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Indoor vegetable gardening? If you're short on garden space, you

Indoor vegetable gardening? If you're short on garden space, you can still have your home-grown veggies!

There's nothing like the taste of garden grown vegetables. However, if you live in a condo, or in the city, with no gardening space to speak of, you may think you'll just have to buy your produce. Not necessarily. If you've got a spare room, which you use as a sewing room or office space, why not add a little plant life? A garage is another ideal spot for indoor vegetable gardening.

Here we show you how to put that space to work, with your own indoor vegetable gardening plot. It's easy, inexpensive and profitable. After all, produce is quite the expensive item on our shopping lists these days.

All you need are planter boxes with drainage trays, soil, shop light fixtures, growing lights, granular time-release fertilizer formulated for veggies. To complete your indoor vegetable gardening plot, choose seeds, or starts from the nursery.

Begin with a trip to your home improvement center. You can purchase planter boxes at the nursery, but you can save a considerable amount of money building your own planter boxes. This is a simple DIY project. You can find plenty of plans and material lists online at DIY websites. For indoor vegetable gardening, a planter box that's four feet long and two feet wide is recommended, as it's easiest to fit in limited space. In the garage, an eight foot box might be a more practical layout. Make your planter boxes two feet deep, as most veggies need a soil depth of 18-24 inches to thrive. You'll need to buy plastic drainage trays to fit under each box.

Buy enough bags of potting soil and compost, in a 4:1 ratio, to fill your planter boxes. This makes a nice, friable soil, which makes it easy for your plants to establish a good root system. Lay down a three inch layer of gravel or pot shards to allow for good drainage. Lay the soil on top and mix well. Water each planter box well. The soil will settle unevenly, so you'll want to even the soil out with a hand-held, three pronged rake, without compacting the soil. Apply the fertilizer according to the instructions on the box.

You'll need a hooded shop light fixture for each box, which come in four and eight foot lengths and special 'grow lights', fluorescent lights which simulate sunlight. Buy chain of sufficient length, for each fixture, so that you can adjust the position of the lights as your plants grow.

Now, plant your seeds or starts. Plant veggies that grow to a similar height in each of your boxes, so that when you adjust the lighting, your plants all receive adequate light. Position the lights about 6-8 inches above the tops of the plants.

Use hooks with molly bolts to hang the fixtures in a room, or screw-in sturdy hooks to hang from the rafters in the garage.

Hang foil-backed plastic sheeting, attached with tape to the light fixtures, right down to the top of the planter boxes. This helps retain heat, as well as reflecting light to all parts of your plants.

Your indoor vegetable gardening plot also gets rid of a lot of outdoor garden pest and weeding problems.

You're good to go! Just wait for the harvest. Enjoy!
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Saddam Hosen said... on 

If you have any plan to make a garden then check this article.
A Guide to Indoor Growing for Beginners :

https://www.globalgarden.co/knowledge/a-guide-to-indoor-growing-for-beginners

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