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Jimi, if you could enjoy fresh healthy greens that you personally grew in only 14 days, what would be your response? What if you were told that this was an option whether you were an established gardener or never touched a seed in your life?
Are you wondering how?
By growing microgreens!
Download Your FREE Copy of “6 Easy-to-Grow Microgreens”
Microgreens are the young versions of your favorite veggies.
This FREE guide provides you with the in’s and out’s on six easy-to-grow microgreens. However, when asked which is the best microgreen to grow to begin your microgreen journey, GYOV Garden Instructor and Commercial Microgreen Grower Crystal Meserole shares that radish is her choice! Her reasoning is two-fold.
1. Radish is the fastest growing microgreen, growing usually in 5-6 days in the summer and 8-9 days in the winter (depending on your specific temperatures), thus allowing you the opportunity to do multiple tests and experiments in the same amount of time that it normally takes other microgreens to grow a single crop.
2. Radish is forgiving, making it a good teacher to teach the importance and understanding of timing and the need to be attentive when growing microgreens. It’s forgiveness allows you to learn lessons without losing crop after crop.
The other five microgreens covered by the guide are amaranth, broccoli, kale, mustard, and sunflower.
What’s so special about microgreens?
They are easy, fast, can be grown indoors or out, AND pack some of the highest nutritional punch in the world!
Microgreens are perfect for beginners and seasoned gardeners alike. You can grow your own microgreens even if you think you have a “brown thumb!”
With this guide, you’ll learn what you need to start growing your own microgreens today! You’ll also receive tips on how to care for each one of these six easy-to-grow microgreens.
If you’ve thought about gardening but didn’t think you had the space, the time, or the climate to do it, this FREE guide is your answer!
Grab Your FREE Guide “6 Easy-to-Grow Microgreens List”
Once you’ve decided, hit reply and let us know which microgreens you’ll be growing! Or better yet—share in our Facebook Garden Community. We love hearing how you’re doing in your gardening adventure!
Watch your email for more microgreens goodness coming your way tomorrow!
Until we beet again!
Grow Your Own Vegetables Team
Are you wondering how?
By growing microgreens!
Download Your FREE Copy of “6 Easy-to-Grow Microgreens” Microgreens are the young versions of your favorite veggies.
This FREE guide provides you with the in’s and out’s on six easy-to-grow microgreens. However, when asked which is the best microgreen to grow to begin your microgreen journey, GYOV Garden Instructor and Commercial Microgreen Grower Crystal Meserole shares that radish is her choice! Her reasoning is two-fold.
2. Radish is forgiving, making it a good teacher to teach the importance and understanding of timing and the need to be attentive when growing microgreens. It’s forgiveness allows you to learn lessons without losing crop after crop.
The other five microgreens covered by the guide are amaranth, broccoli, kale, mustard, and sunflower.
What’s so special about microgreens?
They are easy, fast, can be grown indoors or out, AND pack some of the highest nutritional punch in the world!
Microgreens are perfect for beginners and seasoned gardeners alike. You can grow your own microgreens even if you think you have a “brown thumb!”
With this guide, you’ll learn what you need to start growing your own microgreens today! You’ll also receive tips on how to care for each one of these six easy-to-grow microgreens.
If you’ve thought about gardening but didn’t think you had the space, the time, or the climate to do it, this FREE guide is your answer!
Grab Your FREE Guide “6 Easy-to-Grow Microgreens List” Once you’ve decided, hit reply and let us know which microgreens you’ll be growing! Or better yet—share in our Facebook Garden Community. We love hearing how you’re doing in your gardening adventure!
Watch your email for more microgreens goodness coming your way tomorrow!
Until we beet again!
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plant a polititianJimi, if you could enjoy fresh healthy greens that you personally grew in only 14 days, what would be your response? What if you were told that this was an option whether you were an established gardener or never touched a seed in your life?
Are you wondering how?
By growing microgreens!
Microgreens are the young versions of your favorite veggies.
This FREE guide provides you with the in’s and out’s on six easy-to-grow microgreens. However, when asked which is the best microgreen to grow to begin your microgreen journey, GYOV Garden Instructor and Commercial Microgreen Grower Crystal Meserole shares that radish is her choice! Her reasoning is two-fold.
1. Radish is the fastest growing microgreen, growing usually in 5-6 days in the summer and 8-9 days in the winter (depending on your specific temperatures), thus allowing you the opportunity to do multiple tests and experiments in the same amount of time that it normally takes other microgreens to grow a single crop.
