Start Your Own Indoor Garden Today

Finding out what kinds of vegetables have the most impact on your health and then incorporating them into your diet is the cornerstone to turning your health around.

However, regardless of how amazing vegetables are, you also need to be aware of where your vegetables come from. This is why I always recommend trying to get in touch with your local supplier and discovering what goes into his/her crop.

Pesticides alone can cause serious diseases like leukaemia. GMOs on the other hand, can cause permanent damage to your intestinal bacteria, potentially compromising your immune system’s ability to protect you.

So what can you do besides being chummy with your local produce supplier?

This is when starting your own indoor garden begins to sound even more appealing.

Why? Because by taking control of your source of vegetables you can be absolutely sure that what you’re cooking is free of pesticides and GMOs.

Additionally, it’s an amazingly relaxing hobby that’s the perfect medicine to reduce the stress.

Ok, so where do you start?

Let’s begin with the basics, the seeds. Make sure your seeds are natural non-GMO seeds. To do this you should either research and contact your local sellers or use these handy apps that help you determine if a company or producer uses GMO seeds.

Build Your Own Indoor Garden

1. Your Containers

If your budget allows it, you can buy these to meet your specifications at your local gardening store.

Or you can make your own containers. Simply use the bottoms of your old milk cartons and poke a drainage hole in the bottoms.

Then use the wire from a coat hanger as the frame for the containers. Wrap the bottom of the containers and frame with plastic wrap.

2. Choosing Your Soil

Seeds usually contain more than enough nutrients to help them get through their sprouting phase. Therefore you just need to make sure that seed soil is absolutely free of toxins.

Don’t buy or use normal gardening soil just yet, it’s too tough for your seeds to break through. Instead, I recommend combining organic seed starter mix with a natural fertilizer.

As a finishing touch, moisten your mix with a spray bottle. Then make sure you’re not packing the soil tightly because it will be too hard for your seeds.

3. Sowing

Give your seeds at least three inches of space so they can grow freely. After you place the seed, make sure you cover it with enough soil, try to go for roughly three times their volume.

To avoid confusion, make sure you label each container.

4. Watering

You can either soak your containers until the soil mixture is really moist or you could just use a watering can. Make sure the watering can has a rose nozzle so you don’t move the seeds out of place.

Keep your soil moist but not waterlogged.

When To Start Seeding

Before you start seeding, you need to know when spring officially starts in your region. With that information, you can plan when to prepare each type of seed:

– 12 to 14 weeks before spring, plant onions, leeks, and chives.

– 8 to 12 weeks, peppers and lettuce.

– 6 to 8 weeks, eggplants and tomatoes.

– 2 to 4 weeks, cucumbers, melons, okra, and squash.

I hope you enjoy this healthy new hobby.