Indoor gardening

Mr Ladybug and I can not stand the thought of not having something growing all year long so as soon as our garden outside starts wrapping up for the season the grow light comes out and the seed mats comes on and we start planting inside. We are still new at this so it mainly consists of lettuce. micro greens and herbs. We did add the mushroom log at Christmas and it may be one of the ongoing things we keep. Here are a few pics of whats going on today on the Urban Farm.

The lettuce is going crazy! I have already done two small clippings. Its sort of at the point where you clip and the next day it looks the same. Good thing we love salads.

This is broccoli, a few radish shoots and some sort of clover I will add to the salad. I also have a nice patch cilantro hidden in the back and some new radish shoots that the cat walked through the other day.

The basil is looking awesome. I plan on growing so much basil this year.

This is marjoram. It was planted to same time as the basil. its very very slow growing. Not sure if thats normal or not.

We were not even sure what this was. Mr Ladybug planted a few new herbs in pots and they did nothing in the summer. He labeled them but they rain washed it names off. This was a little sprig that came up in the fall so we brought it indoors, It got bigger so I tasted it and didnt die so we kept it growing. After looking all over the internet I am pretty sure its St Johns Wort. I am very excited about this one.

 Mushroom logs dont come with good instructions and I have yet to find a good resource or videos so we are just learning as we go. I kept telling Mr Ladybug that I thought something was wrong with the mushrooms that they looked nothing like Lionhead mushrooms to which he informed me that I had bought oyster mushrooms. That explains a lot because they do look like oyster mushrooms. Maybe we can get another log and make our own videos that will be helpful to new mushroom growers.

None of this came from my garden but I grabbed a big pork roast the other day for .99/lb. My brother in law and uncle brought me some deer meat from a hunting trip and I ground them together to make meatloaf that cost a whopping $1.50 for the one dinner sized meatloaf. Throw in some mashed potatoes for .50 and a bag of steamed broccoli for $1 and thats feeding three people for $3. I had leftover meatloaf and potaotes so I added some peas and make Mr Ladybug a lunch to take to work that cost around 25 cents. Cant get a value meal for that price. 

Thats about all that going on here. This Friday it will be time to start your cabbage and broccoli seeds indoors. Thats pretty exciting stuff!