Indoor and Balcony Gardening. Posted on Nov 19, 2010 in DIY Projects , Emergency Preparedness & Survival , Urban Gardening, Farming & Homesteading It’s quite feasible to grow your own food even if you live in an urban space and have no outdoor room to garden. If you have just a bit of space on a balcony, patio or rooftop, you can grow even more. Here’s an overview of how to grow food for yourself and your family if you’re living without a large yard and transportation to move large quantities of plants and supplies to your house.
Gardening inside presents unique challenges. Techniques that are simple outside require a bit of ingenuity inside. Supplies: where to find, how to have them shipped Space: small apartments aren’t conducive to traditional fruit-tree growing techniques Light: light levels are drastically reduced on the inside Crops: which will produce in shadier conditions Pollination: certain fruit crops require pollination (generally done by insects) in order to produce Lettuce Peas Bush beans Potatoes Carrots Turnips. Growing Celery Indoors. Remember when we tested and shared how to grow onions indefinitely last week? Well, at the same time, we've been testing out another little indoor gardening project first gleaned from Pinterest that we're excited to share the successes of today — regrowing celery from it's base.
We've figured out how to literally re-grow organic celery from the base of the bunch we bought from the store a couple weeks ago. I swear, we must have been living under a rock all these years or just not be that resourceful when it comes to food, but we're having more fun learning all these new little tips and tricks as we dive deeper into trying to grow more of our own food. This project is almost as simple as the onion growing project — simply chop the celery stalks from the base of the celery you bought from the store and use as you normally would. In our case, we had a particular homemade bean dip that needed sampling! Update 2: Here's how we are looking at almost 3-4 weeks of growth: Discover More: Build Your Own Salad Table. A garden in my apartment.
Indoor Gardening. Planter Table. Zahra Shahabi and Ollie Hammick/CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 Beyond the conventional planter on your balcony, there are many ways to grow food and herbs right in your own home, without the need to rely on a trip to the store. London-based designers Jamie Elliott and Liam Healy of JAILmake created this table that's a mix of eating surface and mini-garden, where the legs are re-fashioned as planters and trellises to support climbing plants.
Jaime and Liam describe the motivation behind this simple but intriguing design they call "Plantable", which is handmade to order in their South East London workshop using English oak and metal: The Plantable reintroduces nature back into the experience of gathering, cooking and eating a meal. It takes a currently domesticated object and enables nature to claim it back.The space provided for plants to grow in the four legs reflects on the distance we place between ourselves and the processes involved in making our food. Sustainable indoor farming. Plantable: All-In-One Table & Trellis Hybrid Lets You Grow, Harvest and Eat. Éva Compost Homefarm by Francois Hurtaud. You can mistake Éva as a modern decorative piece for restaurants, but it’s a trendy, hi-tech composter. It blends in beautifully with any interior and does a magnificent job of recycling wasted organic matter. A part of the waste is used for cultivating and maintaining a green patch and the rest is used to produce methane.
I love the way it integrates and becomes a self-contained biosphere! Designer: François Hurtaud. Grow an Indoor Garden on Your Wall With a Sleek, Magnetic Planter System. How to grow herbs indoors this winter. Five Tips for Starting Vegetable Seedlings Indoors. There are a variety of reasons why gardeners start their vegetable plants inside. Many do it to save money on the high price of organic seedlings at the garden center.
The truth is starting seeds indoors can be even more costly than buying plants. So if saving money is your goal, you need to be careful to keep costs down. But saving money isn’t the only reason to start plants early. In the northern U.S., vegetable gardeners start their plants indoors to get a jump on the short growing season. If you’re growing plants early in hoop houses, for example, commercial seed starts probably won’t be ready in time. If you are starting seeds inside, as so many on KGI will, here are five tips for keeping costs down. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. I’m sure you know about other ways to reduce the cost of starting seeds indoors.
The Spinning Indoor Garden. Blog » The Top 10 Plants for Removing Indoor Toxins. Common indoor plants may provide a valuable weapon in the fight against rising levels of indoor air pollution. NASA scientists are finding them to be surprisingly useful in absorbing potentially harmful gases and cleaning the air inside homes, indoor public spaces and office buildings.
The indoor pollutants that affect health are formaldehyde, Volatile Organic Compounds (benzene and trichloroethylene or TCE), airborne biological pollutants, carbon monoxide and nitrogen oxides, pesticides and disinfectants (phenols), and radon. These pollutants contribute to ‘sick building syndrome’, which causes symptoms ranging from allergies, headaches and fatigue through to nervous-system disorders, cancer and death. Through studies conducted by NASA, scientists have identified 50 houseplants that remove many of the pollutants and gases mentioned above.
Dr. B. C. More information on this study as well as references and details on specific chemicals can be found on Dr. Dr. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. Indoor Harvest Gardens. Hanging Mini-Greenhouse Also Doubles As Pendant Lamp. Photos: Jaroslav Kvíz Short on space for growing herbs? Well, this graceful pendant lamp -- which doubles as a mini-greenhouse -- could be one way to add more luscious greenery to one's space and diet.
Created by Czech designer Krstyna Pojerova, the 'Glasshouse' is a bulbous glass form that features an opening at the bottom, which allows you to harvest the greens growing along the lamp's inverted rim.According to Pojerova, who is currently studying at Prague's Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design, the design was inspired by the "desire to grow fresh herbs within an urban kitchen. " The central opening both "facilitates easy access to the herbs and the passage of light from an electric bulb hanging up in the lights. " Apparently, the lamp can be used for sprouting and soil-based mini-gardens. Best of all, the wasted heat from using an incandescent is wasted no more; it's used to help your greens grow.
The Babylone: A lush multi-tasking lamp.