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The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

3 - Basic Indoor Garden Setup

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Education, Home & Garden, How To, Leisure

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 14 December 2020

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Winter doesn't mean you have to stop growing...you can set up a simple indoor garden. It's a bit more complicated as you need lighting, but this episode breaks it down.

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0:00.0

Hello everyone I hope it is not too cold and dreary where you're living but if it is

0:17.6

why not set up a little indoor garden setup that works really well and is

0:25.3

relatively inexpensive. The thing about growing indoors is it's going to be slightly more expensive than growing outdoors

0:27.9

because you have to provide the number one input that a plant needs which would

0:31.1

be of course the sun you have to fake the sun.

0:34.0

And I've been getting a lot of questions,

0:35.0

especially in winter, about what are the best options

0:40.0

for growing indoors,

0:41.0

whether that be in a more extreme way, a high budget I suppose,

0:46.0

or just something nice and simple. Now, of course the simplest thing to do is to grow in your

0:50.0

window sill with whatever light that you can muster, I would say a south-facing window sill with whatever light that you can muster I would say a south facing

0:54.0

window sill with as much light as you can possibly get I mean that will do okay not

0:58.6

great especially in the winter as light is low but if that's all you want to do or all you can afford to do, then

1:05.7

certainly that's better than nothing, right? There's nothing wrong with that.

1:08.8

Now if you want to upgrade a little bit, then what you can do is get some kind of grow light and there are a lot of different methods to grow lights.

1:16.0

There's just a lot of different technology out there.

1:18.0

It can be overwhelming and that's probably why I get so many questions about affordable indoor grow lights.

1:23.7

The first thing to know is, are you going for aesthetics or are you going for function?

1:27.8

That's the first question to ask yourself.

1:29.8

Because if you're going for aesthetics,

1:31.5

you're probably gonna sacrifice some performance or your

1:34.5

cost is going to go way up so that quote-unquote looks good. If you're going for

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