Grow an Indoor Vegetable Garden
If you don’t have the room to grow the garden of your dream outdoors because you have a small lawn, or no lawn at all, you don’t have to give up on having fresh vegetables in your home in the fall. You won’t have many if you choose to grow in an indoor vegetable garden, but you’ll be able to grow more than you might think. You just have to use your imagination and your window light to see what you can do. Not all things can thrive indoors, but you can grow some items either in your home or even hanging from your front porch, if you have one of those as well.
An indoor vegetable garden will have to be pretty simple.
You may want to eliminate a couple of things right off the bat. Among those things would be any plant that spreads out a lot as it grows. Things like pumpkins and squash tend to snake through an outdoor garden, which means they would do the same in your home. These will not grow well. Likewise, if you have pets, check if anything you want to grow may make them sick. Your cats will be very fascinated in sampling anything you plant, so make sure everything is safe for them, just in case they get curious. Dogs can do this also.
When you build your indoor vegetable garden, think about it more as finding room in window spots to have what you want. You may have to have items all over the house. Simply keep in mind that this is something that you’ll have to attend to, and it may mean moving around your house quite a bit to get to everything. Furthermore, remember that there is the possibility that you’re going to be dropping things like dirt, water, and even fertilizer, so choose which areas work and,which don’t. On the plus side, you don’t have to worry about pests as much with indoor plants, so you won’t have to use bug killers on your plants.
Some windows in your home are going to be better for an indoor vegetable garden than others. You want ones that get a lot of light for as long as possible during the day. If you are three feet from another house, any windows on that side of the house are going to become very limited sunlight. Pick out ones that get more and are facing more wide-open spaces. You can even move your plants once the sun shifts overhead, and you have lost the morning light on one side of your house. This can be time consuming, but is often a great solution for vegetable plants that need a lot of sunlight and attention.
You can use window planters, or you can use indoor planters whom you can set on tables at the window. You can grow some things like herbs more easily, but some vegetables will do well in indoor vegetable garden plots as long as you give them the attention that they need. You also have space on your porch, if you have one, as you can find hanging tomato plants and other plants that will do well in hanging planters. They usually get good light, and you don’t have to worry about them as much, at least in that regard.
