Fruiting vegetables and most annuals require warm temperatures. For example, tomatoes will not set fruit unless nighttime temperatures are between 60 and 70 degrees Fahrenheit, with ideal daytime temperatures at about 80. Root crops such as radishes, dwarf carrots, and bunching onions also do well in container gardens. Beets and turnips are as valuable for their edible greens as their roots. There are some disadvantages to growing vegetables indoors that counter their benefits.
Vegetables take up a lot of space for the number of fruits they provide.
Indoors, the vegetables must be artificially pollinated for fruit development. Pollination can be accomplished by taking the powdery pollen from the bead like anthers and placing it upon the stick, the stalk-like pistil. Good fruiting vegetables for indoors include squash, cherry tomatoes, bush cucumbers, and snap beans. 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.