Looking for easy indoor gardening ideas to make your house greener and fresher? We got you covered! Read further and explore the best indoor gardening ideas.
During these tough times of COVID, every one of us has been stuck in our houses and searching for fun yet beneficial activities to dig in. But, have you tried indoor gardening? Yes, we are mentioning INDOOR GARDENING rather than outdoor because we know not every one of us has a wide house or a huge lawn. Also, outdoor gardening is not as budget-friendly as indoor gardening and also requires more maintenance, more skills, and more effort to get the job done successfully.
On the other hand, the outcome of indoor gardening not only saves you several hundred bucks but also furnishes your living space in a much more appealing and lively manner – imparting plenty of texture and colour to make you feel less stressed and more relaxed.
The best part is, you don’t have to specify a proper room, or a specific piece of land to accommodate your indoor plants. Just place the pots anywhere, over the window, or on the terrace, hallway, or any other corner which receives a good share of sunlight.
The cherry on the top is, if you consider some basic things, you can establish your indoor garden, even if you haven’t planted a single plant before. To guide you further in this respect, we’ve come up with some of the best yet easy indoor gardening ideas. Dive in and explore what could be helpful for you!
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Easy indoor gardening ideas
Create an indoor vertical garden
All those homeowners who are looking for a way to add greenery to their walls should try this indoor gardening hack. It doesn’t matter what’s the temperature outside the house, your vertical garden will stay flourishing and boosts your house aesthetics pleasantly. What’s a vertical garden and how can you create one, let me tell you!
What is a vertical garden?
The technique of growing vertical gardens is way too ancient and is used to grow the vegetation beside a wall or a suspended wooden panel. It is also called green walls, moss walls, or living walls.
The plants we attached to the support could either be wrapped around it or freestanding there. The height of the vertical garden could be different based on your choice. Generally, these green walls could be as small as a window and as large as a 50-60 ft wall.
These vertical gardens are best for the homes and office premises having limited space. The container and potted plants indeed come with the advantage of mobility but still, they grab a specific portion. On the other hand, these hanging vegetation would be there on the wall, emitting a lush green colour without requiring much space and maintenance.
Other benefits that will help you jump to this side of the fence are as follows
How to create a vertical garden?
So if you are interested in adorning the wall of your living room with a green wall, all you need to do is to follow these simple steps.
Select the wallSelect the wall – preferably the ugliest one or the wall having abrupt paint patches, so it gets covered beautifully by nature’s aesthetics. Also, choose the wall according to the type of vegetation you want to grow on it.
For example, consider how much sunlight the plants should receive and other growing conditions like temperature, moisture, drainage, etc.
Build vertical frameAfter choosing the wall, the next step is to build the frame. Usually, the three-layered wooden frames are employed for this purpose which is further adjoined by fabric and PVC strips.
Start with adjoining the PVC pipes to build a frame. After that, make the horizontal support using wooden piles. Lastly, attach a wall of plastic sheet to prevent the water from floating towards the wall.
In the end, cover the entire frame with fabric. This fabric will act as the living space for your plants. For this purpose, you can use carpet paddings or any other thick but airy material. Once set, inject the fertiliser and irrigation system and you’ll be all set to grow herbs, ornamental plants, flowers, or whatever you like.
Get potted plants
Mostly the indoor plants are potted in pots and do not come with the need to transplant into land after some months. Even when the plant grows to an incredible size, you can transfer it into a larger container. All you need to grow such indoor potted plants in a pot, a good quality potting mix, and fertiliser.
The most common and easiest indoor plants are bulbs, cacti, and succulents. However, grow such succulent plants only if your home gets sunlight for eight hours straight. Thankfully, they don’t need much water or maintenance to look fantastic, so if you have to follow a tight schedule mostly, such plants are your perfect fit.
On the other hand, if most of the windows and rooms of your home are shaded, you better go with shade-loving plants like Dracaena, philodendron, and Peace Lily.
Get hanging terrarium
This indoor gardening hack will make you fall in love with it if you are looking for a way to introduce breezy, fresh touches to your room. These hanging terrariums, as the name implies, are suspended planters; hanging on an eye level.
The plants introduced into the terrariums are also called the air plants; the one which grows in the air rather than soil. However, since they are not getting growth support from the soil, they need a strong and nearly constant supply of light. Thus, hang these terrariums near your bedroom’s windows.
The roots of these air plants are covered by moss, pebbles, or sand. Whatever the medium you choose, always keep it damp, all the time. However, you don’t have to let the water pool up since it will suffocate the roots and lead to root rotting or other mould or fungal infestation.
Create mini gardens
This DIY indoor gardening hack also serves as a sight to behold, without costing an arm and leg. In this, you just have to use the spare utensils, drawers, mason jars, or decoration pieces to grow plants there.
The best part is that you can fill all kinds of vegetation, from herbs to flowers, in these adorable yet affordable miniature gardens. Not only plants, but the entire plant-containing platter is filled with some other decorative items, like pebbles, clay, and even statues, to make it look like a natural garden.
Also, it’s totally up to you what should be the size of your mini-garden. It could be of any size, from the size of a cup to that of a mason tub. Just plan where you want to place this mini garden and create it accordingly. If you are thinking about making several mini gardens for your office, kitchen, or boutique, add some miniatures into the mix.
In this regard, the chicken garden is getting very trendy wherein a small clay-made duckling is placed into the potting mix. Even if someone neglects your efforts to build a mini garden, the chicken will grab your attention by adding a flair of colours and texture. To make the chicken garden more relevant, match the colours of duckling with the interior and other decorative settings.
Aero gardens
If you want to grow fresh veggies within your house premises, try the aero gardens – especially if your house doesn’t catch sufficient sunlight and air. The aero gardens are small glass globes with a complete setup to grow fresh produce in them.
The most common components are aero gardens contains are as follows
Within the small plant pods of the aero garden, you can grow a wide range of veggies including leafy greens, herbs, reddish, and cherry tomatoes. The reason why this indoor gardening hack is my favourite is that it requires no maintenance or monitoring at all. Within the aero gardens globe, your plants get everything, from water to light to food, even if you don’t touch it for months.
Some of such aero gardens also come with an LCD which shows the growth pattern, conditions and requirements of your plants. The computerised system of the globe takes care of all the guesswork and lets you know whenever your plants need something from you.
If the system finds that anything, from water to food to light, is not sufficient for the normal growth of plants, the monitor will send you the message, much earlier before the plants begin to wilt.