not me, I have done it in the past in my cold basement (60F) with 400 watts of HPS lighting, but the cool temps made for slow growth of everything including lettuce. Not worth the energy cost for me.

I'm over wintering a couple of pepper plants and started a couple of "Tiny Tim" tomatoes, but we moved at the beginning of the month and all my plants(including houseplants)were crammed together in boxes for a week or more and I don't have anywhere to (re)set up my grow light. At best I'll be able to keep the peppers and tomatoes alive through the winter. If we hadn't moved I'd probably have a few ripe toms by now(sigh).

Is it too late to buy bulbs to force indoors? It looks like online catalogs only ship when it is time to plant out. So box stores probably don't have them any more either?

Will start seeds at the end of January ... daylily, begonia and downy sage. After that there is usually something to get going every week.

Happyday, it's not too late for indoor bulbs. Most require cooling, but some don't (paperwhites and amaryllis are the ones I can think of). Most garden centers have a cooler where you buy pre-chilled bulbs.

I found a box of paperwhites on Christmas Clearance at Home Depot for about $2 and they're coming up beautifully. I also bought a amaryllis and it's coming along, but much slower.

I am trying some things in a homemade earthbox. I have beans going pretty well under my desk with a small 17w grow light. I have a hard time keeping the soil much above 60 as we turn it down to 57 at nights. I had to germinate the seeds outside of box. I'm using leaf compost as a growing medium. The area above the wicking basket may be waterlogged as the beans in that area are not doing much.

I will be doing some basil and cilantro and eventually try to start as much as I can. Our basement is unheated, too, and we'll see how that goes as the beans are going down there soon.

I did Tiny Tims last year and they worked out great. I started around the end of January in the basement under lights and then moved them into a sunny window in March. They got a bit leggy in the window since they weren't getting full sun. But I did harvest a couple of quarts of tomatoes off of them by summer.

This year I started Tiny Tim, Red Robin, Yellow Canary, and Micro Tom on January 1st. I also started some basil and parsley, some lettuce and spinach, and some dwarf cucumbers that are supposed to be okay for indoor gardens. The spinach is unhappy and the cucumbers are growing very slowly, since the basement is pretty cool for them. Everything else is doing well. The tomatoes are an inch or two high and have 3-4 leaves besides the seed leaves. The only problem is that I have 16 plants and will be hard-pressed to find window space for them all, along with everything else.

Mike

I'm trying some conifer cuttings that I took this week and come Feb. I'll be starting my usual annuals-petunias, impatiens, etc.

tj

I don't think this exactly qualifies as "indoor gardening," however....a few weeks ago, I had a seedling come up in what I thought was an empty pot of soil (inside, buried amid my houseplants). As it grew I realized it was some type of a lily. Today, I have 3 buds and 2 gorgeous stargazer lilies blooming!

Wow, lucky you! That's a nice surprise, I usually just get weeds.

I have my roses inside, As always fighting spider mites. Pretty soon ill be starting my pepper seeds to get a jump start. Currently going through seed catalogs to find something new to try.

Here is a link that might be useful: Wisconsin Gardens