Indoor Gardening For Beginners And Experts Alike

Choose The Best Fast Growing House Plants For Your Home

Indoor gardening for beginners is made easier with fast growing house plants.  Not only can they be purchased at a smaller size, they are generally easy house plants to keep alive and the more they grow the more they purify the air.  Being able to see the growth in your house plants gives new gardeners an immediate confidence boost. 

Simply choose from our recommended fast growing house plants, get to know the conditions they will thrive in and provide them with the right amount of light, water and the occasional feeding.  Sit back and watch them grow.   

Maximise Your Harvest With Indoor Gardening Kits

There are a variety of indoor gardening kits, ranging from simple germination kits with seed trays, seeds, compressed soils and humidity lids to more advanced smart gardens, that provide the seeds and all the light, water and nutrients the plants require.

Deciding on the right indoor gardening kit for your home will ultimately depend on the space you have, the output you require, the functionality you want and the budget you have to spend.  Our indoor gardening kit recommendations will help you make an informed choice.

Where Natural light Is Limited, LED Grow Lights Can Help

Sometimes the plant you choose is specifically chosen to suit a particular spot in your home.  Sometimes you fall in love with a plant but you just don’t have the right spot with the right light for it to flourish.

Instead of leaving the house plant in the nursery, try investing in LED Grow Lights instead.  Bring the sunlight indoors!

These lights are specifically designed to provide the wavelengths of light required for photosynthesis.  And many have adjustable light levels so you can grow different plants under the one light.  Most are simple to use with timer functions that turn the lights on and off automatically, great if you are at work for the day or away on holidays.  Indoor gardening for beginners has never been easier.  With the flick of a switch your house plants are bathed in beautiful light helping them to grow and thrive, not just survive.

Select The Right Indoor Gardening Supplies To Give Your Plants The Best Start

Plants need light, water, soil and nutrients to survive.  Before you start purchasing your indoor gardening supplies, you need to decide what plants you want to grow and what requirements they have.  It’s important to take the time to get to know your house plants.  The more essential supplies will include:

Have You Tried Growing Indoor Water Plants?

Did you know it is possible to grow some plants in water, with no soil? 

This takes the guess work out of watering your plants.  Taking care of indoor plants in water is surprisingly very low maintenance. The variety of plants that will grow in water allows for a beautiful indoor garden for beginners, with a variety of leaf size, shapes and colors. 

Find an interesting glass jar, bowl or container and you are away (stay away from metal containers).  There are some house plants that grow in water permanently whilst others may grow for a time in water and then be better off transplanted into soil. Plants grown in water are likely to need some nutrients added to them to promote healthy growth.

Hydroculture is a unique method for growing plants in water, without soil, that relies on using a growing medium, such as a clay aggregate.  Hydroculture house plants tend to have very healthy root systems resulting in a plant that lives longer and is more resistant to disease and pests.  It can be a bit of work to set up a hydroculture house plant and is perhaps for the more experienced gardener rather than as an option for indoor gardening for beginners.  Despite the effort, the results are worth it.

The Best Terrarium Plants And Terrarium Supplies

Moss terrariums, hanging terrariums and miniature terrarium plants.  Whichever way you approach it, terrariums have an appeal all of their own. 

Fairy gardens, succulent plant-scapes or cacti gardens, the possibilities are endless!

Terrariums might look complicated but once they are established, they require very little care and maintenance, an ideal option as a way of indoor gardening for beginners. 

We recommend the best terrarium supplies to get you started and our terrarium guide will have you creating and caring for your own terrarium in no time.

Terrariums allow you to create a little microclimate in your home, a unique way for taking care of indoor plants and growing house plants that otherwise may not survive.  They are great indoor garden ideas for kids and the variety in terrariums and miniature terrarium plants may result in you having more than just one!

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