Indoor growing offers many advantages. The biggest benefits are the most obvious: garden pests can't get at your plants, and you have total control over the weather. Yet unless you're lucky enough to have a solarium or greenhouse attached to your home, providing sufficient light to your plants will likely be an obstacle (shade-tolerant houseplants excepted).
Make your indoor gardening simple by choosing any of these durable, easy-to-grow plants.
Growing plants in water, whether houseplants or an indoor herb garden, is a great activity for the novice gardener (great for kids!), people with limited space or an aversion to messy dirt, and those who are plant watering-challenged. This method for growing plants is not only low maintenance, but disease and pest resistant.
Read the newspaper to your plants iStock/Savushkin It may sound a little ridiculous, but this can benefit them in two ways. First, the carbon dioxide from your breath may energize their gas exchange cycles. Plus, if there's enough natural light in their location for you to read by, you'll know that the plants are getting ...
No garden? No problem. Many flowers and foliage plants thrive indoors year-round, and others can "vacation" outside for the summer and move back in when the temperatures drop. Top Tips for Growing Plants in Your Home: When you go shopping for new plants, read the tags or labels.
Before stepping into a plant shop or garden center, there are a number of considerations that you may want to take into account before choosing the plant that is right for you.
Learn how to start seeds indoors from the gardening experts at Burpee.com. Burpee
For indoor gardening, lighting is paramount. Without adequate light, plants become leggy (i.e., tall, thin and weak)-if they grow at all. I've found that even when grown next to a sunny south-facing window, most plants tend to struggle. For best results, you should supplement natural light with grow lights.
You can grow indoors, any time of year: seeds, herbs, succulents, and houseplants flourish under LED or fluorescent grow lights. Learn from the employee-owners at Gardener's Supply Company in Vermont, who've been helping gardeners have more success since 1983. Gardener's Supply