going all winter. Here is the sowing schedule and the varieties that work indoors.