2. Radish is forgiving, making it a good teacher to teach the importance and understanding of timing and the need to be attentive when growing microgreens. It’s forgiveness allows you to learn lessons without losing crop after crop.
The other five microgreens covered by the guide are amaranth, broccoli, kale, mustard, and sunflower.
What’s so special about microgreens?
They are easy, fast, can be grown indoors or out, AND pack some of the highest nutritional punch in the world!
Microgreens are perfect for beginners and seasoned gardeners alike. You can grow your own microgreens even if you think you have a “brown thumb!”
With this guide, you’ll learn what you need to start growing your own microgreens today! You’ll also receive tips on how to care for each one of these six easy-to-grow microgreens.
If you’ve thought about gardening but didn’t think you had the space, the time, or the climate to do it, this FREE guide is your answer!
Once you’ve decided, hit reply and let us know which microgreens you’ll be growing! Or better yet—share in our Facebook Garden Community. We love hearing how you’re doing in your gardening adventure!
Watch your email for more microgreens goodness coming your way tomorrow!
Until we beet again!
Hey they do grow that fast and are very healthy for you, give em a try, easy to grow
ive been growing and eating radish for years buddy
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I got a new toy... A GreenStalk vertical planter. I'll get it filled up and put together tomorrow.
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My GrowStalk being filled with soil and assembled:
Halfway there:
All done, just need to get some seeds started. That's a project for tomorrow or maybe Sunday.
Halfway there:
All done, just need to get some seeds started. That's a project for tomorrow or maybe Sunday.
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Planted radishes, lettuce, chives, parsley, Swiss chard, and carrots today. Now I wait for them to germinate.
well done. happy munching
In my humble opinion, it’s the #1 thing we can do to change our world for the better.
So the resources I bring you today are about making a positive impact on the world through farming, reducing waste, and providing some ideas for homegrown holiday gifts.
Article: We Need to STOP Recycling (This one is a game changer. Do you think it’s controversial? Good!)
Article: Zero Waste Kit (this DIY project makes a good holiday gift for your environmentally conscious loved ones)
So the resources I bring you today are about making a positive impact on the world through farming, reducing waste, and providing some ideas for homegrown holiday gifts.
Article: We Need to STOP Recycling (This one is a game changer. Do you think it’s controversial? Good!)
Article: Zero Waste Kit (this DIY project makes a good holiday gift for your environmentally conscious loved ones)
just like the natives in the jungle do. so who is the smartest? us,,,who take tablets that do nothing, or primatives who live longer than us?
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Don’t you love this time of year? Getting that extra time with your family and friends? Our friends at Food Revolution are also enjoying the togetherness of the season by coming together to share a FREE Food for Health Masterclass with the Grow Your Own Vegetables audience. Father-son-duo, John and Ocean Robbins, are unveiling powerful strategies that can significantly transform your life—all backed by science—and all for FREE but only for a limited time! 
What you’ll discover in this FREE 80-minute Masterclass:  What dangerous food myths to stop buying into right now How to implement ten mighty plant-powered breakthroughs easily Why taking control of your health matters How what we eat—and what we don’t eat—can help save the planet Why John Robbins walked away from inheriting Baskin-Robbins to become one of the most powerful spokespersons in the world for a sane, ethical, and sustainable futurePrepare to make food the foundation of YOUR health with this FREE Masterclass. Click HERE to Register Today Here is what Actor and Activist Woody Harrelson has to say about Ocean’s father, John: “A person who leads me to eat in a way that cultivates spiritual awareness is my kind of prophet…I have deep and abiding respect for John Robbins.” Nothing beets togetherness so join in on John and Ocean’s togetherness! Grow Your Own Vegetables Team PS—Join tens of thousands on this enlightening journey to unearth the life-changing powers of informed food choices. Reserve your FREE spot NOW. |
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DIY Compost: Simple Steps to Make ‘Black Gold’ at Home
DIY compost is super simple to create, as long as you add the right ingredients. Be sure to use the proper mix of greens, browns and water to celebrate World Soil Day.
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DIY compost is super simple to create, as long as you add the right ingredients. Be sure to use the proper mix of greens, browns and water to celebrate World Soil Day.
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Is growing food a magical experience for you, Jimi?
When you’re eating healthy, you are usually happier. Nothing is better than the taste of fresh vegetables from the garden in the spring and summer.
