Category: A Garden In Your Spare Room

  • Beans of death, no mercy for garden pests

    Every garden room should have some beans. Bush beans can be grown in 10″ pots and they don’t need a lot of fertilizer. It is tough to get them enough light so they would produce as heavily as they would under the full sun, but they have another advantage. Beans trap small flying insects. Their…

  • Love your greens, harvest from the rear for growth

    This article is about selecting the greens you choose to harvest from your indoor garden, in order to eat from it regularly and still allow your plants to grow. It’s all about shade, really. Both whether or not a leaf is shaded, or whether or not a leaf is shading another plant. First, you need…

  • What’s that white stuff? Fungus and mold in your container garden

    Mycelium growing in a container It’s a Balance It is very normal for their to be some fungal activity in your potting soil. The avoidance of fungal spores is a practical impossibility. Because your growing media must, of course, be watered for your vegetables, you are also watering it for fungal spores. Fungi in your…