If you want to make your home look nicer but don’t want to spend too much time gardening outside, indoor plants are a great alternative. They can help you quickly spruce up any room and allow you to do some gardening. An indoor garden can have a myriad of benefits, we’ll outline seven here but keep in mind that this is just scratching the surface.
1. Control the Growing Conditions
One perk of growing your plants indoors is that you can control the weather. There are no sudden drops in temperature, strong winds, or hot days- all things you don’t have to worry about when keeping your plants indoors.
Growing your plants inside means that you can protect their delicate leaves from harsh weather like blizzards or scorchers.
If you’re taking care of delicate plants at home, putting them inside your house can help to keep them healthy. Other benefits include being able to adjust the environment based on their specific needs. You select if they are close to a window, if there is a breeze or if they need more light, and so on.
2. Your Own Fresh Organic Produce
You can always use fresh vegetables if you happen to have a greenhouse or garden in the backyard. But it’s not ready yet? With indoor veggies, you can control the seasons.
If you want to eat fresh veggies all year round, stagger the times when you start a new crop. Can you grow fruit when it’s not the right season? To give them the greatest possible environment to generate fruit, use grow lights and environmental controls like heating.
Growing herbs indoors is always a useful addition to the kitchen. Create a little indoor garden near the window – grow some herbs there! They will be handy for cooking. For example, you can just snip off some chives to add to your soup or salad.
3. Extend the Growing Season
If you like taking care of your plants outdoors, there are a lot of benefits to growing them indoors. You can start flowering bulbs or seedlings early indoors. You can set them off indoors about 6 weeks before the last frost.
When your seedlings are a little bigger you can prepare them for going outdoors by hardening them off. This means putting them outside gradually for increasing periods. You can even place them in a shaded area near your house or on your patio for added protection against the elements.
After the spring growth is finished and perhaps harvest, you may want to keep your plant. You could bring it back inside to continue growing throughout the summer if you wish. Make sure you give the plant time to adjust to being in a warmer house again by gradually increasing the time indoors until it is indoors all of the time.
4. Purifying Our Air
Plants produce energy by way of photosynthesis; they use carbon dioxide and water to create glucose. They also produce oxygen as a side effect.
Plants breathe in carbon dioxide and exhale oxygen, so you can use them at home as if they were air filters.
Some air-purifying plants are good at removing airborne pollutants, dust, and germs. English ivy, snake plants, spider plants and chrysanthemums are a few examples of these.
5. Appealing Indoor Decoration
A single piece of artwork or a garden full of plants can instantly transform an area. With a leafy plant or a stunning bloom, you can make any room feel more cheery.
Add some life to your interior design by including a cactus garden or flower window in the room. They’re both full of decoration and are easy to take care of as well. But if you want more decoration without taking up too much space, succulents are a good choice.
6. Learning About Plants
Gardening can be a lot of hard work. There are always lots of tasks to do. Gardeners must water plants, make sure they get enough light and alter the climate as needed. Kids might enjoy helping to grow an indoor garden if given responsibility for it. It also teaches children to take responsibility.
It may also be used by children to learn more about plant biology, life cycles, and sustainable agriculture. There is a range of gardening kits on the market designed specifically to help kids learn while they grow and take care of their plants.
7. Finding the Joy
Indoor plants need us to take care of them and caring for them might help us develop further compassion. You might have heard that plants can respond positively to interactions with humans. Try talking to your plant next time you’re feeling stressed and see if it helps as well.
Pruning, watering, repotting, and other actions involved with maintaining your garden may be soothing and therapeutic.
Plants in your house can help you feel less stressed and depressed while also providing a sense of companionship. Gardening can be an active past time and it can help you to get in shape and improve your mental health, according to some medical professionals.
Overall, indoor gardening has been shown to have many benefits including air purification, and decoration, it can also be educational. On top of this, some say it is therapeutic and can give you the feeling that you aren’t alone. Why not give it a try and find out some of these benefits for yourself?