Imagine that same feeling all winter long, too! Even better—imagine enjoying the food you love in the winter AND watching the seeds sprout to life.
Don’t miss out on fresh greens all winter when you could be growing them NOW...even if it’s snowing outside!
Learn about the 5-Day Fantastical Winter Garden Adventure
The FREE 5-Day Fantastical Winter Garden Adventure focuses on how your mindset affects not only you but also your garden.
Each day of the event, Master Garden Instructor Stacey Murphy will share how to create a successful winter gardening mindset using themes from her favorite movies.
Day 1: Supercalifragilistic Seeds: The 5 things that can kill your magic garden before it starts
Day 2: Wonderful Water: The magic of water and the importance of a positive mindset
Day 3: Magic Micro-Heroes: Everything in the soil that is working for you and your garden
Day 4: Be-You-Tiful You: How to nurture yourself and your garden
Day 5: Loopty-Loos: Your connection with nature and how to continue the winter gardening adventure
Start 5-Day Fantastical Winter Garden Adventure Here
When you have a magical mindset and the tools that you need to succeed, your winter garden falls into place without confusion, frustration, and overwhelm.
PLUS with the 5-Day Fantastical Winter Garden Adventure, you receive a Fantastical Winter Garden Notebook to download and have with you every step of the way.
Think of your Fantastical Winter Garden Notebook as your adventure map.
Fill it in as you go through your adventure so that you can return to your key takeaways, insights, and mindsets later. Throughout the adventure, we’ll show you how to use your notebook to go from dry beans to nutritious curried sprouted lentils…in just five days!
Click HERE to register and download your Fantastical Winter Garden Notebook
Here’s a quick summary of what’s coming up:
WHAT: FREE 5-Day Fantastical Winter Garden Adventure
WHEN: Available NOW - Day 1 Immediately Available to View
WHERE: Watch each day FREE inside our Online Classroom
Thyme to go walking in a Winter Garden Wonderland!
Grow Your Own Vegetables Team
When you’re eating healthy, you are usually happier. Nothing is better than the taste of fresh vegetables from the garden in the spring and summer.
Imagine that same feeling all winter long, too! Even better—imagine enjoying the food you love in the winter AND watching the seeds sprout to life.
Don’t miss out on fresh greens all winter when you could be growing them NOW...even if it’s snowing outside!
Learn about the 5-Day Fantastical Winter Garden Adventure The FREE 5-Day Fantastical Winter Garden Adventure focuses on how your mindset affects not only you but also your garden.
Each day of the event, Master Garden Instructor Stacey Murphy will share how to create a successful winter gardening mindset using themes from her favorite movies.
Day 1: Supercalifragilistic Seeds: The 5 things that can kill your magic garden before it starts Day 2: Wonderful Water: The magic of water and the importance of a positive mindset Day 3: Magic Micro-Heroes: Everything in the soil that is working for you and your garden Day 4: Be-You-Tiful You: How to nurture yourself and your garden Day 5: Loopty-Loos: Your connection with nature and how to continue the winter gardening adventure Start 5-Day Fantastical Winter Garden Adventure Here When you have a magical mindset and the tools that you need to succeed, your winter garden falls into place without confusion, frustration, and overwhelm.
PLUS with the 5-Day Fantastical Winter Garden Adventure, you receive a Fantastical Winter Garden Notebook to download and have with you every step of the way.
Think of your Fantastical Winter Garden Notebook as your adventure map.
Fill it in as you go through your adventure so that you can return to your key takeaways, insights, and mindsets later. Throughout the adventure, we’ll show you how to use your notebook to go from dry beans to nutritious curried sprouted lentils…in just five days!
Click HERE to register and download your Fantastical Winter Garden Notebook Here’s a quick summary of what’s coming up:
WHAT: FREE 5-Day Fantastical Winter Garden Adventure
WHEN: Available NOW - Day 1 Immediately Available to View
WHERE: Watch each day FREE inside our Online Classroom
Thyme to go walking in a Winter Garden Wonderland!
Grow Your Own Vegetables Team
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Homemade Natural Fertilizer—15 Simple and Inexpensive Options - The Grow NetworkHere are 15 simple and inexpensive natural fertilizer options to DIY using common household items—plus 5 recipes for homemade plant food.
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What to Do With Rose Petals—12 Ideas From the Kitchen to the Boudoir
What to Do With Rose Petals—12 Ideas From the Kitchen to the Boudoir - The Grow Network
Wondering what to do with rose petals? Explore their wondrous power—from relieving sore throats to easing menstrual cramps—in one of our most popular articles ever!
