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 ...
Edible Window Garden
Controlling aphids with No-Pest strips
For years I thought that cold and frost are our biggest foe, but not any longer. With the indoor garden we can grow food even in -40 degrees. However, what turns out to be a real challenge is pests. Aphids, spider mites and scales can easily ruin an indoor or greenhouse garden. We mostly have to ...
Growing an indoor edible window garden in water
Growing an indoor edible window garden in water instead of soil opens a whole new world of indoor gardening. Growing plants in water is called hydroponics, here plant nutrients are distributed via water. The word "hydro" simply means water, hence hydroponics. The benefits of growing an indoor ...
Where to grow an edible window garden
Location is everything when it comes to a successful garden. It is the same with an indoor garden. Your edible window garden will greatly depend on the windows you have. Not every window is equally good for a window garden, let's see where to grow an edible window garden. Choose the best window for ...
Edible Window Garden
In the fall, when the outdoor garden is done and the temperature drops to freezing and below, we move back into our house and wait for spring grow an indoor edible window garden. This is the first post of many to come about indoor edible window gardening. Grow food year-round at any weather ...
