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Have some vegetables herbs or small as tomatoes or peppers, despite living in a city apartment, it is possible. From the windowsill, a small balcony, a terrace in the kitchen or a piece of wall, all can be adapted to accommodate your mini-garden center.

Know everything that we know to get down to work and create a space to grow our own food, a relaxing task and of course very gratifying:

• The first thing you need is light, potting soil . Note that are needed from 5 to 6 hours of direct sunlight to grow vegetables like tomatoes or peas. If the venue is less natural light, then you should opt for green leafy vegetables like spinach, beets, cabbage, etc.
• An urban garden , thanks to its compact dimensions easier to water and care, and to prevent pests. Ideally, for planting the pots of clay or plastic (the material to be lighter, less damaging to the floor.) If you have a large terrace or roof, you can place a table of crop, are very comfortable because it forces you to bend down to tend the plants.

• The choice of the land plays an important role in the task of creating your own little urban garden. If you opt for organic farming , use a mixture of decaying organic matter (if you’re willing to take the downside of bad odors) and an organic substrate, such as coconut fiber. Normal crop land you can buy at any nursery or large garden area.
• When you go to plant, ask yourself which is what you and your family like to eat, so you’ll save by using your natural products instead of buying.
• Given the choice of plant seeds or buy plants , you count that are recommended for early beans, cucumber, celery, peas, leeks, Swiss chard, spinach, lettuce and carrots. While you can buy the plant in specialized centers, if you just want to tomatoes, peppers and herbs .

• The pot size must also be based on the vegetable. For example, in small indoor pots are good herbs (thyme, basil, parsley, etc.), Yes, put in a bright place, on the outside and medium-sized pot grown radishes, spinach, chilies, carrots and cherry tomatoes and boxes, large outdoor pots, carrots, lettuce, drinking, chard, etc.
• Once you’ve finished it’s time for irrigation . Lee well on the seed, or ask at the nursery where you bought the plant about the features. Just you wait and in a few months at home have the ingredients for your salads and vegetable puree.

The lamps give the plants a light complementary to the natural light is often helpful. To complement the natural light we can use one of the following options:

* Incandescent: These are the bulbs. Produce light (red and infrared) by phenomena filament filament, heated by the passage of electrical current. A lot of heat and consume large amounts of electricity, so its performance is very low. They can also burn plants if placed too close.

System is cheaper, but not recommended. If you have no choice, at least attempt to use bulbs that are more effective because it focused beams of light by reflectors.

Lamps * Mercury Vapor (MV) produce light (white, blue and green) by passing electric current through mercury hot gases at high pressure.

They are used during the plant growth because of its high emission in the blue spectrum, but are poor in the red zone so not promote flowering. They are very efficient in power consumption.

* Mixed Lamps (incandescent and mercury vapor): Combination of a mercury vapor lamp under high pressure with an incandescent lamp.

This will get the red radiation necessary for the stimulation of flowering indoor plants. The problem is the high cost of use, the greatly reduced light output compared to the mercury vapor lamps.

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