No garden space? Wrong season?

Grow fresh vegetables indoors, year-round. And brighten your life.

The salad vegetables we eat fresh can grow indoors - lettuce, kale and Asian greens, herbs, cucumbers, beans, peppers, and even tomatoes. The lights they crave off-season can brighten your mood, too.

Starting from what these crops need to succeed, Indoor Salad explores techniques to meet those needs - from the humble CFL lightbulb, to container gardening, to hydroponics. Get growing today with do-it-yourself projects for the craftsy. Or buy ready-made systems like the Aerogarden with confidence.

• Hydroponics and potting mix - when to use which
• Organic and inorganic options
• Best grow projects for kids

• 4 types of crop plant needs
• 7 lighting technologies
• 9 do-it-yourself projects
• 11 crops - with proven indoor varieties

Whether you're an indoor gardening novice, or an experienced vegetable gardener, you could be gardening year round, indoors. Harvest fresh lettuce and basil within a month.

Illustrated. Full color pictures of the author's own indoor vegetable grows.