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Jimi, what is the most important thing to get right when you’re starting a new garden journey?
Mindset!
Even before you take the first step, your mindset is everything because it determines your experience throughout the entire journey—ESPECIALLY when it comes to new challenges such as winter gardening.
That’s why we are hosting a FREE 5-Day Fantastical Winter Garden Adventure that begins tomorrow. This event focuses on how your mindset affects not only you but also your garden.
Register for the 5-Day Fantastical Winter Garden Adventure
The FREE 5-Day Fantastical Winter Garden Adventure focuses on how your mindset affects not only you but also your garden.
Each day of the event, Master Garden Instructor Stacey Murphy will share how to create a successful winter gardening mindset using themes from her favorite movies.
Day 1: Supercalifragilistic Seeds: The 5 things that can kill your magic garden before it starts
Day 2: Wonderful Water: The magic of water and the importance of a positive mindset
Day 3: Magic Micro-Heroes: Everything in the soil that is working for you and your garden
Day 4: Be-You-Tiful You: How to nurture yourself and your garden
Day 5: Loopty-Loos: Your connection with nature and how to continue the winter gardening adventure
NOW is the time to start your winter garden to have fresh greens available all winter long!
The 5-Day Fantastical Winter Garden Adventure is not a big time commitment—only 30 minutes per day for 5 days—and those 30 minutes are when you want.
Start 5-Day Fantastical Winter Garden Adventure Here
By the end of this adventure, you’ll walk away with enough lentil sprouts to make a yummy meal for your family!
Join us for this un-beet-able adventure!
Grow Your Own Vegetables Team
PS—When you sign up, you will be able to watch the first video immediately. Then you will receive email reminders each day for the other videos. Click HERE to sign up NOW. It only takes a few seconds.
Mindset!
Even before you take the first step, your mindset is everything because it determines your experience throughout the entire journey—ESPECIALLY when it comes to new challenges such as winter gardening.
That’s why we are hosting a FREE 5-Day Fantastical Winter Garden Adventure that begins tomorrow. This event focuses on how your mindset affects not only you but also your garden.
Register for the 5-Day Fantastical Winter Garden Adventure The FREE 5-Day Fantastical Winter Garden Adventure focuses on how your mindset affects not only you but also your garden.
Each day of the event, Master Garden Instructor Stacey Murphy will share how to create a successful winter gardening mindset using themes from her favorite movies.
Day 1: Supercalifragilistic Seeds: The 5 things that can kill your magic garden before it starts Day 2: Wonderful Water: The magic of water and the importance of a positive mindset Day 3: Magic Micro-Heroes: Everything in the soil that is working for you and your garden Day 4: Be-You-Tiful You: How to nurture yourself and your garden Day 5: Loopty-Loos: Your connection with nature and how to continue the winter gardening adventure NOW is the time to start your winter garden to have fresh greens available all winter long!
The 5-Day Fantastical Winter Garden Adventure is not a big time commitment—only 30 minutes per day for 5 days—and those 30 minutes are when you want.
Start 5-Day Fantastical Winter Garden Adventure Here
By the end of this adventure
, you’ll walk away with enough lentil sprouts to make a yummy meal for your family!Join us for this un-beet-able adventure!
Grow Your Own Vegetables Team PS—When you sign up, you will be able to watch the first video immediately. Then you will receive email reminders each day for the other videos. Click HERE to sign up NOW. It only takes a few seconds.
Hi Jimi,
It's true; you should start your garden early and end your growing season late.
If you love your tomatoes, peppers, and other warm-season fruits and veggies—but have a shorter growing season—be sure to check out another one of our most popular articles of 2023:
"21 Clever Ways To Extend The Growing Season"
In it, you'll hear from the Community on their favorite ways to lengthen their growing season. Number 21 has been and always will be our favorite. Click here to read the full article.
And if you missed our Season Extension Weekend Project released earlier this Fall, there is still time!
In fact, you have all winter to work through the course and plan your perfect season-extending structure. We've ensured everything taught in this course is easy and affordable! Get all the details here.
