When to start an indoor garden
Setting up a Basic Indoor Grow Room
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hi I'm Steven LaFell berta urban garden
dot CA as fall takes hold in the garden
outside blinds down for the winter I
love to start to grow inside my house on
today's video I'm going to give you some
quick tips on getting set up growing
indoors much like growing outdoors
growing indoors does not have to be
complex or expensive in order to grow
indoors you'll need three main things
soil light and seeds so aisle is the
most important part about growing
indoors typically I grown a very simple
mixture of one part soilless potting mix
and one part compost the soilless
potting mix will hold water while
allowing free drainage in the pot this
is important as most of the issues
indoor growers encounter have to do with
over watering and the soil being too
saturated for too long there are usually
enough nutrients in the compost to
completely eliminate the need for
fertilizer products during the indoor
growing season I typically like to
purchase these products near the end of
the season when they're on sale the
reason that I like to purchase these
products as opposed to make them myself
is that they're fairly devoid of life
specifically this is important for pests
if you bring in a pest from say a
compost that you've made and it is able
to get going indoors it's not regulated
by the Predators that would regulate it
outside and they can cause a lot of
damage very quickly now that we have the
soil dealt with the next most important
part is the light the plants need to
grow light as you can imagine is a very
important part of growing indoors if you
have a south or Southwest facing window
in the northern hemisphere or a north
facing window in the southern hemisphere
you can take advantage of the free
sunlight
I built a shelf under myself facing
window to take advantage of the natural
light coming through it in the winter if
you don't have access to a window like
mine you can use grow lights to grow
indoors during the winter if you start
doing a research integral lights you're
gonna find terms like nanometers
wavelengths Kelvin lumens watts well I
have gone into great depth into this
subject in the past in dirt row lights
can really be boiled down to two simple
tips pick the right type of light bulb
incandescent bulbs don't work very
well but compact fluorescent and
fluorescent lightbulbs do work very well
there are more expensive options such as
LED and high-pressure sodium lights just
to name a few but for what I want to
achieve I will stick with a more
affordable fluorescent lights the second
thing I recommend is to look for a bulb
that has the highest what's available in
the right Kelvin rating you are looking
for Kelvin rating of 6500 or 20 100
there are tools online that translate
the descriptions such as soft white into
a Kelvin rating lights with different
Kelvin ratings may work but they will be
far less efficient and you may not be
able to harvest any crops from under
them the final thing you will need is
seeds to grow
unlike outside inside your house using
either a window or grow lights there are
a few limitations to what you can grow
winter light by its nature is a little
bit weaker and once it comes through
this glass it loses a little bit of its
power as well and there's no grow light
that can even come close to replicating
the natural light during summer you can
push the limits with some very expensive
equipment but for the most part I like
to keep things simple and focus on the
crops I know work well indoors under
lower light conditions a cornerstone of
my winter garden is herbs and leafy
greens leafy greens and herbs are well
established to grow in lower light areas
making them perfect candidates to grow
indoors later in the season I do start
some of my summer crops inside such as
peppers and tomatoes but I don't really
push them to produce well some of the
smaller body peppers and tomatoes will
produce inside generally the crops are
quite small while the plant takes up a
lot of this valuable grow space that I
have with that in mind I do you like to
experiment and enjoy harvests of peppers
and tomatoes when I have the space
available over the long cold winter
months growing indoors during the winter
allows me to harvest fresh herbs and
leafy greens that go wonderfully with
the preserved crops from my summer
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