| There is no need to stop gardening if temperatures | | | | After you have your containers filled with your soil |
| in your area are to cold to garden outdoors. Indoor | | | | mix and your seeds are planted you will need a good |
| gardening can be done to fulfill your gardening urges. | | | | location that has sufficient lighting. plants require at |
| Indoor gardening is done on a small scale and the | | | | the minimum of six to eight hours of sunlight and the |
| plants need more care than a summer outdoor | | | | plants will have to be placed close to the light |
| garden. Fertilization, lighting, pollination, soil, | | | | source.One problem that tender plants might have is |
| temperature and watering are all factors that needed | | | | that the cold temperatures that could radiate off |
| to be monitored carefully when gardening indoors. | | | | windows when the sun goes down will harm them. If |
| When gardening indoors planning is very important to | | | | this is a problem you could supplement them with |
| your success. If you decide at the end of your | | | | heat growing lamps to compensate the cold |
| growing season that you want to keep gardening | | | | temperatures. |
| indoors you just might have trouble doing it. Seeds in | | | | Pollination is another issue with indoor gardening. |
| most areas are hard to come by in the fall. Buying | | | | There is no wind or insects needed to pollinate the |
| enough seeds for your spring planting and storing a | | | | plants naturally. manually pollinating will have to be |
| few extra for your indoor winter planting is the one | | | | done. All that is needed is a small artists brush to |
| thing to keep in mind. Other thoughts are what you | | | | gently transfer the pollen from one flower to |
| want to plant. | | | | another. |
| When choosing plants that you want to grow indoors | | | | Watering of plants will need to be monitored daily. |
| also takes some planning. In most places space is | | | | Plants being grown indoors in a confined space with |
| going to be the main factor. Keep plants to smaller | | | | the heat on don't get the humidity needed to go long |
| sizes. For tomatoes you might consider cherry | | | | periods of time without watering. Usually you ill need |
| tomatoes, lettuce stay with a leaf lettuce and beans | | | | to water daily or every other day. Watering |
| you can plant bush type beans. | | | | frequently can also deplete the nutrients in the soil. A |
| After you have decided on what crops you would | | | | good balanced organic fertilizer that is slow release |
| like to grow over the winter months indoors and | | | | will replenish the nutrients back into the soil that are |
| have the seeds you need readily on hand you can | | | | needed for the plants to thrive. |
| start preparing to plant. | | | | Vegetables grown indoors usually don't produce the |
| Soil will be your next consideration.You are going to | | | | yields and size of the same vegetables grown |
| want to have a soil mix or soilless mix that has a soil | | | | outdoors.Growing vegetables indoors can be fun to |
| structure that is going to retain the moisture and | | | | do while you are waiting for the first sign of spring to |
| nutrients that the plants are going to need to survive. | | | | return and get back to your outside gardening. |