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.
Herb Garden - Indoor
One can nurture fresh herbs, cherry tomatoes, chives and chill peppers on the counter top of their kitchen if they can create a mini green house indoors. There would be nothing more exciting than to prepare a pasta dish or a chili con care with the help of the ingredients grown by them.
You can make a DIY indoor greenhouse with a seed bed, a wooden frame and some plastic sheeting, or you can buy a variety of kits or ready made greenhouses, containing everything you need to grow plants in even the smallest space.
Hydroponics and Aeroponics
If you have made your mind to create a mini green house indoors, care has to be taken so as not spill the potting soil all over your place. The best way to avoid this is to opt for the aeroponic or hydroponics green houses. Hydroponics refers to a process of cropping plants without soil and aeronopics is a process where no specific growing medium is used.
In hydroponics, the main medium for delivering nutrients to the plants is water. Some gardeners plant the roots directly into a solution of minerals dissolved in water, while others use an aggregate medium such as diahydro (a natural sediment made from fossilized algae), coconut fiber, gravel, brick shards or mineral wool.
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 Your Hydroponic 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.
One can use solutions made organically for controlling the pests. These include extracts from orange peel. They can be sprayed on the plants to get rid of pests. These herbal extracts will kill a wide range of pests and friendly bugs which prey on pests while leaving the plants untouched.
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