I am looking at dabbling with some indoor vegetable gardening and have been poking around to get a feel for the ins and outs, but find that there are a lot of basic things that I can't seem to get the answers to. Well just to start off, With the pollination of some budding veggies, will an oscillating fan in the room be sufficient to transfer pollen or do you have to always use brushes and so on for consistent results? I could possibly start a miniature bee farm in the room for some cross pollination I guess, LOL.

what seem to be a good light output/wattage for something like a tub of cherry tomatoes? Also, I read that MH lights are good to take green veggies all the way through and HPS for budding plants, but with the budding plants should they use a MH at all or is a HPS sufficient?

I am looking for any lists that state an approximate wattage need for certain veggies. all I can seem to find is greens need less while budding veggies need more and so on, but I would like to know for instance, will a 600w be sufficient for a 5x6 area, or do they suck up as much light as MJ? do veggies need less light than MJ? I want to get an idea of what it would take to meet some basic monthly veg treats for the family, not every meal, but something hear and there throughout the winter months.

Can anyone recommend some good articles on indoor gardening. LW I have been over to the Cutting Edge forums and will continue to poke around there. Hope that everything doesn't sound too confusing.

Any input will be appreciated.

Hear is a list that I found that gives an idea of a few things that can be grown indoors that I didn't find in this thread so far and I thought since it was interesting to me it might be to some other people as well, Adieu Some varieties suitable for indoor planting include:

Vegetable Varieties

Beets Little Ball
Beans, Snap Any "bush" variety
Cabbage Cabbage Morden Dwarf, Earlianna
Carrots Lady Finger, Short `n' Sweet
Cucumbers Bush Whopper, Bush Champion, Potluck, Spacemaster
Lettuce All leaf varieties
Onions Green Bunching (scallions)
Peas Mighty Midget, Little Marvel, Pea Novella
Peppers Gypsy Hybrid, Parks Pot Pepper Hybrid
Radishes All varieties
Spinach All varieties
Squash, Summer Gourmet Globe (zucchini), Gold Rush
Hybrid (yellow)
Squash, Winter Early Butternut Hybrid, Burpee Butter
Boy Hybrid, Butterbush.
Tomatoes Patio Prize, Patio F., Tiny Tim, Toy Boy VF Hybrid, Small Fry, Minibel, Little King, Tiny Tim and any determinate variety.