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Preparing the Garden Room
This section is primarily about working with aluminum metalized boPET, more commonly known as Mylar. This is a common product that is available in rolls. It’s great for this purpose because it reflects light, is waterproof, and is fire retardant. One of its commercial applications is as an insulating home wrap. For these reasons you…
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Selecting the Garden Room
There are a few considerations about the space you plan to use that I would like for you to consider. If you are already very confident in the placement of your garden room, you can skip to the next section. Electricity Perhaps most obviously, the room must have electrical outlets in order to plug in the lights.…
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Controlling Moisture In Your Garden Room
This page is mostly cautionary. It is about potential issues you may have with having too high of a level of humidity in your home. If you are confident that you already understand about mold and other issues, you may skip to the next page. Water can be a major issue in your home. You do not…
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Understanding Light Colors
This page will teach you how to understand the terminology used to describe the light color that comes from LED lamps. Unlike the other pages on this site, some of this content might be little difficult. Fortunately for you, gardener, the manufacturer has probably put a friendly label on lamp or box, saying something like…
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Why Create a Garden in Your Spare Room?
This page provides an overview of why you might choose to make a garden room in your home. If you are already gardening indoors, or otherwise know you want an indoor garden you can skip to the next page. If you are not already gardening indoors, I recommend that you browse through all the pages…
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Lighting
You read a brief overview of the history of lighting technologies as they relate to growing vegetables at home under lights. While other lighting technologies are available, except for in specialized cases, like where penetrating foliage is required, it is hard to see why technologies other than LEDs would be used now. The prices are…
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The Garden Room Needs a Fan
I’ve learned the hard way that your indoor garden room needs a fan. I’ve gardened indoors for some time and thought I knew what I was doing, but I found out that I definitely missed something in my planning when relocating my garden room. My old garden room, which is now the dining area again,…
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Red Wigglers
Red Wigglers (Eisenia fetida) are composting worms, and we are going to use them to simplify feeding our plants without having to buy a lot of supplements. They’re obviously reddish and they flail around blindly when disturbed. These little guys have been deliberately used in composting for centuries, and unintentionally, in Europe where they are…
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The Garden Tower Project 2 Salad Tower
This is the worm containment solution that I prefer today. It is a combination worm bin and planter and it is easier to use than a regular worm bin. I have gone all out on this unit, buying the full package with the wheels, the lights, and the extra two rings because it is the…
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Are You Really Up For This?
Indoor gardening under lights isn’t difficult, but it also isn’t nothing. I have placed this chapter after those on water and earthworms because these are the two things most likely to dissuade you from going forward with this. Without a gardener to garden it, none of this will work. I want you to fully understand…