Discover the potential health risks of plastic leaching in gardening and explore safer alternatives for growing your own food. Make informed choices to protect your health while enjoying the benefits of gardening.
January 1, 2019
An interesting study from NASA published just recently looks at different LED light recipes for growing lettuce indoors. The US researchers grew the Outredgeous variety of lettuce (part of the Romaine family of lettuces but with red leaves) due to its known sensitivity to the light spectrum, where it was grown for 28 days in
December 15, 2018
IKEA is one of the latest mainstream retailers to jump onto the indoor gardening bandwagon with their own range of indoor gardening equipment allowing anyone to grow their own herbs at home. The IKEA indoor gardening system is not dissimilar to indoor herb gardens from other indoor gardening specialists, but with IKEA’s focus on interior
April 14, 2018
Mars Hydro grow lights contain the more powerful 5W LED bulbs, which tend to run hotter and have a shorter lifespan than their more common 3W brethren. However, the power consumption of a Mars Hydro light is much lower than the sum of the power ratings of the individual bulbs contained within it, so for