OK, in this time of #StayHomeSaveLives from #COVID19 it's a good idea to grow food. I have planted greens all over my yard but I am aware that some of you don't have room.

So, a thread of ideas for growing your own if you don't have room.

1) Mushroom kits. Until this year I thought them an expensive gimmick, just something to help people think they are growing food. Aldi have them for $15 currently and all you need to grow mushrooms is water. With mushrooms being over $10 a kilo it's not a gimmick any more.

2) Window planters. I have a small window planter on my studio/office window sill. In it I have strawberry plants. You could also plant herbs.

I don't want to advertise Aldi but they have window-planter kits too.

3) Sprouter. You can sprout seeds with a kitchen sprouter, all you need technically is seeds, a container and water. You can eat the sprouts in salads etc.

4) Vegies in pots. Not many vegies give a decent yield in pots but some do. A good example is perpetual spinach. Rocket is awesome too (maybe better) and will produce leaves for salad in a few weeks.

You can put your pots on a balcony, a foot-path, a driveway or even inside.

5) Find a neighbor with a yard. Ask if you can plant in their yard and offer them a share of vegies. No contact needed, just leave their share on their doorstep like a supermarket delivery.

6) Guerilla gardening. Plant vegies on wasteland, public land, in shire garden beds, anywhere you an get away with it. Sure, someone might steal your veg but that's a public service. If they are desperate enough to steal veg they need the veg. If you catch someone join forces.

Recommended veg for fast harvest in winter, cress, rocket, spinach, chard, radishes, lettuce. Most will produce food in weeks not months.

Recommended longer term winter veg, cavalo nero, sprouting brocoli, brussels sprouts. They are continuous harvest vegies.

Does anybody else have an idea I haven't mentioned?

BTW, if you have rocket, spinach, lettuce or chard growing and you need veg immediately you can pick them at any size, just pick the biggest leaves from the outside of the plant and leave the rest to grow.

You can time-layer greens, when you start harvesting greens scatter more seeds, by the time you have finished the first lot the second lot will be growing.

Oh and back-yard foraging. Platain (the herb), dandelion, sow-thistle and nasturtium are all edible. So are nettle and thistle. You need to cook nettle to neutralize the sting and the best bit of a thistle is the peeled stalk.

Yes, I have eaten all those herbs.

Also, if you have a sweet potato that's sprouting you can stick it in soil or a pot. It will eventually grow more sweet potatoes for you to eat but that's not the best bit. It produces a tonne of leaves which are edible, nutritious and delicious.
(don't eat potato leaves).