Start Your Own Indoor Vegetable Garden Hydroponically

Have you ever thought of growing home grown vegetables, fruits and plants all the year around? Yes, you can through using hydroponic gardening techniques. Indoor hydroponic garden is a hobby that allows you to grow vegetables and fruits throughout the year with much less effort. Hydroponics is a technique of growing plant without the use of soil. In Indoor hydroponic gardening, plants are met with proper growing conditions such as lighting, temperature, growing medium and nutrient solution. In indoor garden, you do not have to worry about outdoor temperature and pests that harm your plants. Here is your complete guide to start your own indoor vegetable garden. 

Nutrient Solution: The secret of growing wonderful vegetables hydroponically is in finding the right nutrient solution. It is quite necessary to distribute correct nutrient solution to yield healthy plants.  Usually, hydroponic gardener should use a commercially made nutrient solution rather than making your own. The important key for successful hydroponic vegetable is through maintaining the perfect pH level of the solution used.  Ensure that proper air circulation is maintained at the plant roots to produce best absorption of the nutrient solution. This can be done through the use of air pump, air stone and hose. The basic components for hydroponic nutrient solution are potassium nitrate, potassium phosphate, magnesium sulfate and calcium nitrate.  They must be fully dissolved in the mixture and supplied to vegetable plants’ roots. When plants are small, nutrient solution should be used for 14 days and once the plants are developed, the solution can be replaced after every 7 days.

Temperature, humidity and Location: With indoor vegetable garden, you can place your plants in high traffic area or mostly used family room. High traffic area will make sure ample of carbon dioxide in the air or grow room to nourish the plant. Maintaining the appropriate temperature of the environment is vital for plants to thrive. An ideal temperature of 65 to 75 degrees or normal room temperature is perfect for your indoor plants. Normal humidity levels should encourage plant’s health. A humidity level too low or high can damage your plants growth.

Lighting: It is very crucial to supply your indoor plants with proper lighting conditions. Avoid using HID lights that emits extra heat and increases your grow room temperature. This might burn your houseplants. Hence switch to LED grow lights with a timer to maintain proper temperature and provide your plants with required lights.

Hydroponic System: Hydroponic gardener might find ebb flow or deep water hydro system quiet simpler and easy to work for indoor vegetable garden. You can also opt for other hydroponic system such as aeroponic system- a proper solution for vertical or vegetable gardening. N.F.T. system is the best system that saves your money and reuses nutrient solution for several planting cycle. Choose the right system that suits your plants and growing environment.

Care and Maintenance: Test the water pH level before planting to make sure they have pH level of 6.0 to 6.5 maximum. You can adjust the pH by adding the potassium hydroxide and phosphoric acid. Ensure that water includes proper quantity of hydroponic nutrients to feed the plants. You can water daily or alternately depends on vegetables growing needs. Fertilize every two weeks to avoid degradation of nutrients and use a balanced organic fertilizer for best results. As you grow indoors, chances of pests and disease are less but still pets are more common to houseplants. Hence, you can use insecticidal soaps. 

When you lack space and outdoor land to start with traditional garden, try hydroponic gardening, also called as soil-less gardening to get best outcomes. Indoor hydroponic gardening set up can take little effort to get used to but once you learned how to use it, it can be effective to grow best vegetables and plants of any kind.