Have a wonderful rest of your day,
The Grow Network Team
P.S. In the Season Extension Weekend Project, you will learn:
✔ How to build greenhouse-like strategies including:
✔ How to select the right size, shape, and foundation needed for your garden
✔ Multiple Ground Cover Options to keep soils warmer, longer
✔ Different types of "Cheater" Heaters to retain heat inside of your chosen structure
✔ 2 Bonus Videos on building Hoop and Tent Houses for raised beds
✔ 20 page step-by-step eBook
✔ Other Proven Easy and Affordable Strategies
Click here to register now.
It's true; you should start your garden early and end your growing season late.
If you love your tomatoes, peppers, and other warm-season fruits and veggies—but have a shorter growing season—be sure to check out another one of our most popular articles of 2023:
"21 Clever Ways To Extend The Growing Season"
In it, you'll hear from the Community on their favorite ways to lengthen their growing season. Number 21 has been and always will be our favorite. Click here to read the full article.
And if you missed our Season Extension Weekend Project released earlier this Fall, there is still time!
In fact, you have all winter to work through the course and plan your perfect season-extending structure. We've ensured everything taught in this course is easy and affordable! Get all the details here.
Have a wonderful rest of your day,
The Grow Network Team
P.S. In the Season Extension Weekend Project, you will learn:
✔ How to build greenhouse-like strategies including:
- Low Tunnels
- Mobile Tunnels
- Tomato Cage "Greenhouses"
- Custom Sized Cages
✔ How to select the right size, shape, and foundation needed for your garden
✔ Multiple Ground Cover Options to keep soils warmer, longer
✔ Different types of "Cheater" Heaters to retain heat inside of your chosen structure
✔ 2 Bonus Videos on building Hoop and Tent Houses for raised beds
✔ 20 page step-by-step eBook
✔ Other Proven Easy and Affordable Strategies
Click here to register now.
This Week’s Feature:
Join Our 5-Day Fantastical Winter Garden Adventure
This Week’s Feature:
Join Our 5-Day Fantastical Winter Garden Adventure
Eating healthy tends to make you happier, and nothing is better than the taste of fresh vegetables from the garden in the spring and summer. Imagine experiencing that same feeling all winter long! Even better—imagine enjoying the food you love in the winter AND watching the seeds sprout to life.
Each day of the event, we share how to create a successful winter gardening mindset. When you have a magical mindset and the tools that you need to succeed, your winter garden falls into place without confusion, frustration, and overwhelm.
Over the five day adventure, you will be sprouting and growing lentils—enough for a great meal for your family and probably the neighbors, too!
Don’t miss out on fresh greens all winter when you could be growing them NOW…even if it’s snowing outside!
JOIN THE WINTER GARDEN ADVENTURE
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The eighth habit in the series of Habits of a Green Thumb Grower is being highlighted this week. The eighth habit is about your learning habits. We should all be constantly learning. There is always something new to discover!
We believe that anyone can learn to have a green thumb with the right mindset and habits, and we are over halfway through the Habits of a Green Thumb Grower series. Are you enjoying the videos? If you’ve missed any, you can find the links in our archived newsletters, which you can access HERE.
The eighth habit in the series of Habits of a Green Thumb Grower is being highlighted this week. The eighth habit is about your learning habits. We should all be constantly learning. There is always something new to discover!
Free Resource: Stage 1 Harvest ChecklistPRUNING & TRELLISING is the sixth step in the Circle of Awesome, and HARVESTING is the seventh step. To help you achieve success, discover the key pieces of knowledge you need to know in this week’s free resource about Harvesting to grow an abundant garden!
What’s great about harvesting is that by harvesting, you are also pruning your plants. So you’re accomplishing two tasks in one fell swoop!
Be sure to look for other Stage 1 Checklists in future newsletters!
GET THE STAGE 1 HARVEST CHECKLIST
Hi Jimi,
Straw mulch vs. hay mulch: In the battle to control weeds, add fertility, and improve the water retention of your soil, is one better than the other?
It’s the right question to ask when you’re choosing your mulching material ... that, plus questions about availability and cost—because we use a lot of it, right?!
In many areas of the Country, straw and hay are common mulching materials that are pretty easy to get.
So, given the choice, is one a better mulch than the other?
In a word ... yes.
Learn more in the 7th-most-popular article on the TGN blog this year, “Straw vs. Hay: Which Makes a Better Mulch?”
Straw mulch vs. hay mulch: In the battle to control weeds, add fertility, and improve the water retention of your soil, is one better than the other?
It’s the right question to ask when you’re choosing your mulching material ... that, plus questions about availability and cost—because we use a lot of it, right?!
