Necessity is known to be the mother of invention, which can be seen especially among people who set up a greenhouse in their apartment. No front garden, not even a balcony and yet you don't have to completely miss out on a portion of fresh vegetables or the most important culinary herbs.
How to set up a greenhouse in the apartment?
A greenhouse in the home allows you to grow vegetables and herbs on the windowsill, vertical wall gardens or in mini fruit trees. Make sure there is enough light, ventilation and, if necessary, shade for optimal conditions and he althy plants.
Even in a city apartment, no one necessarily has to go without fresh, home-grown vegetables. We have already reported on indoor greenhouses, which have become real trend furniture over the years. The yields are rather modest in terms of quantity, butfresh greenery in the living area is always good, as many scientific studies have shown. Indoors, plants not only improve humidity levels, they also reduce the concentration of dust and other pollutants in the air we breathe. A greenhouse in the apartment has the advantage that it usually does not require complex air conditioning.
Greenhouse effect on the windowsill
There are plenty of creative ideas on how to get a few home-grown vitamin donors in a prefabricated building.
- Tomato plants are initially grown from home-grown seeds in small mini greenhouses on the windowsill. The young plants are then moved into pots and grow up a light-flooded wall in the living room.
- For parsley and many other culinary herbs, a standard flower box is sufficient, which is filled with amixture of garden soil, compost and sand and placed on the windowsill.
- Vertical wall gardening, in the style of a living picture, would be another variation that has become an architectural trend. Vertically growing plants can be used to cover entire room walls. Beans, peas and even decorative pumpkins with small fruits are ideal for this. Basically all you need is a trellis, lots of light and at least one busy waterer in the family.
Fruit trees instead of greenhouse
Mini fruit trees, which are now offered by many garden shops, are also suitable as a replacement for a greenhouse in the apartment. Dwarf fruit grows in the smallest of spaces; sometimes a bucket measuringone square meter in size The latest varieties only grow up to one meter high. The trees delight in spring with wonderful flowers, at harvest time with delicious fruit yields and for many weeks in between with their pleasantly fresh scent of summer. In addition to the dwarf apple varieties, the cherries, nectarines and peaches in mini format have surprisingly good growth properties. Particularly important: Your greenhouse in the apartment should be placed in a consistently sunny and not too warm room.
Tip
In strong sunlight, plants standing directly at the window can easily be damaged due to the greenhouse effect. Appropriate ventilation or darkening, for example through a tilted window or shading with an interior roller blind, is particularly recommended for culinary herbs.
