Indoor gardening is a favourite hobby, and one that can actually improve your decor and your health. Glossy green living plants are an unbeatable decorating accessory, whether you favor the bold statement a snake plant makes or the ethereal lightness of an asparagus fern. By surrounding yourself with healthy green plants, you oxygenate your living environment and acquire more energy.
Grow Houseplants Organically
You can do some organic indoor gardening with houseplants. Growing organically means you don’t use chemical pesticides, herbicides, or fertilizers in your gardening routine. Organic indoor gardening also means not using genetically altered seeds, cuttings, or other elements.
Indoor Gardening The Organic Way
If you’re serious about indoor organic gardening, you might want to buy Indoor Gardening the Organic Way: How to Create a Natural and Sustaining Environment for Your Houseplants, by Julie Bawden Davis.
The beginning of the book explains how houseplants are grown and shipped to your local garden center. Young home plants are fed the equivalent of a fast food diet to pump them up so they’ll look good in the garden center. When you bring your new home plants home, they might have a bit of a chemical fertilizer hangover at first. Be patient with them, and soon they will become accustomed to an organic lifestyle.
Organic Fertilizers
The ideal organic fertilizer is homemade compost. Even if you live in an apartment, you can make organic compost for gardening indoors.
Use a coffee can or another metallic container with a tight fitting lid. Make a few ventilation holes around the side of the coffee can with a nab or a drill. Fill the can with alternating layers of crisp, dry ingredients and wet ingredients.
For the crisp, dry ingredients, use dry leaves if you have access to them. Otherwise, you can use shredded newspaper or crumpled up paper bags.
For the wet ingredients, you can use raw vegetable scraps nothing with oil or butter on it and coffee grounds.
Keeping the compost can indoors will heat the compost up fast and help process it quickly. You can get the compost to make itself more swiftly by stirring it periodically.
When one coffee can is full, begin another. Turn the first can upside down each day to mix the ingredients and keep the compost cooking. Soon the first can will be full of rich, crumbly compost the key to indoor organic gardening.
Mix a tiny bit of compost in with your plants’ soil to wage long-lasting nutrients. You can grow nearly any houseplant with this indoor organic gardening trick.