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    Indoor Gardening: 11 Lessons on How to Grow Exotic Fruits, Vegetables, and Herbs in Your Home
    Indoor Gardening: 11 Lessons on How to Grow Exotic Fruits, Vegetables, and Herbs in Your Home
    Indoor Gardening: 11 Lessons on How to Grow Exotic Fruits, Vegetables, and Herbs in Your Home
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    Indoor Gardening: 11 Lessons on How to Grow Exotic Fruits, Vegetables, and Herbs in Your Home

    By Christine Wolfe

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    Have you wanted fresh, delicious fruits outside of their regular growing season and been forced to deal with the over-priced, air-lifted options at the supermarket? 

    You’re not alone. Many people have seen the revolution in grow your own produce and started to look into this fun and potentially profitable hobby.

    Never again will you have to settle for just okay out of season fruits, vegetables and herbs. Instead, you’ll have access to a cornucopia of delicious, nutritious and healthful options, straight from the grow your own garden in your home.
    Growing your own fruits and vegetables helps make you more independent. Instead of relying on the supply chains of multi-national companies who are concerned more with efficiency than quality, you can trust your own ability to produce great tasting food, without chemical fertilizers or pesticides, genetically modified seeds and other harmful products. It’s about your choices.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJVzon Studio
    Release dateMar 7, 2017
    ISBN9781386395683
    Indoor Gardening: 11 Lessons on How to Grow Exotic Fruits, Vegetables, and Herbs in Your Home

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      Indoor Gardening - Christine Wolfe

      Introduction

      A revolution has begun. In America’s agrarian past, the nation relied on family farmers to produce crops that fed millions. As corporations became engaged in agri-business, the focus shifted from the small family farmer who tilled the land, to massive multinationals who paid low prices for grains, beans and other agricultural products. With that shift came the rise of super ultra mega markets, and the benefits of freshness and quality were sacrificed in favor of synergistic efficiencies and other corporate goals.

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      In all of that we lost something.

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      Thank you for downloading Indoor Gardening: 30 Lessons on How to Grow Exotic Fruits, Vegetables and Herbs at Your Home. This detailed guidebook will explore several topics related to indoor gardening and provide you with a means to provide for yourself and your family the freshest and highest quality fruits, vegetables and herbs. But it’s more than just that. This book is about reconnecting with what we lost as the big corporations took over the management of farming and agriculture in America.

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      What we lost most of all was the connection with the earth and the responsibility that comes with good stewardship of the land. I recall the pride my grandfather took when he grew tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers and even grapes that found their way to our table. He would cultivate the plants outside, but when they were seedlings, they grew in his basement under fluorescent lamps. He controlled for soil quality, proper water amounts and helped nurture those plants when they were mere seedlings. This was his hobby in retirement, but he approached it with such a passion that it became a way of life that defined his later years.

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      What he understood those years ago, that I have come to understand as I have grown, is that when we grow food, we provide for ourselves. On many different levels this is an amazing thing. No act of independence can rival the feelings inspired by taking care of one’s own needs. That’s what makes indoor gardening a revolution. What grew out of the illegal indoor grow houses for contraband plants, has developed into a way for individuals to do more to take care of their own needs.

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      More than that, it allows us to appreciate what we can do with a little ingenuity and hard work. No pursuit requires an appreciation of delayed gratification, like gardening. As an added bonus, indoor gardening is driven by technological advances and improvements. Better lighting due to advances in LEDs allow for plants to mature and develop inside. Better understanding of soil quality allows us to replicate ideal ground conditions for each plant. This enables us greater biodiversity of the different plants that can be grown and better options for our own sustenance. Additionally, improved technology allows for different types of gardening ventures. A recent example was a company that builds and markets grow sheds complete with lighting and irrigation. They use shipping containers for the sheds. With them, owners can grow multiple crops and renew those crops weekly, monthly or whenever the harvest has been completed.

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      That combination of technology and independence is uniquely American. As is the idea of gardening for oneself. The beauty of our modern era is how we can combine those and maximize another American trait, profiting from our labors. The benefit of indoor gardening is that we can provide remarkably fresh produce for purchase at any time of the year. In doing so, individuals can now short circuit the supply chains of the super ultra mega market chains and deliver fresher, higher quality products at a more affordable price.

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      This revolution may have been spawned by a prohibited cash crop, whose legality is an on-going battle, but it has spread to other uses that threaten to disrupt the modern means of food supply. We need no longer rely on someone else. And in declaring our independence from the status quo, we take control of our lives and future in a way that wasn’t available to our parents or other previous generations.

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      Additionally, dieticians and nutritional experts tell us all the time that eating locally sourced foods is better for our health and diet. Now you can source food from the most local source possible, yourself. In doing so, you ensure the freshest and most healthful foods are on your table. Produce products have a rapid spoilage rate. While most grocery stores maintain certain quality levels, there is no picked on dating with the fruits and vegetables we buy. As a result, we have literally no idea how long the food we are buying has been off the vine.

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      Let’s take a step forward and move away from trusting other people with the food we eat.

      Chapter 1 – Indoor Gardening Overview

      Why garden indoors?

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      For those who dwell in apartments, the question has a self-evident answer. Without property, one can have no tillable outdoor land on which one can grow plants or trees. And that necessitates the cultivation of trees and plants inside the confines of a home or greenhouse. Most apartment dwellers do not have the option of a greenhouse attached to their home. So for them it is make use of indoor space. But they are not alone. Many other individuals who might want to spend time growing and cultivating food do not have the option to do it outdoors.

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      The average homestead in suburban or even exurban areas is shrinking. In my community, the average home has a relatively small plot of land around it. Oftentimes it is just enough that the homes do not abut each other, and the owners to walk along the edge of the home without trespassing into the other’s property. That confined space is inadequate to grow much of anything. As a result, plenty of home owners can also see ample reasons to use the excess space inside their homes to set up an indoor garden.

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      Of course, some climates are inhospitable to cultivation of plants or trees. They are either two wet and not sunny enough or too dry and arid for plants to grow without continuous attention. Those environments can frustrate even the most skilled part-time gardener, who wants merely to enjoy the literal fruits of their labors.

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      Another contributing factor is soil quality. Some ground is too alkaline to support

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