Vegetables

Determinate and Indeterminate Tomatoes – What Is The Difference?

ShareTweetPinShareEmailPrint In biological terms, the tomato plant is a single species – Solanum lycopersicum. However, the variety of shapes and sizes in which it comes might lead you to believe otherwise. Decades of selective breeding and hybridization yielded a wide palette of tomato varieties, each with its own characteristic traits. The main motivation behind developing […]

What to Avoid When Growing Microgreens

ShareTweetPinShareEmailPrint A wide variety of minerals, vitamins, and antioxidants – microgreens have it all. Adding microgreens to your daily meals is the way to go if you are looking for a boost of nutrients in your diet. And they will also make your meals look and taste amazing! Since we can use seeds from any […]

Top 5 Items Indoor Growers Love To Use

ShareTweetPinShareEmailPrint Confined to growing indoors for the summer? Looking to set yourself up a winter garden? Or looking for a great gift idea for the indoor grower? No worries, we’ve got your back! Because at ChilLed we’ve selected our top 5 favorite indoor gardening items — we made sure to include in a bonus for […]

NASA Astronaut Takes Gardening to a New Level

ShareTweetPinShareEmailPrint  An astronaut aboard the International Space Station (ISS) just stepped up the gardening game, and it’s big news. In mid-April, Michael Hopkins, NASA’s SpaceX Crew-1 mission commander and Expedition 64 crew member, wrapped up the longest plant growth experiment to date on the ISS. With the help of two NASA scientists, Hopkins grew ‘Amara’ […]

Starting Garden Seeds Indoors

ShareTweetPinShareEmailPrint Gardening is incredible for many reasons. But one of the main reasons I love gardening is its flexibility. I can plant exactly what I want — even if my kids refuse to eat a number of my chosen vegetables — and I can plant precisely where I want. To take the “what I want” […]