For another pre-season task, let’s discuss indoor grow rooms! You might not think of it this way, but using an indoor grow room is fundamentally the practice of season extension! An invaluable thing in northern growing!
Some people probably have an internal concept of what a grow room is and might even think that is “way too complicated.” But, a growing space can simply be a table with some lights over it. Or some part of a room in your house that you don’t really use well. We’re simply trying to achieve conditions that work well for growing plants, it doesn’t have to be super complicated.
The biggest reason we grow our seedlings indoors is because it gives us flexibility to grow any kind of plant. While techniques like winter sowing do work to raise seedlings, these methods also exclude a ton of potential plant types from being grown that way. Things like onions, peppers, tomatoes and so forth will simply be out of reach for us far northerners without the indoor grow room!
This season, we *finally* wrote up an article on designing and building indoor growing spaces. This has been a topic so integral to our seed raising process, it’s truly an oversight that we didn’t have something all these years. You’ll find that new article down in the comments!
We really try to focus on the “flexible” aspect of growing spaces. You’ll see us use more permanent infrastructure like growing tents in the coming months, but it’s important for us to communicate that this isn’t the “only” way to get the job done. At the core, plants need soil, water, light, oxygen and nutrients. Let’s not overcomplicate it past that!
I know it’s strange talking about gardening and growing in February, especially when there’s still plenty of snow and cold temperatures afoot! But, we’re looking at about three weeks to when we kick off our very earliest of seed sows! It’s coming very soon and our early season content is aimed at making sure you’re prepared for it!
Designing & Building An Indoor Growing Space For Growing Vegetables
