If you’re itching to use your green thumb this winter, you may want to try growing indoor crops.

MSU extension vegetable specialist Ben Phillips tells us although it takes a bit more work and space, there’s a few vegetables you can try to grow.

“Microgreens and baby leaf greens, those are the key terms to look for,” Phillips says. “There’s a lot of species that can be grown in those systems. Lettuces, spinach, beets, sunflowers, beans. Those are pretty good for cutting again and again.”

Phillips says it can take about 5 weeks until you get a good crop to take, but temperature makes much of the difference.

“Don’t go on vacation, that’s all they gotta do,” Phillips says. “It takes water, light, and heat, and every day they need to be looking at them because they don’t have the soil to feed them anymore, and pots are very temperamental. It’s far better to put them in a room that is at a good temperature with an artificial light. Putting them by the window is not very helpful. Vegetables grow far too fast.”

Mushrooms are also a good crop to grow indoors. They take very little time and work to grow.