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I've had luck growing cherry tomatoes, shishito peppers, fairy-tale eggplant, and a variety of herbs with our Aerogarden and I've also grown lettuce and Mitsuba( a Japanese parsley that I can't find locally) from seed using an led grow light and some empty laundry soap containers I re-purposed for Kratky method hydroponics (https://www.kratkygro.com). Definitely doable.

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Very cool! I was considering something like basil or peppers to get started. Does your geographic location get a lot of natural sunlight? I'm wondering if I need supplemental lighting since Seattle doesn't always get a ton of natural sunlight.

In San Francisco so probably similar. We only have one southern-facing window that gets any significant light through the day but it's in the kitchen so I haven't tried to grow much of anything near besides green onions and cat grass. They both do well there. We do have an outside garden area and have grown artichokes, peas, basil and other herbs like tarragon as well as having a couple lemon trees that do well so I think it just depends on having a spot where you can get full sun for the things that need it though grow lights do give you more flexibility and control overall.

> artichokes, peas, basil and other herbs like tarragon as well as having a couple lemon trees

That gives me hope :) I think I'm going to try out basil and go from there.

Herbs grow great in windows. The other 2 require a lot of space and I would not recommend. If you want to do cheap hydro build a lettuce raft

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