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Crafting A Mini Greenhouse Indoors

January 16th, 2010 | by Kelly James |

The word Mini Indoor Green house covers every possible green house of any size in the indoor. In the following article smallest of all indoor green houses would be discussed where you can grow small flowers and herbs.

An Indoor Herb Garden

With a mini indoor greenhouse, it is possible to grow fresh herbs on your kitchen counter top, as well as cherry tomatoes, chili peppers and chives. Imagine making a chili con carne or pasta dish with ingredients you’ve grown yourself.

All you required to make a indoor green house is wooden frame, plastic sheeting and seed bed. There are many readymade kits which are also available in market which contains things you need to grow plants in that small space of green house.

Hydroponics and Aeroponics

If you are setting a indoor mini green house in your kitchen or in living room then you may face the problem of potting soil which you definitely wants to avoid. The solution to tackle this problem is to use hydroponic or aeroponic green house. The art of growing plants without the use of soil is hydroponics whereas art of growing plants without using any medium is called aeroponic.

Water is the main medium for delivering nutrients to plants in case of hydroponics. General practice of gardeners is to use the solution of mineral and water and then put the roots of the plants directly into that mixture. Some other uses diahydro which is natural sediment made from fossilized algae, gravel, coconut fiber, and mineral wool or brick shards.

In aeroponics, instead of placing plants in water they are hanged in air and constant mixture of nutrient and water is sprayed over them. This particular technique of aeroponics is developed by NASA because of their interest in growing plants in zero gravity regions. After that this technique is been used in indoor green house for home use. These techniques of aeroponics are very expensive but are less messy as compared to hydroponics techniques. An indoor green house made from this technique will cost you around $150 whereas hydroponics is very cheap.

Pests in a Hydroponics Greenhouse

The biggest advantage of cropping plants in the hydroponics way is that it attracts lesser pests as there is no usage of soil. However there are no plants that are completely immune to blights and bugs. It is advised that you do not use any pesticides that have harsh chemicals as they can get into the solution and inturn poison the plants.

For pest control, organic solution should be employed. This solution contains the extract of orange peel. This organic solution is then sprayed onto the plants which suffocated the pest. There one more way to tackle the problem of pest by using herbal extracts. These extracts kill majority of the pest species. There is one more option to control pest through friendly bugs that kills pest harmful to plants without affecting the plants.

Do you really want to learn how to build a greenhouse? Then you should visit this site which has more useful information on build a greenhouse on your own in easy steps.

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