Gardening is a great activity, but when it is too cold outside, indoor gardening can make a great alternative. Use this indoor gardens guide to help give you ideas for planing your indoor garden.
Growing your own vegetables and herbs is a great way for you to know exactly where your food comes from. Food that you grow yourself will also be fresher than anything you can buy in the supermarket. Even if you have limited space and not very much light, you can still at least plant your very own indoor herb garden.
Every good indoor gardener knows that site selection is an important aspect of having the best indoor garden. You must select a part of your home or apartment that receives a good amount of light and that is also temperature controlled. If you do not receive enough light in your home, you can purchase energy efficient grow lights at a number of specialty online retailers or from your local hydroponics store. Gardens should ideally be placed in a commonly visible spot, since much of the care and attention we provide comes only after noticing our plants.
Select a soil that does not contain chemical fertilizers and pesticides. Purchase organic fertilizer from your local hydroponics store since many large home improvement stores will not carry these products. In addition to purchasing organic fertilizer, you can use some of the compost waste you generate at home to feed your indoor garden plants. Sprinkle used egg shells around the base of the plants in your indoor garden. As the egg shells degrade into the soil, they provide your plants with vital nutrients.
More people are getting into indoor gardening recently. “We have defiantly seen more people come to the nursery this season,” says Candace Rollins, manager of The Behnke Nurseries Company in Potomac, Maryland. Rollins attributes more people visiting the nursery to a desire to know where one’s food comes from.
Although maintaining a indoor garden is an enjoyable and useful activity, an indoor gardener should have different expectations than if working outside. With less soil and much less light to work with, indoor garden plants to not grow as big and do not yield as much. Despite a smaller yield, indoor gardening is a great activity that will provide you with fresh herbs and vegetables all year long. In addition, you will know that what you are eating was not grown using harmful pesticides and chemical fertilizers.
