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3 Top Tips for Growing Vegetables Indoors Across the Colder Months
Growing vegetables indoors across the winter months requires no greater effort than outdoor vegetable growing when it’s warmer. Follow these tips to get the best and most delicious results from your indoor crops.
Soil
As with all gardening the key ingredient for successful results is the quality of the soil. Indoor soil should be lightweight and drain well. Indoor gardeners often use soil mixes including silica, sand and forest mulch or of equal parts of sharp coarse sand, native soil and compost.
Making the best use of the space you have indoors often sees gardeners growing vegetables in hanging containers. In cases like this, use a light mix of equal parts of perlite, black peat moss and vermiculite. You can mix this soil yourself or buy it pre-mixed.
Containers
Use either plastic or ceramic containers for growing vegetables indoors. Plastic pots are light and easier to move but ceramic pots don’t heat up as much as plastic and are often the choice of indoor gardeners. Whatever container you use, needs to be well drained so make sure that a number of holes are drilled or cut into the bottom of any containers you use. Pack the soil lightly to assist with drainage and the development of root systems and allow a couple of inches at the top for adequate watering.
Growing Schedule
Growing vegetables indoors involves the same schedule as for outdoor vegetable gardening. Start from seed or seedlings and thin after sprouting. Warm conditions inside without adverse weather mean that some seeds will grow into very large plants.
Squash, broccoli and cherry tomatoes are all popular indoor vegetables. Cherry tomatoes have a long season and continue to grow after being picked. Herbs like rosemary, mint and oregano are all do well in indoor gardens in the cooler months. They add a delightful fragrance and an attractive look.
Almost no weeds, no need to bend as you tend vegetables grown on racks at waist level and no blazing sun beating down are great benefits of growing vegetables indoors but take extra care to water vegetable plants indoors adequately. Indoor watering is generally done more often and by hand so make sure that your vegetable plants in containers are consistently moist.
With indoor vegetable gardens you can enjoy meals with delicious vegetables year round.
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