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Growing a garden in containers is rapidly becoming more and more popular. Also, it is very simple and sometimes easier.For years we have seen people growing flowers in containers and hanging baskets. Now the growing trend is to have a vegetable garden grown in containers. This is especially helpful for people who have no yard or a limited yard available to plant vegetables.Favorite container garden plants are: tomato, pepper, herbs, strawberries.You can purchase special tomato plants called deck tomatoes that do especially well in pots. You will need to stake them in the pot but they do not grow especially tall or large and produce tomatoes throughout the summer.Plants not very well tolerated for container growing are the vine variety that need to crawl along the ground. These would be pumpkin, zucchini, yellow squash, eggplant and cucumber. Of course, corn and potatoes also fall into this category.With herbs the easiest way to start them is early in the spring with seed packets. You can go to your local dollar store and purchase seed packets and a plastic starter seed growing flat for a couple of dollars. Once you have started your seeds and have seedlings about 2 to 3 inches .. more »

Light is essential to herb growth. Gardening indoors necessitates providing your plants with light similar to what they would get outside in the sun. Grow lights are extremely important for any grow room gardening operation. Sunlight provides a great deal of light for? herbs growing outdoors and creating that effect indoors is difficult.When planning your grow room lamp system the important thing to remember is the light spectrum frequency of the bulbs you utilize. The light spectrum is a measure of the frequencies of light. Different wavelengths of light have different effects on a crops growth and so thought should be used to decide what types of lamp you are going to utilize and when.Lighting can require a lot of electricity and make a large amount of heat. To counteract these issues special lamps have been created to be very efficient; able to provide herbs with adequate energy to grow and bud while utilizing a tiny bit of the energy as normal bulbs. The main bulb types are fluorescent grow bulbs, high intensity discharge lamps including high pressure sodium lights and metal halide bulbs, and LED grow lamps. Growers use these types of lights either alone or in combination.Normal fluorescent .. more »