Indoor Container Gardening
2008 is under way and in the Okanagan we’re enjoying everything about January — the snow, the crisp air, as well as the new beginnings that this time of year signals.
At this time of year, our gardening is focused on indoor plants. Caring for houseplants makes for a great hobby during the long winter months. Many gardeners refuse to twiddle their green thumbs when winter keeps them indoors. Along with keeping gardeners busy, indoor plants brighten the home by providing a cheerful sight for those grey and dreary winter days.
Indoor plants are also an important part of decor in our homes and offices. There is nothing more lovely and cheery than a room filled with beautiful green plants.
A more important reason plants are being brought indoors today, are to do with health. We spend a lot of our time indoors and we don’t get enough “fresh air”. We all breath in air taking in oxygen and breathing out carbon dioxide and with living in airtight houses, especially in the winter, we create pollution.
Plants operate differently, although they also breathe , they absorb carbon dioxide, mostly during the day, and release oxygen. One potted plant per 100 square feet will clean the air in an average home or office.
With house plants you have beauty and clean air. Give indoor gardening a try and breath easier.
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Do you know if container gardening lowers your carbon footprint? Raises it? Do you know any sites that account for that when they give you your carbon footprint?
Does anybody know about this site ( http://www.earthlab.com ) ? I have seen other environmental sites with carbon calculators like yahoo and tree huggers, but I am wondering what the deal with earthlab.com is? I saw they also published a list last month of the top ten greenest cities ( http://www.efficientenergy.org/Top-Ten-Green-Cities-in-the-United-States ). Does anyone know if this site is better than the others? Fill me in!
I took their carbon foot print test and it was pretty interesting, they said that I put out 4.5 tons of carbon, does anyone know about any other tests?
Questions: Do the indoor plants have to be actively growing to improve the clean air filtering system?
As well, I have two geraniums that are growing quite nicely. When is a good time to take cuttings and should I root them in soil or water?
Yes, plants have to be actively growing. There are a few that show better abilities of absorbing chemicals, weeping fig, bamboo palm, spider plant, rubber plant, to name a few of them. February is a good time to take cuttings from your geraniums and I root mine in soil.
My wife and I are eager for spring so we can start our backyard garden. This will be first for us as we have not had a property large enough to have much of a garden so we mostly grew flowers.
It’s still the middle of winter here and the snow is pretty deep but the desire to get started is really burning so I thought we might start an indoor herb garden.
I do keep plants in the house and love them but my wife has no interest in indoor plants at all.
We have been married for 25 years and in all that time she has had one plant and I am the one that takes care of it.
I am the one with the green thumb so far but my wife Jenny is eager to learn the ropes so she has one as well.