BKC Solutions Corner

Whether you’re growing plants indoors in your home or you are use a greenhouse for indoor organic gardening, the process is still the same. Organic gardening is more than just getting rid of chemicals and any unnatural ingredients in the products that you utilize to tend to your plants. It’s the entire process of providing healthy food products to your plants and keeping them free of pests, not with chemicals, but by using other “good” pests to eliminate the “bad” pests. It’s similar to the farmer who puts a scarecrow in the garden to repel the crows. It’s a matter of utilizing products that are on hand, and making use of our resources to combat the problems during indoor organic gardening.

When one has an indoor garden, it’s more important that you practice indoor organic gardening than with an outside garden. Even though it may not sound politically correct, it simply means that you put your family at risk when you put chemicals on indoor plants. That doesn’t mean that you shouldn’t care just as much if you’re growing things outdoors, but outdoors, oftentimes the natural elements in the air will eliminate many of the toxins that might otherwise become a part of the plants themselves, but when you grow things indoors, you do not have the potential for that to happen. Thus, it’s more important to practice indoor organic gardening for the safety of your family and those who may enter the building where your plants are housed.

Home gardening can be a great experience itself due to limited available spaces, especially if you have a porch or tiny room as compared to a greenhouse which has lots of space. You, of course, want to choose plants that you are going to grow contingent upon the space you have available so that they will be able to grow properly, and you can keep them healthy for the duration of the time they must be indoors. For example, unless you have a greenhouse, you are not going to grow lettuce, potatoes, or corn because there isn’t enough room. In fact, one couldn’t even grow corn in a greenhouse, though they may attempt lettuce or potatoes if it’s a big enough building.

When growing organic plants indoors, make sure plants have space to grow and to use organic pest control rather than chemicals. Indoor planting requires both knowledge and preparation and if you are doing it for the first time you should be sure of what exactly are the needs and arrange for all the organic products in advance.