Let me do a small intro to myself and then to describe my plan to make my indoor garden and why.
I have recently moved to Denmark, living in Lystrup now, from Sunny, South Africa. After uni, I worked on yachts for 5 years in pretty much hot, sunny conditions, and with very little soil. However, before both uni and yachts, until I was 18, I had a garden that I cherished and adored. The lawn, I watered every day, I walked out my "cricket pitch" (rectangular piece of garden next to the swimming pool) I played in it for many hours, cricket with my best mates. a little one on one touch rugby during the 1995 world cup when mini rugby balls first came out, and many other activities that required a lot of outside time. During this time I acquired a green thumb, a knack for growing things. All patches where my mom hadn't planted anything and the sun shone brightly I grew something. I grew onions, sun flowers, corn (they turned out to be dwarf corn, which i tried to make pop corn with not very successfully) potatoes, and my absolute favorite, the AVO tree, that was about 7 years old before my dad chopped it down for the neighbors just before we moved out.
So I had a knack for growing things. at uni, my good mates had a little garden in which we planted many chillis, tomatoes, and a few other things, and on the yachts I finally resorted to buying a little bonsai that kept me entertained for the good part of a year before I resigned and had to give it away.
So now I live in Lystrup, and have a garden, albeit, not my own, as we rent, but still, I should grow outside my african instincts tell me....on no. winter is upon us, and I am about to find out all about it in a real big way. Things dont grow in darkness and in snow!
So this is my plan.
In the south facing window, in the living room, I will make a window sill plantation.
It may be two levels. as the window is split already.
I will use one or two shop lights accordingly. the window sill is 180cm across. the split is 60cm high with 10cm above that and another 60cm to the top.
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I have already got numerous birds eye, peri peri, chillis growing from seeds, 3 tomato plants, 2 orange trees,and soon to be beens and Clementines, all from seeds we have chosen not to eat.
As I have a thing for gadgets I will also be implementing a way of counting the sunlight hours, probably using an LRD as a light detector, and a counter to count time, I will make a way to make sure my plants get 16 hours shine!
Next I may add an automatic water pump, but highly unlikely as I really enjoy seeing how my plants are doing, and enjoy watering them. but it would be really cool to use a moister detector to detect when the ground is dry and needs water.
Other inclusions is maybe a data gather. how many light hours are there per day.
Maybe a web cam, to take the daily photo.
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