Every so often the question comes up on how we heat our indoor garden/greenhouse or why we heat the indoor garden with electricity. For those that don't know we are in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains in Alberta, Canada. It is cold here. We use our indoor growing room year-round. In the ...
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Indoor Garden Update Fall/Winter 2019
In the summer of 2014, we started the adventure of converting an old garage into a food production place. As you will see in this indoor garden update fall/winter 2019, we have come a long way. The story When we first started we had big plans and zero experience in indoor gardening especially in ...
What to Grow in an Indoor Edible Window Garden
If you have followed us for a while you will know that we grow an indoor window garden in the back of our garage that we converted into a food production place. Over the years we have grown a lot of plants indoors at a window: Microgreens, herbs, Aloe Vera, strawberries, lettuce, winter ...
NFT downspout Hydroponics system upgrade
Nutrient Film Technique (N.F.T.) Downspout Hydroponics is an exceptionally simple hydroponics setup. Last winter we built a NFT downspout Hydroponics system to grow lettuce indoors all throughout the winter. We share a how-to here. We are very pleased how the system works, of all the other ...
High Pressure Aeroponics Guide
Recently we described our NFT downspout hydroponics system which you can read about here. Now imagine having a large box for the plant's roots that are now suspended in the air, and the nutrient-rich water solution is being sprayed onto the roots in a form of a fine mist. What you will get is called ...
Starting Seeds Indoors
Winter in our area isn't over yet. The last frost day is still more than two months away. But spring is coming and with it the next growing season! Starting seeds indoors is the start for a new garden season. Why start seeds indoors? Why we do things depends on what we want to achieve. What is the ...
Growing Microgreens and Baby Salad Greens
Growing microgreens and baby salad greens at home is easy and adds instant homegrown freshness to your meals. Microgreens and baby salad greens are great for growing indoors during the long winter months. What is the difference between sprouts, microgreens, and baby greens An emerging shoot from a ...
GARDEN UPDATE – Winter 2019 ON VIDEO
Winter 2019 has been good to us and now it is time for a garden update - winter 2019 on video. We do these updates to encourage you and us to keep growing. To see what has worked well and what needs improvement and to learn from it. You can see last years' winter garden update here. During the ...
N.F.T. Downspout Hydroponics Setup
There are a few types of hydroponic systems: Water Culture, Ebb and Flow (Flood & Drain), Drip (recovery or non-recovery), N.F.T. (Nutrient Film Technique) and Aeroponic. We already listed the benefits of a vertical aeroponics system here, in this article I want to show you how to set up a ...
An Alternative to a Passive Solar Greenhouse – Indoor Window Garden
Welcome to another update of our indoor window garden. Today we talk about the advantage of a window garden as an alternative to a passive solar greenhouse in a cold northern climate. In our experience the window garden has preformed very well growing year round in Zone 3 (temperature here can go ...