Several fruit varieties grow well indoors provided you have a sunny location for them in your home. Strawberries are easy to grow indoors. Although the berries may be smaller than those grown outdoors, they should be sweet and tasty. Dwarf citrus trees were specifically developed for indoor life and can bear fruit all year-round.
Things You'll Need
For the strawberries:
Jar
Sand
Instructions
Growing Strawberries Indoors
1. Place strawberry seeds in a closed jar and keep it in your freezer for two to four weeks.
2. Set the jar on your counter or table for several hours before planting, allowing them to reach room temperature.
3. Mix clean sand and loamy potting soil together in equal parts. Purchase pots with drainage holes and fill them with the mixture. The pots should be 8 inches deep and at least 4 inches wide across the top. Set the pots in drip trays.
4. Press six seeds into the top of the soil of each pot using your thumb. Cover them with a sprinkling of potting mixture.
5. Spray your seeds with water and then position the pots on a windowsill receiving at least eight hours of sunlight every day.
6. Mist the pots with water a couple of times each day to keep the soil slightly moist.
7. Thin the seedlings when they grow to 2 to 3 inches. Leave only the strongest seedling to mature in each pot.
8. Apply water to the seedling, stopping when a few drops of moisture come out of the drainage holes. Maintain moisture around the growing roots.
9. Fertilize your strawberries once per month during active growing, blossoming and fruiting periods. Purchase a liquid fertilizer suitable to use on fruiting plants.
10. Leave your strawberry plants on the sunny windowsill, pruning dead parts as required.
Growing Fruit Trees Indoors
11. Purchase a dwarf fruit tree from your local nursery or garden store.
12. Cover the bottom of a 10- to 15-gallon container with a layer of stones.
13. Remove a couple of inches of the outer rootball of a bare-root tree. Prune any dead branches.
14. Place the rootball in the container and then fill it with a light, airy potting soil. Cover the rootball with soil but do not pack it down.
15. Water the soil and place the container in a sunny, draft-free room. Water it regularly, letting it dry between waterings. Fertilize it at least once a month with a mixture containing manganese, iron and zinc. Brush the stamens of open blossoms with a paintbrush to pollinate the tree. Remove overlapping branches and branches that are growing underneath the graft union. Prune any time of the year.
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