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In today’s post, we will discuss on some useful basics – an introduction to indoor gardening, like what are the types of indoor gardening, what are the benefits of growing plants indoors, plant grow lights, air purifying indoor plants and many more topics will be covered. Starting today, we will try to build a new category titled ‘Indoor Gardening’.
Let’s start discussing Indoor Farming or Indoor Gardening in a simple Q and A format to keep this episode interesting.
What is Indoor Gardening or Indoor Plantation?
It simply means growing plants indoors. This might be at a residential home, an office building, or any other enclosed area.
What are the Types of Indoor Gardening?
Indoor gardening can be:
- Container gardening: The most common and simplest type.
- Hydroponic gardening: Growing plants in water using various techniques.
- Environment agriculture.
- Vertical farming.
- And more. We will discuss these later in various posts of this series.
What are the Basic Components of Indoor Gardening?
The three basic components or requirements are:
- Water or moisture.
- Growing medium: Like potting mix for container gardening.
- Light source: This can be natural light or plant grow lights like LED grow lights.
- Plant support: As they grow. We have discussed in another article on the components of indoor garden.
What are the Benefits of Indoor Gardening?
- Grow anything anytime: Yes, you can grow anything at any time of the year using indoor gardening. This is really important for those countries and zones which receive very few hours of sunlight. Owing to recent technological advancements, especially the usage of LED grow lights, indoor gardening has become pretty convenient, and you can grow any type of flower, food, and ornamental plant, regardless of the weather and the time of the year.
- Air purifying plants: As we all know, plants take in carbon dioxide and produce oxygen, while the human body does the opposite. Having plants in and around your house will drastically improve the quality of air you breathe. Many air purifier plants filter the air around the plants and absorb toxic gases such as benzene and formaldehyde. You can check a detailed video on NASA recommended air purifying plant list from HERE.
- Grow fresh herbs and vegetables organically for your kitchen: This, I feel, is the most important benefit. I understand this may not be as easy practically as it sounds. Though not indoors, I have always recommended organic vegetable gardening in your home or terrace in containers.
In our next post, we will discuss the principles of indoor gardening and things you need to set up a basic indoor garden.
l discuss on the principles of indoor gardening and things you need to set up a basic indoor garden.
Happy Gardening!
Watch a detailed video discussion the introduction to indoor gardening.
