Grow indoor garden in winter
The winter has arrived and the greenery of our garden gets dried up. There is always a way to sustain them through artificial inputs. Vegetable plants and fruit plants always need natural outputs as well. So we have to mix and match both and help our small garden to sustain indoor itself.
Lighting:
Provide artificial lighting for your plants as most of the plants need 10 hours of sunlight in a day. Hence it is advisable that you keep the plants near south facing window. HID is the most energy efficient light and also expensive, but it helps the plants to grow. Florescent lights also gives energy to plants but you may need to keep many number of them.
Supplementary water in take :
Water is necessary for plants. So to keep indoor greenery you will need to supplement their water intake. You should water them often, but be careful that you don’t over-water plants as the root will get rotten. Organic fertilizers will add nutrient components in plants. Ensure that you use diluted fertilizer for indoor plants or else you may burn them.
Temperature:
This is a main factor that helps plants to grow indoors. Some vegetable plants like tomatoes require temperature above 70 F during daytime whereas veggies like lettuce are more soft than others so they only need about 60 F. However, make sure that plants are never kept below 40 F temperature.
Pollination:
Without pollination plants cannot produce fruits or flowers. When plants grow outside they have insects, birds, wind, etc. to help in pollination. But indoor plants does not have those options. In this case, you should help plants pollinate. Shake the blooms every few days so that the pollen drops to other blooms where fertilization can take place.
Another way, which is a little complex, is that take a paint brush and swirl the pollen gently out of the male part and then swirl the brush inside the center of the female blossoms. You can try this on tomato and squash plants.
Veggies that can blossom successfully indoor are beans, beets, carrots, chives, cucumbers, green onions, lettuce, peas, peppers, tomatoes, zucchini and several herbs such as basil, bay, chives, oregano, parsley, rosemary, sage, tarragon.
This winter, enjoy growing your food inside your own house!
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