Indoor Vegetable Gardening

I've decided to start an indoor vegetable garden in our spare bedroom. Since Brian's work as a technical writer contractor requires us to move frequently, we have become short-term renters over the past few years. So, while I've been lusting after homegrown vegetables for several months, I've been reluctant to dig a garden into our rental lot because:

1. Landlords generally frown on month-to-month tenants digging up the yard. 
2. Digging a new garden takes a massive amount of hard manual labor and if we move again in a few months, we'll have to abandon all that hard work.
3. Moving would also require us to leave unripened produce to wither and die. I don't like anything to die needlessly.

Most importantly though, we moved into the house in mid-May, which is too late in the North Carolina planting season to start any of the vegetables I like to grow. Here, the heat and drought always comes rolling in about mid-June. Anything planted too late to establish deep roots burns to a husk long before it produces fruit. So even if I had decided to ask our landlord's permission to dig a garden, it would have been an uphill battle all summer to get a decent return on the effort.

But now, in October, I've finally come up with a solution. I'm going to put some indoor-friendly vegetables into pots and grow them in our sunny extra bedroom. We're both big believers in the health benefits of keeping houseplants, and I figure houseplants that produce edible food are a two-for-one.

Currently, the extra bedroom looks like this:

Its primary function has been to give me a place to haphazardly throw the things that I don't have proper storage for. Clearly, some vegetable producing potted plants would be an improvement and the two windows provide plenty of light. So that's become my current self-sufficiency priority.

I'm going to scout some websites this afternoon and choose the heirloom seeds I want to use. I then need to pick up some larger pots and potting soil while I wait for the seeds to arrive. I'd also better grab a waterproof tarp to protect the hardwood floors in case of a leaky pot. If I have the seeds started before Halloween, we should be eating homegrown salad by the holidays.

Oh, and the apple cider vinegar worked like a champ. I've had no significant sinusitis symptoms for two days. I'm going to drink it for two more days, and then call myself healed. Score one for natural remedies!