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an early summer morning.

Watering for your indoor garden should be done regularly, try for daily if you can. Due to the amount of watering, and maybe if this is a family enterprise where the kids are helping, I would recommend putting plastic down under your plants. By the by, the little ones do love tending the plants. Obtaining a gallon or two sized sprayer is quite handy for this. They are usually fertilizer of chemical sprayers that are available at your hardware store. But don't believe the labeling. They are fine for watering assuming that's all you put in it. If you want to get away from the watering labour, you could potentially set up a cistern equipped with a spout that sends the water into a series of silicon tubes. Where the tube meets with the plant pot perforate it so that it makes a mini soaker, and then send the rest of the tube on to the next plant pot, and repeat perforations. In this way you can unsure a continuous feed of water with only one tube. Do remember to refill the cistern once or twice a week.

Special fertilizers tend to be unnecessary, I find. Your plants should do okay on a minimum of chemicals. If you have fish this is perfect. Old water from your fish tank will make plants very happy. With tomatoes, however, be wary of providing too much nitrogen. This will make them very leafy, but will result in low fruit yields. Calcium on the other hand is vital for fruit growth in tomatoes, so add a bit of dolomite in the soil when you plant them, or crushed egg shells.

If all this in not to your tastes at first, try it on a small scale. If you have some larger tropicals its fun just to throw some herb seeds into the surface soil. Arugulla or some Purple Basil just ringing the surface of your Ficus pot can look very nice, and it can be used in your cooking as well. Or start by trying some winter sprouts. Or growing the random thing; you got some Tangerine seeds from some that you just ate, try putting them in a pot. Or go ahead and sprout some Ginger. Sprout some Ginger you say! Stay tuned I'll tell you all about it!

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