In many areas of the Country, straw and hay are common mulching materials that are pretty easy to get.
So, given the choice, is one a better mulch than the other?
In a word ... yes.
Learn more in the 7th-most-popular article on the TGN blog this year, “Straw vs. Hay: Which Makes a Better Mulch?”
How to Make Aerated Compost Tea: Which Method Works Best?
How to Make Aerated Compost Tea: Which Method Works Best? - The Grow Network
Can you really make microbially actively aerated compost tea with a tiny aquarium air pump? What about using off-grid methods? Find out here!
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What The New USDA Plant Zone Hardiness Map Means For Your Garden
What The New USDA Plant Zone Hardiness Map Means For Your Garden
Are your winters getting warmer? The new USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map suggests they might be, but some growers aren’t so sure. The United States Department of Agriculture updated its Plant Hardiness Zone Map for the first time in a decade, revealing significant shifts that some scientists are...
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Improve Soil Fertility With Autumn’s Gift
Improve Soil Fertility With Autumn's Gift - The Grow Network
Fall leaves are Mother Nature's way of improving soil fertility. Take advantage of this abundant gift using the tips in this article!
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So I guess this isn't technically gardening related, but I'm looking for thoughts on an indoor plant or two, but with the following criteria in order of importance.
1. Non-toxic to cats, in case they decide to nibble on it
2. Does NOT need lots of direct sunlight.
3. Grows well in smallish pot (6" or maybe up to 8") so it can sit on top of a bookcase
4. Common and therefore widely available
5. If it has a scent, then something considered to be pleasant and relaxing
I'm trying to make this particular part of the room a bit zen so to speak.
So with point #5 there are of course herbs that fill the bill, but point # 2 rules most of those out. The room I will be putting this plant in does get decent amounts of sunlight, but where the plant would be located does not, so looking for something that works well with the indirect sunlight it would get. Putting in in a windowsill to get direct sunlight, even for just a couple hours a day, is not really an option because, you know, cats. They think they own the windows.
Looked at boston and bird's nest ferns but they require humid conditions. Not ideal in this part of the country during the winter, running the furnace makes indoor air quite dry. Spider plant looks like it also needs higher humidity levels. Would lightly misting the leaves of plants like this be enough to keep them healthy in a low humidity environment? If so I guess right now I'm leaning towards one of those three plants.
Hmmm, just ran across the cast iron plant? Never heard of it, but maybe that would be easy to find?
1. Non-toxic to cats, in case they decide to nibble on it
2. Does NOT need lots of direct sunlight.
3. Grows well in smallish pot (6" or maybe up to 8") so it can sit on top of a bookcase
4. Common and therefore widely available
5. If it has a scent, then something considered to be pleasant and relaxing
I'm trying to make this particular part of the room a bit zen so to speak.
So with point #5 there are of course herbs that fill the bill, but point # 2 rules most of those out. The room I will be putting this plant in does get decent amounts of sunlight, but where the plant would be located does not, so looking for something that works well with the indirect sunlight it would get. Putting in in a windowsill to get direct sunlight, even for just a couple hours a day, is not really an option because, you know, cats. They think they own the windows.
Looked at boston and bird's nest ferns but they require humid conditions. Not ideal in this part of the country during the winter, running the furnace makes indoor air quite dry. Spider plant looks like it also needs higher humidity levels. Would lightly misting the leaves of plants like this be enough to keep them healthy in a low humidity environment? If so I guess right now I'm leaning towards one of those three plants.
Hmmm, just ran across the cast iron plant? Never heard of it, but maybe that would be easy to find?
My vote is, this is indeed gardening related. Some apartment dwellers can only garden indoors or on the balcony.
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I'm guessing that you've been exploring around the web, but maybe DDG (Duck, Duck, Go) finds different stuff than google.
26 Pet-Friendly Houseplants Safe for Cats and Dogs
Houseplants are stylish, but are they safe for your pets? Keep your cats and dogs safe with these 26 non-toxic houseplant options.
29 Houseplants Safe For Cats (With Pictures)
Do you need to identify if a houseplant in your home is safe for your pet cat? Check out our selection of cat safe house plants to make sure your cat is not at risk!
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25 Low-Light Plants Safe for Cats
Consider these 25 low-light, cat-safe houseplants, including popular picks like the spider plant or Boston fern and more unique options, like a prayer plant.
BTW spider plants don't need a ton of moisture. I grew them when I lived in Reno which is a very dry climate year round.