What You'll Find Here 

• Creating a Miniature Farm
• Garden Pros
• Planting Organic Fruits and Vegetables
• Garden Sites Worth A Look
• Growing Tomatoes Indoors
• Tiny Tim CherryTomato
• Sweet Baby Girl Cherry Tomatoes
• Sugar Daddy Cherry Tomatoes
• Growing Lettuce Indoors
• Growing Radishes Indoors
• Pots for Indoor Gardening
• Sign the Guestbook

Creating a Miniature Farm 

To begin your miniature farm, gather up any planters or containers that you can punch holes into. Also you'll need a tray to put underneath your planter or container to catch any water. Punch about 4 holes in the bottom of the container for drainage purposes (if your using a plastic milk container or something along those lines. After you have your containers, you'll need a few gardening essentials. Buy a big bag of potting soil, pete disks or pellets, small garden shovel, watering can, gardening gloves, and of course the vegetable seeds.

Decide what vegetables that you want to grow. Three really good indoor vegetable plants are cherry tomatoes, lettuce, and radishes.

Planting Organic Fruits and Vegetables 

Shows you how to grow vegetables and fruit, using organic methods, even if you don't have an outdoor garden; all that is necessary is a couple of pots or a window box.

Kitchen Harvest: Growing Oragnic Fruit, Vegetables & Herbs in Containers

by Susan Berry

Amazon Price: $13.57 (as of 10/11/2008)

Crops in Pots

by Bob Purnell

Amazon Price: $13.57 (as of 10/11/2008)

McGee & Stuckey's Bountiful Container: Create Container Gardens of Vegetables, Herbs, Fruits, and Edible Flowers

by Rose Marie Nichols McGee, Maggie Stuckey

Amazon Price: $12.21 (as of 10/11/2008)

Garden Sites Worth A Look 

Garden Pros Home Gardening Guide

Garden Pros your number one source for home garden products and home gardening information. Whether your new to gardening or an expert gardener, your sure to gain some valuable insights to your gardening techniques.

Garden Fountains

Browse our large selection of outdoor garden fountains. We have garden fountains that will fit just about every individuals needs.

Indoor Garden Systems

An indoor garden system will add a unique atmosphere and tranquility to your home along with the family and friends who gather there.

Garden Ponds and Accessories

The addition of a pond along with pond lighting, waterfalls, fountains and other pond accessories are a great way to make ordinary outdoor living spaces look truly unique and relaxing.

Container Gardening

It is now possible to garden in even the tightest of spaces with container gardening. Container gardening is the newest innovation of limited space gardening.

Garden Bridges

Garden bridges offer a unique addition to any outdoor space. You can use a garden bridge to cross a gently flowing stream from your garden pond.

Adirondack Furniture

Adirondack garden furniture offers exceptionally comfortable, affordable style of rustic furniture that can be used on the patio, poolside, in the garden and even indoors in game rooms.

Your Own Vegetable Garden

Planting and harvesting a vegetable garden can be a very rewarding experience. You can enjoy the rewards of growing your own food and have comfort in knowing that they are safe to eat.

Hillside Landscaping

Hillside landscaping does not have to be as hard as some people make it out to be. Follow these gardening tips and your sure to have success.

Indoor Container Gardening

Indoor container gardening with proper planning and care can do wonders for the interior of your home.You have your choice of growing beautiful flowers, exotic ferns and plants or home grown vegetables.

Growing Tomatoes Indoors 

The basics for growing tomatoes are sunlight and warm temperatures. If you have a window that receives at least four to six hours of sunlight, you're in business. This means a south or west exposure. The south side may actually make a better exposure during the winter months than in summer. The sun is lower in the sky then, and the rays can slant in through the windows. You may even find that tomatoes do better indoors in the winter than they do in the summer if your house is air-conditioned. (Tomato plants don't like chills of any kind.)

Plan on starting your tomato plants from seed. The following tomatoes are good for planting indoors: Tiny Tim Tomatoes, Sweet Baby Girl Cherry Tomatoes, and Sugar Daddy Cherry Tomatoes. Sow the seeds in individual compressed peat disks. When soaked in water, these disks expand to small, 1-inch pots complete with soil mix and plant nutrients; all you do is add the seed and water and care for them until the seedlings emerge. Plant three or four seeds to a pot, and snip off all but one of the seedlings after they're up and growing. When each seedling has acquired three or four sets of leaves, plant it, peat pot and all, into a larger pot - 8 to 10 inch for the miniature or cherry tomato, a 1-gallon container for larger tomatoes.

Fertilize the plants at transplanting time, again in three weeks, and about once a week while they are producing fruit.

If you want homegrown cherry tomatoes for the December holidays, start your seeds no later than the middle of October. Protect the plants from drafts. If necessary, rig up a small screen between the plant and the window to protect from drafts during the night.

Tomatoes raised indoor may need a substitute for the bees and breeze to accomplish pollination; otherwise, the plants may bloom but not set fruit. Each day while the plants are in blossom, give them a gentle shake to distribute the pollen. Remember, too, that new blossoms will be opening each day over quite a long period of time.

For more information on Gardening tips, visit Garden Pros.

