Indoor Gardening: A Comprehensive Guide To Choose The Best Lighting For Your Indoor Garden

By Bertha Mills

Indoor gardening has taken a big gain in popularity over the past few years. People love the idea of being able to grow a garden inside even if they have a short growing season or they want to have some fruits and vegetables all year long. This guidebook is meant to provide you with all of the information that you need to understand one of the most important parts of the whole indoor gardening experience; the lighting. 

While it would be nice to just try and use natural lighting on your indoor garden, this is not always something that is possible. You might have issues with it being too cloudy and dark most days of the winter and the plants are the ones that will suffer. With the help of this guidebook, you will learn the steps that need to be taken in order to ensure that the lighting is perfect and the plants grow the right way. 

In this guidebook, you will learn a lot about how to do the proper lighting for your indoor garden. Inside you will learn:

- Why the lighting is so important for your indoor garden

- The different types of lighting that you can use for the garden

- Which plants you should choose to grow inside for the best results

- How to get your indoor lights all set up

- Preparing the plants so they are ready to be grown inside

- The best places to put the garden in order to properly utilize your indoor garden

- What to do if the indoor lights stop working properly

- The best ways to enjoy the fruits of your labor all year long with the help of canning.

• Language: English
• Publisher: JVzon Studio
• Release date: Apr 10, 2017
• ISBN: 9781386023739

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Introduction

There are so many reasons why you might consider growing an indoor garden in your home. You might find that it is nice to have some of the fruits and vegetables that you love available no matter what time of year it is. Others like that they are able to control the weather when the plants are inside and still others might find that bending down and doing all of the work outside is just too hard for them to do. All of these are good reasons why you would want to move your garden inside, but what are you going to do in order to ensure that the plants are getting the amount of sun light inside that they need in order to grow nice and strong. This guidebook is going to spend some time looking at how important lighting is to setting up your indoor garden.

Chapter 1 starts out the guidebook with some information on why you should use lighting in your indoor garden. Many people think that it would be a waste of their time to do this because they should be able to just place the plants near a window and then give them enough of the light. While this would be nice, often there just is not enough light outside during the winter in order to help the plants out and they may fail. Chapter 2 goes on to talk about some of the different kinds of lighting that you can consider when you are using them for an indoor garden. There are a lot of options that you can consider such as the High Intensity Discharge Bulbs and the Fluorescent lights. You can also use some other options such as light movers and reflective Mylar to help make sure that your plants are getting the right amount of light that they need in order to thrive.

Next comes chapter 3 and this one is going to spend some time talking about the kinds of plants that are going to grow the best inside. This one can be tough because you want to include some of your favorite fruits and vegetables in the garden but you want to pick some that are going to be sturdy and will last through the winter even though they are not outside. Once you have chosen the kinds of plants that you would like to use in the garden, you will need to get the lights all set up. The plants you choose are important because then you will be able to determine the kinds of lights that you need and where you should be placing them in the garden for the best results for everyone.

Next comes some ideas on how you should prepare the plants for the indoor garden. You will want to situate the plants in such a way that they are going to make the most efficient use of the space that you have without being a pain when it comes time to water them and use the light on them. This chapter 5 brings up some of the importance that comes with container gardening and hydroponic gardening, the two most popular methods of planting for your indoor garden and some of the steps that you should take in order to get the garden fully prepared and ready to go and grow. Chapter 6 talks about some of the best places in your home to leave plants. While you are basically going to have to choose the best options that are available in the space that you have, it is best if you are able to find a place near a window that your plants can get natural light at least part of the time. This chapter ends with some advice on places not to leave the plants, such as a cold basement or an attic, because these are not going to help the plants thrive like you are working for.

For chapter 7 you will learn some of the things that you will need to do in case the lights of your lamps stop working. For the most part this is going to occur because you did not take the proper care of changing out the bulbs when it needed done. This chapter will take some time to explore the reasons that the lamps started to not work and some of the precautions you will need to take in case one of the lamp bulbs burst open and the shards of glass ended up getting all over the place. Chapter 8 will finish out the guidebook with some advice on what you can do in order to save your produce all year round. This talks about the importance of canning and how you can use it in order to get those fruits and vegetables, no matter what kinds you chose, to last you through until you can get some more planted.

As you can see, there are a lot of things that you can enjoy when it comes to growing an indoor garden and the lighting that you choose to go with it is often the most important part. You should use this guidebook in order to get started on understanding why lights are so important to the garden and how you should pick them out and use them to get the best results no matter what kind of garden you are growing. Use these steps in order to get going on it all today and grow the best fruits and vegetables ever.

Chapter 1 – The Importance of Lighting Your Indoor Garden

Growing a garden is something that a lot of people like to do. They like the idea of having their own fruits and vegetables whenever they want them and that they do not have to go to the store and worry about whether the store will have an item in stock or if they will be able to afford the prices. It is also a lot of fun to get down and dirty and find out if you are able to plant things on your own and become a one with nature. Gardening is something that people like to do as a kind of