Grow Houseplants Organically
You can do some organic indoor gardening with houseplants. Growing organically
means you don't use chemical pesticides, herbicides, or fertilizers in your
gardening routine. Organic indoor gardening also means not using genetically
modified seeds, cuttings, or other elements.
Indoor Gardening the Organic Way
If you're serious about indoor organic gardening, you might want to purchase
Indoor Gardening the Organic Way: How to Create a Natural and Sustaining
Environment for Your Houseplants, by Julie Bawden Davis.
The beginning of the book explains how houseplants are grown and shipped to
your local garden center. Young house plants are fed the equivalent of a fast
food diet to pump them up so they'll look good in the garden center. When you
bring your new house plants home, they may have a bit of a chemical fertilizer
hangover at first. Be patient with them, and soon they will become accustomed
to an organic lifestyle.
Organic Fertilizers
The best organic fertilizer is homemade compost. Even if you live in an
apartment, you can make organic compost for gardening indoors.
Use a coffee can or another metallic container with a tight fitting lid. Make a
few ventilation holes around the side of the coffee can with a nail or a drill.
Fill the can with alternating layers of crisp, dry ingredients and wet
ingredients.
For the crisp, dry ingredients, use dry leaves if you have access to them.
Otherwise, you can use shredded newspaper or crumpled up paper bags.
For the wet ingredients, you can use raw vegetable scraps nothing with oil or
butter on it and coffee grounds.
Keeping the compost can indoors will heat the compost up fast and help process
it quickly. You can get the compost to make itself more quickly by stirring it
periodically.
When one coffee can is full, start another. Turn the first can upside down
every day to mix the ingredients and keep the compost cooking. Soon the first
can will be full of rich, crumbly compost the key to indoor organic gardening.
Mix a little bit of compost in with your plants' soil to provide long-lasting
nutrients. You can grow almost any houseplant with this indoor organic
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