Summer can present a real challenge for indoor gardeners. The obvious heat-beating tactic is to install an air-conditioning system. But this just isn’t feasible or desirable for everyone. Urban Garden Magazine explores air-cooled lighting and other options.
Want to push the envelope? Bust open your boundaries? Top your personal best? Okay, so you might have nodded ‘yeah yeah’ to that string of rhetoric – but, in this section, we’re going to actually show you how to do it. First up, we’re going to take a look at “side lighting” – what it is, how to go about it, and why thinking like a Martian can be quite helpful.
New to indoor gardening? Don’t worry – we all were once! And you know, many an experienced gardener has wished that they could travel back in time and give themselves some sound advice. Fortunately, you have Urban Garden Magazine.
Everest takes a look at keeping a healthy mother plant and why she’s worthy of a lot more time, care and investment than many growers appear to realize.
In this second part of “An Introduction to Light,” UGM examines light’s role in determining the direction of growth, and photoperiod.
Light. It’s easy to take it for granted but what is it and how does it work? UGM tries to shed some lumens on the subject and discovers that there’s a lot more to light than meets the eye.
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