Contrary to what many gardeners believe, it is very possible to create and grow a vegetable garden indoors. In fact, it’s even quite easy to make your own little garden inside your home. But as you can imagine, you have to choose your Vegetables To Grow carefully because not all of them are suitable for a mini indoor vegetable garden. Here is the process you need to follow to make a vegetable garden without a garden entirely indoors.

 

Find A Good Location To Plant Your Indoor Vegetable Garden

The first step is to choose the best location in your apartment or house to install this type of vegetable garden. Be careful to calculate the area devoted to your culture, so that you do not end up with a vegetable garden that is too large for the space you intended to give it.

 

Depending on the available space in your home, consider rooms like the kitchen or living room that can easily accommodate multiple planters or even an indoor vegetable garden. Depending on your production ambitions, you can also why not plan to dedicate an entire room to your indoor vegetable garden.

 

Beyond the necessary space for your indoor culture, other criteria are necessary. Here is a list:

 

• Choose a room that is easily ventilated: Regular ventilation is indeed important to keep plants healthy and disease free.
• Choose a location that is brighter than sunny: near a window so that the vegetables benefit from plenty of light, but without direct sunlight during the hottest hours of the day.
• Avoid all North-facing rooms: Otherwise, you will have to use special lamps to reproduce the intensity of the outside light.
• Choose a place near a water point to make watering easier.

Which Containers to Choose for an Indoor Vegetable Garden?

Pots, planters, tubs, vegetable garden, etc. There is a wide variety of equipment to make your indoor cultivation a success.

 

First things first, simply fit the pots to the plants you want to grow. So start by choosing between terracotta pots, planters and tubs based on the size, depth and needs of the plants you want to grow.

 

Private bathroom, choose containers whose bottom is pierced with one or more holes, this is in order to drain the growing media as much as possible because excess water and lack of light are the two main problems you will face with an indoor vegetable garden.

 

Finally, don’t forget to recover excess water from watering, place saucers under pots and planters.

 

How To Make An Indoor Vegetable Garden?

To put the odds in your favor and ensure good harvests, you need to follow some basic rules and principles. Nothing too complicated or too tedious, even for a novice gardener, but the following points are essential to the proper functioning of your indoor vegetable garden.

 

The Basic Rules And Principles For A Successful Indoor Vegetable Garden

To have a healthy and productive indoor vegetable garden, it is necessary to:

 

• Plant in the same pot or containing only plants with similar water and nutrient needs: avoid, for example, placing thyme and rosemary together with mint in a planter. The first two aromatic plants need little water, while mint appreciates much more regular watering.
• Use a vegetable journal. The latter will tell you exactly when to sow your seeds, when to plant the vegetables you bought in pots and when to harvest them.
• Pay attention to the toxicity of some ornamental plants that could come into contact with your crops.

Which Plants to Choose for an Indoor Vegetable Garden?

Of course, due to lack of space, light or sufficient volume of soil, not all vegetables can grow properly indoors and give you good harvests.

 

So what vegetables are grown indoors? Overall, focus your efforts on vegetables that are easy to achieve, such as berries, mini vegetables, and herbs. These plants are perfect for your indoor vegetable garden.

 

Small fruits such as strawberries can be grown indoors, provided they are kept in a cool room (16°C to 22°C). You can grow them in suspension, or planter and even in large pots.

 

Aromatic herbs such as basil, chives, coriander, oregano and even mint or even thyme are perfectly adapted to growing indoors and will easily find their place in a planter or in a small container near your kitchen window for example .

 

Also, so-called “decorative” vegetables such as cherry tomatoes, baby cucumbers, dwarf squash or chili peppers and baby peppers are easy to grow indoors and save space. You can install them in a raised vegetable bed located near the bay window or the French window in the living room.

 

real so-called “fast-growing” vegetables like radishes or lettuce are also perfect for growing indoors.

 

Now you have all the keys in your hands to pamper yourself with produce grown by you, all thanks to your indoor vegetable garden.