Growing Your Own Food With An Indoor Garden

Due to such great choice and the availability of a vast range of foodstuffs, ‘foodies’ or ‘gourmets’, for the snobbish, have expanded all over the land. At one time only people rich enough to eat in the best restaurants and order the best meals were considered gourmets. It was both a class and gender thing. Years ago, men in general, didn’t cook that much and even when they did; they didn’t have much interest in it. Now, everyone is doing it and talking about it! One of the staples of this food explosion is the pepper.

The Humble Pepper

Peppers come in all colours and shapes and sizes. They all have their own properties. Some are sweet or bitter, and then there is strong or mild or hot and even hotter!  For the home gourmet the problem is running out of them. They can also be very expensive to buy, depending on the season. The solution to this problem is to grow your own peppers. What if you don’t have a garden? The indoor garden is your only alternative. At one time people would have laughed at the very thought of cultivating fruit or vegetables inside, but nowadays the indoor garden is a fact.

Indoor Pepper Growing

Use aeroponics to guarantee your own personal supply, without regard to bad weather spoiling your crop. Peppers are one of those vegetables that are considered quite easy to grow; they don’t need a great deal of attention compared with other types of plants. Unfortunately, they do need some attention. Which is fine if you are a keen gardener with the time to lavish on your plants. What if you are just a keen foodie that wants to spend more time on cooking and eating than cultivating? The indoor garden system would be ideal for you.

Make Things Easier

The people who know say that before planting seeds, you need to prepare the ground with compost and fertilizer. Pray for plenty of sunshine and water them a lot in the early stages of growth. Also, be on the lookout for root rot and pests. Don’t worry, with the indoor garden system that aeroponics offer, most of that you can forget about. It’s possible to supply sunlight by using a grow lamp. As soil is not used, so there is no need of compost or fertilizer. Irrigation can be done automatically, using a timer. And peppers are not the only things to flourish with this method.   

4 Vegetables That Can Be Grown In An Indoor Garden

Many people love to grow their own vegetables to save on money, and to help provide healthy food for their family free of bugs and chemicals. Some think they have to wait until late spring or early summer to do this, however, others have discovered that they can grow vegetables all year long right inside their own homes.

Creating an indoor garden can be a great way to start any vegetable growing goals. All that is needed are the right containers for the kind of vegetables that are able to grow indoors, a place inside close to windows to promote enough sunlight on the vegetable containers, and to make sure to keep the soil moist. It may also be necessary to add extra lighting during some of the winter months. There are some vegetables that are easier to grow inside than others, so here is a list of four vegetables that are better to start out with:

Lettuce

When choosing lettuce for an indoor garden, loose leaf lettuce is best. This is because it does not have a core, and can start to be picked just four to six weeks after they are planted. Another great thing about choosing loose leaf lettuce is that after the leaves start to be picked, it will still produce new leaves for several weeks.

Carrots

Carrots are another great vegetable to start growing in an indoor garden. Carrot containers need to be kept in a cool place and the soil will need to stay damp. After the carrot seeds sprout, they will need to be thinned out to make sure that there is enough room for the bulbs to grow under the soil in their containers.

Green Beans

Green beans can also successfully be grown in an indoor garden. Bush green beans are easier to grow indoors than vine green beans, because they will not need to have a trellis for them to grow upwards on. Bush green beans, however, need to be planted in individual pots so that they have enough room to grow.

Radishes

Planting radishes in an indoor garden is a quick way to start seeing real progress. To better grow radishes indoors, make sure to cover the container with plastic wrap after planting the seeds and watering until the seeds start to sprout. This allows the soil to keep more of its moisture after watering, and will help to produce faster results.