Grow Your Own Food Year Round in a Grow Tent

Do you love the taste of tomatoes picked fresh off the vine?  How about the taste of ripe, sun-warmed strawberries?  Or the delicate texture of fresh-picked zucchini flowers that are so rare to find in grocery stores?  

Gardening is a daily adventure.  Everyday, you'll find a new bud or fruit growing on the plant you've painstakingly cared for.  It is a joyful experience.  It is peaceful.  

Gardening has the power to calm the mind and connect you to the earth.  New meaning is brought to your meal when you've cared for the food you're about to eat.  You become more mindful of your food.  Eating becomes a sensual experience as your senses become more aware of the texture, fragrance, and the explosive flavors.  Fruits and vegetables that are fresh off the vine taste immeasurably better than their counterparts at the grocery store.

Isn't it a shame that we only get to experience these pleasures once a year?
Wouldn't it add value to your life to be able to experience the pleasures of gardening year round?  My morning ritual includes drinking my coffee as I check on all of my plants, searching for new buds, flowers and fruits.  It makes me giddy to find new treasures each morning.  It centers and grounds me, setting a positive tone for my day.  

You can grow your own fruits and veggies year round.  By keeping an indoor garden, you'll be able to experience perpetual harvests of fresh, organic, pesticide-free produce throughout the year.  Your food will taste better.  It will contain more vitamins and nutrients.  It won't be genetically modified.  You'll save money on your grocery bill.  Do I need to go on?

But where do you begin?

As most of you know, I own a hydroponics shop in my town.  There are so many ways to have a successful indoor garden, your options are only limited by your imagination.  I have customers construct innovative new gardens all the time and it's fun to be a part of their creative process.

One way to grow some of your food indoors, especially if you lack space, is to use a grow tent.  You can get them in sizes as small as 2' x 4' and as large as 10' x 10' or even a little larger.  

In the video below, I show you how we grow some of our food in the 4' x 4' grow tent in our shop.  In this one tent, we are growing 3 tomatoes, 2 sunflowers, 1 bean plant, 2 peppers, and a few cauliflowers.  

I encourage you to start opening your mind to new ways of becoming self-sustainable.  By doing so, we can heal our earth and create a better world from the ground up.

Happy gardening,

Mon