How to Grow an Indoor Survival Garden
Growing our own fresh fruits and vegetables is one of my favorite pastimes. Sometimes growing your own food is a requirement for survival and not just a pleasant hobby.
Tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers, herbs, lettuce, and greens can all be grown inside of your home with a little bit of knowledge, the right supplies, and some tender loving care.
My adventure in growing food indoors began this year when the pandemic hit, and I realized that I needed to up my game when it came to growing our own food. I am not new to the home production scene, but suddenly I was driven to make food production more than a hobby.
In this video, we review the basics of indoor gardening, setting production goals, and give you a feel for our progress growing food inside of our home.
Learn more about growing a survival garden in this article:
How to Grow an Indoor Survival Garden
https://theprovidentprepper.org/how-to-grow-an-indoor-survival-garden/
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Can you tell me how you keep pest away
I’m primarily an outdoor gardener though I have 4 aero gardens and 1 click and grow system for gardening indoors in the winter. I have the same racks, lights, etc. you have (in my craft room) and I’m contemplating using them for a larger scale indoor grow. ESP. For my favorites, baby bok choy, mizuna, and wasabi arugula. I love your strategy with the dishpans. I haven’t thought about stacking them. I noticed you can buy in bulk(same price) from dollar tree online. I plan to order today so I can start this system after I complete my grading (I’m a college prof) for the fall. Have you tried indoor mushrooms for those sandwiches?
I just purchased the exact same shelving unit to make my own indoor grow tent. I have some mylar that I plan to attach to it. Happy growing!
Quick question: so you start off the germination process by putting them in the organic gardening mix, and then once you transplant them they go in the potting soil?
Wow, this is so cool. I'm totally with you. I need to make space and am excited to give this a try on a smaller scale. Your enthusiasm is inspirational. Thanks so much. I subscribed
In general, when it comes to pest control, forget chemicals and vinegar and this old wive's tale and that old wive's tale. Seriously, nature figured this out a long time ago. If you have pests, all you need are predators. Same idea with having a few cats to chase mice.
Put some very-fine mesh screen netting around the growing area and introduce a few Encarsia and/or Eretmocerus genera wasps. And I know you may think "argh, wasps" but trust me. They're no bigger than the flies they will be hunting. 1mm-2mm in size. They are parasitic carnivores however and they are very aggressive hunters. They'll even go for the fly larvae too.
Those flies won't last long at all and it's literally as "all natural" a method as you can get. 🙂
Here is a picture of one so you can see how tiny they are. No risk to humans or pets. The wasps actually spend the majority of their life cycle as juveniles living inside the whitefly hosts. They eventually emerge as adults and live just long enough to mate and then lay eggs in a new host. Also being parasitic in nature, the overall wasp population will be directly proportional to their source of new hosts. As the flies die out, the wasps will diminish in number. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encarsia#/media/File:Encarsia_perplexa.jpg
Nice video. Something everyone should look into using is compost. Compost doesn’t leak it’s nutrients.
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. John 3:16 KJV, Jesus Christ is the only way..
What kind of lightening do you need for inside garden???
I've never had a green thumb. My grandma who just passed a year ago was a florist and had a big garden. So I'm hoping I've got some hidden talent from her, somewhere. With the way things have been and are getting, I'm definitely going to start gardening. 🙂