How to Turn Your Home into an Indoor Garden? | Better HouseKeeper

If you have a flair for nature and its humble offerings, check out this article to know how you can nurture this beauty in your house. 

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Whether you are a nature lover or not, we all need oxygen to survive. In the current circumstances, we are all victimized by the vicious COVID-19 virus, which makes house planting the next big trend. Sitting captive in the house not only deprives us of morning air and a nice jog to kick-start our day, but it has also left us with an enormous amount of free time. So let’s use it to our advantage and grow your own plants to reap numerous benefits.

How to Choose the Plants for Your Home?

What are the first three qualities that come to your mind when you think of houseplants? Let me tell you my answer – less sunlight, less watering, and low maintenance. Nobody loves the duties as well as the problems that come with house planting. That includes even nature lovers like me who would rather live in a treehouse in a remote deep forest than a perfectly air-conditioned and highly technological apartment. So, it’s preferable to choose the plants that meet the criteria that I just mentioned. If you want to appreciate every nuance of nature’s beauty, you might be thinking about the shades and colors that different flowers bring in. For people who have a flair for the dramatic, I suggest going with all the flowers ranging from the violets to the reds. That would transform your entire house into heaven.

For violets, cascading plants come to my mind like no other. The Aubrieta Royal Violet flowers will completely change the outlook of your house. It can grow over walls and can also withstand low amounts of sunlight. However, the flowers bloom best when the sun is at its brightest and when they are growing in well-drained soil. If you do not have the space to fill your house with flowers but want something for your desktop table, worry not! Wandering jews will do the job for you. Check out this page for some stunning multicolored houseplants that are enough to put you in a trance.

The Health Benefits of Houseplants

Indoor plants not only have the charisma to make your house glamorous, but they also have multiple health benefits. Their no-brainer property is that they absorb carbon dioxide from the room and fill the place with oxygen. Hence you breathe fresh air for a longer time. If that is your main concern, Syngonium, Spider plant, Money plant, Wandering jew, Purpleheart Anthurium, Areca palm, Dieffenbachia, and Cacti are great choices for you.

Steps to Add Plants to Your House

Gear Up

Feeling inspired yet? If yes, your first job is to gear up for your upcoming garden. The basic instruments for gardening are a small gardening trowel, a watering can, gardening gloves, and so on. Before buying any of these, you can go to greeneryguide.com to get the full details of each of these.

How to Prepare the Soil?

The next step is to prepare the soil. Whether you can tolerate the smell of fertilizers or not, you must admit that it is the main food for all plants. Luckily, the ingredients for one of the best fertilizers are very inexpensive. In fact, they are at your home right now; you just have to assemble them. From now on, collect all of your plastic waste and organic waste, such as fruits and vegetable peelings, in separate containers.

Take a large container and make a few holes all over the container to allow the air to enter. Place a layer of soil at the bottom of the container. Mix your organic waste with some dried organic matter, such as dry leaves or wood. Now put this mixture over the layer of the soil. Cover this with some plastic wrap to trap the heat and moisture inside. Spray some water over the mixture after every few days until your fertilizer is ready.

When your fertilizer is ready, it’s time to mix your soil with the fertilizer. Once you are done with that, let it sit for a few days, and then you are good to plants the seeds or a small cutting of your desired plant. Remember, you need to keep adding the fertilizer after every 2-3 weeks to keep the soil fertile. The above method to prepare the soil works wonders if you want to plant some vegetation in your backyard. What a nice way to cut off your monthly expenses and stay healthy at the same time!

Pest Control and Cleaning

Now that you are on the road to a beautiful nature-inspired home, it’s time for the not-so-pleasant part, which is to keep it nice and tidy and chase away the bothersome bugs. The moment you start this planting journey, you will notice a gigantic increase in pests in your house, so be prepared for it by making some neem solution. Mix two tablespoons of neem oil with two to three teaspoons of insecticidal soap and pour them in one gallon of water. Spray the solution on the plants and pour some on the soil to eliminate any laid pest eggs.

For the tidying up part, be ready to double your cleaning time. After all, hobbies do take effort, but the results make it worth it. The best advice would be to consider your space for the plantation. Decorate the whole area with plants, but don’t overdo it. Vertical gardens provide a lot more room if you are short on gardening space. Keep a separate cleaning supply for that room so that you don’t make your whole house messy while doing it. Lastly, don’t procrastinate. It can be overwhelming, but piling it up won’t make it any better, and remember that you are doing this to add natural beauty to your place. You can also add some fairy lights to take your game to the next level. Check this out if you want to know more about renovation using plants.

There you go, guys! I hope you got some ideas about house planting to get you started. I urge you to follow through these steps to make a beautiful home, give back to the environment, and leave your neighbors in absolute awe.