Discover the Low-Tech, No-Grow-Lights Approach to Abundant Harvest. On Tuesday, January 19, from 7 – 8:30 in the Parkman Room of Mass Hort’s Education Building, 900 Washington Street in Wellesley, home grower and author Peter Burke will demonstrate how he plants his greens year round, and discuss his method found in his newest book Year-Round Indoor Salad Gardening. Come for a demo, a chance to ask questions and to start your own.

Year-Round Indoor Salad Gardening offers good news: with nothing more than a cupboard and a windowsill, you can grow all the fresh salad greens you need for the winter months (or throughout the entire year) with no lights, no pumps, and no greenhouse. The book will be for sale at this lecture.

Longtime gardener Peter Burke was tired of the growing season ending with the first frost, but due to his busy work schedule and family life, didn’t have the time or interest in high-input grow lights or greenhouses. There had to be a simpler way to grow greens for his family indoors.

Burke found a way- he didn’t even need a south-facing window, and he already had most of the needed supplies just sitting in his pantry. The result: healthy, homegrown salad greens at a fraction of the cost of buying them at the market. The secret: start them in the dark. Growing “Soil Sprouts”—Burke’s own descriptive term for sprouted seeds grown in soil as opposed to in jars—employs a method that encourages a long stem without expansive roots, and provides delicious salad greens in just seven to ten days, way earlier than any other method, with much less work. Mass Hort Members $12 Non-Members $20

Register online at www.masshort.org.