So I've been wrestling a lot lately with the question, do I bother trying veggies at all after these are gone? Or do I continue to scour Cambridge for another grow light and try lettuce, peas and carrots inside? Should I get another bag of soil and try sweet potatoes? (I know I can bring those inside once they're started in a bucket)
I want so badly to make this work, but it's hard not to get frustrated. Thing is, there's nothing I can do about the light we get. I think I just need to give myself a slap in the back of the head, a Gibbs-smack as it were and carry on.
More tomorrow, when I have soil and manure. If nothing else, I'll give you an update on the urban bucket compost situation.
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I know it's not "vegetables" but have you tried salad greens? Lettuce, spinach, kale, collard greens have all worked well for me when I had only an hour of direct sunlight a day. I would also suggest green beans. They have always worked for me. You may not get very many because they won't get a lot of light, but you might get enough for a side at dinner.
I also had the same lack of tomatoes problem, too. They finally flowered in September but were never pollinated. So I found out that Comfrey is a great bee/pollinator-attractor so I planted two plants of these next to and in my tomato row (in my new apt's patio). So last year I finally had tomatoes! A whole bowl or two full!
Since you are living in an apt, could you look for a new one with more direct sunlight? Best of luck to you!
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