Tiny Tim CherryTomato 

A wonderful mini tomato called Tiny Tim is ideal for container growing. You'll wait 45 days from setting out plants until the first fruits mature. When raising transplants from seed add 6-8 weeks.

Planting guide:

Start indoors 8 weeks before time to set in open ground. Cover thinly, then pack firmly and water. When plants are about 2 inches high, transplant to 3 inches apart in flat or pot. After danger of frost, set 2 to 3 feet apart in garden, but before doing so, harden the plants by gradually exposing them to the outdoor air for about a week. See Burgess Seed & Plant Co. to purchase the seeds.

Sweet Baby Girl Cherry Tomatoes 

Sweet Baby Girl Tomatoes are the best cherry tomato available! Dark red cherry tomatoes are not only beautiful looking, but they also taste wonderful and have a long shelf life. These were the first cherry tomatoes that I ever grew and I was amazed at how well they did. I think you will agree that the Sweet Baby Girl Tomato is the best tasting red cherry tomato. You can easily grow it indoors and get excellent results.

See Burgess Seed & Plant Co. to purchase the seeds.

Sugar Daddy Cherry Tomatoes 

Sugar Daddy cherry tomatoes have all the best qualities of a large tomato in a mini tomato! They also have an early maturity and are deliciously sweet.

You'll wait 66 days from setting out plants until the first fruits mature. When raising transplants from seed add 6-8 weeks.

Planting guide:

Start indoors 8 weeks before time to set in open ground. Cover thinly, then pack firmly and water. When plants are about 2 inches high, transplant to 3 inches apart in flat or pot. These do well in as a large container and are smashing as a floor plant. See Burgess Seed & Plant Co..

Growing Lettuce Indoors 

Lettuce is a good nibble crop and an attractive houseplant, so whether you grown enough to make a full-scale salad every week is really irrelevant.

Choose a container wide enough to allow for two or three rows, and you can wind up with a real lettuce-bed look. Sprinkle the seeds on the surface of the dampened soil. Cover very lightly with more dampened soil mix. Lettuce likes lots of water, too, more than most houseplants. Prop your lettuce beds up close to the lights while the plants are still seedlings, but lower them as the plants grow so that the tops are 10 inches or so away from the lights. Fluorescent lights do not give off much heat, but even so, lettuce likes it on the cool side, and leaves will tend to be limp is they are kept too close to the light.

You can thin out a few seedlings for eating within three weeks and then begin to take outer leaves by the following week or so. New leaves will put out for a couple of months, at which point they begin to toughen. If you are following a reseeding program, new plants will be coming along to take their place. The best lettuce varieties for indoor planting are Oak Leaf, Tom Thumb, and Buttercrunch. To purchase lettuce seeds go to Burgess Seed & Plant Co..

Growing Radishes Indoors 

While these are good sunny windowsill crops, they can also make it snuggled under the fluorescent lights with the lettuce. Sow radish seeds in the container in which they will grow. After the seedlings come up, thin them out to at least 1 inch apart, so that each radish will have room to grow.

Radishes grow quickly. They also use up more water than ordinary houseplants because they are forming the crisp, tender roots that you will be eating in three to four weeks. Plant a new seed for each radish you harvest, and you can keep a sort of radish reforestation program going indefinitely.

Radish tops make attractive greenery, producing something between a rosette and a fountain effect. Grow the variety called Cherry Belli. It's a smooth, round, bright red radish, crisp and tender, with short tops that make it a good choice for a houseplant. The radishes take twenty-four days from seed to table.

If you enjoy gardening, go to Garden Pros for all your gardening needs.

Pots for Indoor Gardening 

Duraco DC14 14-Inch Tera Cotta Planter

Amazon Price: $7.99 (as of 10/11/2008)

Self Watering Planter: 12 in - 2 pk (green color)

Amazon Price: $19.95 (as of 10/11/2008)

Pot: 6 in Dura Cotta with Saucer 10 pk

Amazon Price: $10.99 (as of 10/11/2008)

Self Watering Planter: 10 in - 2 pk (green color)

Amazon Price: $14.95 (as of 10/11/2008)

Indoor/Outdoor 3 Pot Holder

Amazon Price: $21.99 (as of 10/11/2008)

Sign the Guestbook 

minky Excellent lens and well put together. Very interesting. 5 Stars for you. Check out my garden reviews website at Argos Garden Furniture Posted October 10, 2008

CherylK We're avid gardeners but I've never grown anything indoors except some herbs - now I can see all the wonderful possibilities and I'm eager to give them a try. This is a wonderful lens! Posted September 08, 2008

clouda9 You must have known that I needed this information! Excellent and thanks for sharing! Posted August 20, 2008

Imogen_Crest What a great idea, especially for city folk. 5 stars! Posted July 21, 2008

Jean

I thought there is such a thing as male and female tomato plants.. am I crazy??? I never thought you could plant tomatoes inside for the entire time of their growth and productive time. It was good to hear that you can just shake the plant to spred the pollen and never need any bees.
Thanks a lot for the encouragement to a frustrated farmer who doesnt have a garden spot outside...

Posted July 08, 2008

 

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