How To Set Up An Indoor Garden, Part Four
Patti works with recycled containers in the indoor garden.
Step 1: It isn't expensive.
Starting your own indoor garden doesn't have to be expensive. A really fun thing to do is to go around your house and look for normal household items that you would normally throw away, and reuse them as seed starters. I have here a collection of stuff that I found around my house-- an old cookie container, a deli container, the bottom of a soda bottle, the bottom of a water bottle, the obligatory coffee can, an old plastic cup, and two planters that I'm gonna reuse.
Step 2: Use rabbit pellets
The soil that I have here is a really good organic potting soil, mixed in with some peat moss and some seed starter soil, and I've spruced it up with rabbit pellets. Now the really good thing about using rabbit pellets as your fertilizer is that you don't have to compost rabbit pellets. They can be used right away-- it's not a fertilizer that's going to burn your roots.
I love using this tub, because it prevents me from getting dirt all over the place. All I have to do is, any container I wanna fill, I put in this tub, fill it, and if anything spills out it falls right back into the tub.
Step 3: Planting your seeds
And now for the fun part: planting your seeds. I've got a variety of seeds that I'm gonna plant. This is a Heritage seed called Big Boston, and it's lettuce. So this is Big Boston lettuce, and after I plant all my containers I'm going to water them all. I put this aside so that I can remember that I've already planted it. The other coffee can here-- I'll put in a little more dirt, and I'm gonna plant a few basil seeds.
Step 4: Storing.
Okay, so now I've planted all of my reusable containers with amazing vegetables and flowers and herbs. I'm gonna water everything and I'm gonna place it on my new shelving unit.
