Gardening Photos From Our Garden – January 2024

January started cold, snowy, and very windy.

It’s another month of indoor gardening, where hydroponics and microgreens produce fresh greens, peppers, and tomatoes for our household.

I have also started some hot peppers from seed and started planning for the tomatoes I will grow this year. Of course, I will grow cherry tomatoes in pots, but I will also grow Black Prince, Sungold, and Black Cherry tomatoes alongside San Marzanos and Romas, to name a few.

I ordered a bunch of seeds and stocked up on coconut coir for seed starting this month.

And finally, I know there are a lot of photos of my microgreens this month. But it is for two good reasons

Microgreens are the easiest way to grow food indoors in winter. I love hydroponics, and my systems are up and running. Still, from a cost-benefit and easy-to-get-started perspective, nothing beats microgreens.
Microgreens play a big part in how I grow leafy greens in winter.

So there you have it. Next month will be seed-starting time for real. I have learned not to start my seeds too early, and for me, February is all about hot peppers and planting some cold-hardy greens that I usually plant already in January. I decided to wait one month this year as January has been extremely wet with lots of rainfall.

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Gardening photos January 2024

Gardening photo of the week: 29 January – 4 February 2024

Microgreens growing indoors — Colorful microgreens growing indoors

Harvesting radish microgreens

Microgreen indoor kitchen counter garden — There are many ways to grow vegetables on a kitchen counter

Sunflower seeds starting to sprout — Another batch of sunflower microgreens starting to sprout

Gardening photo of the week: 22 January – 28 January 2024

It is high time to harvest when microgreen start to lean — High time to harvest microgreens when they start to fall over

Germinating sunflower seeds in a plastic bag — I germinate sunflower microgreens in a plastic bag

Sunflower Microgreens after germinating in a dark warm room for about 1 week — Sunflower microgreen shoots after germinating in a dark, warm room for about 1week

Same Sunflower Microgreen shoots after a few days under a grow light — The same Sunflower microgreens after a few days under a full-spectrum grow light

Gardening photo of the week: 15 January – 21 January 2024

Rooted lavender cuttings

Full spectrum grow lights improve yield when gardening indoors

Hydroponic basil — Because you can never have too much basil (here grown hydroponically)

Basil plant flowering — Basil plant flowering? No worries, basil flowers are useful and edible.

Gardening photo of the week: 8 January – 14 January 2024

Cover large seeds with a thin layer of soil when growing microgreens — Cover pea shoot seeds with a thin layer of soil for better yield

Radish shoots grow strong in soil — Microgreen radish shoots grow strong in soil

Hydroponic tomatoes in our kitchen — Hydroponic tomatoes ripening indoors in January

Microgreen radish shoots — Microgreen radish shoots ready for harvest

Gardening photo of the week: 1 January – 7 January 2024

Perfect portion sized cup of pea shoots — Portion-size container with Microgreen pea shoots.

Cleaning my 10 pot iDOO hydroponic system — Cleaning my 10-pot iDOO hydroponic system

Microgreen pea shoot root system — Microgreen pea shoots develop strong roots

Microgreen pea shoot seeds