Indoor Gardening Made Easy: How to Grow Herbs & Vegetables in Your House by Dr John Stone

Author:Dr John Stone [Stone, John]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Crafts; Hobbies & Home, Gardening & Landscape Design, Science & Math, Agricultural Sciences, Horticulture, Biological Sciences, Botany, 90 Minutes (44-64 Pages), Gardening & Horticulture, Professional & Technical, Professional Science
ISBN: 1497473772
Amazon: B00JCURL8I
Published: 2014-03-29T04:00:00+00:00

Small Gardening Set

If you are using soil or potting mix as your planting medium, small gardening sets can be affordable and will make such tasks as transferring potting mix much easier.

A basic gardening set like this has basic tools you need the

get started

Watering Can Or Bucket

All plants need water so, if you are planting in a potting mix, having a watering can or some other way to easily water your plants is a good idea.

Chapter 6

The Right Fertilizers

Regardless of which planting medium you choose, all plants need fertilizer to survive and thrive.

For indoor gardeners, creating a living soil, rich in humus and nutrients, is the key to growing vegetables and herbs. The overall fertility and viability of the soil, rather than the application of fertilizers as quick fixes, is at the very heart of indoor gardening.

But, like all gardeners, indoor gardeners have to start somewhere. Your potting may be deficient in certain nutrients, it may not have the best soil structure, or its pH may be too high or too low. Unless you’ve lucky and can find the perfect potting mix you’re going to have to work to make it ideal for gardening.

Indoor gardens especially need fertilizer as the potting mix is usually void of the nutrients plants require selecting the right fertilizer depends on many these. For example if your garden is in an isolated garage, you can mix some manure into the potting mix or feed the plant using a seaweed solution, however these same methods may not be ideal in a home or apartment where people may find the smell offensive.

For convenience water soluble are best. These products are made of chemicals that can easily dissolve or be mixed in water. Simply pour the correct amount in the watering container first, then allow the water from the faucet to mix it.

The chemical based water-soluble fertilizers come in a wide variety of formulas, and their numbers may seem confusing. The first number will be for the percentage of nitrogen, the second phosphorus and the third potassium. Fertilizer formulations will vary according according what each plant needs.

Most of the fertilizers have been packaged for large commercial operations and come in various formulations. The most popular formulation for most indoor crop growers is the 20-20-20 formula. This one will supply general nutrition of most indoor plants. Water-soluble fertilizers also contain the micro nutrients that plant professionals now understand are essential to proper plant growth. Although these nutrients are present in some potting mixes, they are not in all. Even though the micro nutrients are used by plants in minor quantities compared to the three main nutrients, they are important. They include boron, manganese, zinc, copper, molybdenum, and cobalt. The best way to know the individual plant’s needs is to plant it and observe how well the plant grows.

Since there are so many plant-nutrition products available, it is important to choose products suitable for you and your plants particular requirements, read product labels carefully, and follow the application rates.

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