Story: Lighting for Indoor Garden
Episode: 18
Presenter: Neville Passmore
Air Date: 13 December 2025

Transform a spare room into a mini indoor farm with LED-lit grow tents, hydroponics, and ultra-fresh home-grown produce all year round.

• With millions of unused bedrooms across Australia and shrinking outdoor garden space, indoor growing offers a new frontier for home-grown produce.
• Reflective grow tents keep light efficient, while modern LED systems provide low-heat, low-power, long-life lighting that can be adjusted as plants mature.
• Start seedlings with 18 hours of light at 25–50% intensity, increase to 75% at flowering, then 100% during full cropping. Blue light boosts vegetative growth; red and UV support flowering and fruiting.
• Height is the only real limitation; most vegetables thrive indoors. Recirculating hydroponic systems with expanded clay media offer maximum efficiency and zero nutrient loss.
• A weekend setup can transform a spare room into a mini farm, delivering produce picked and eaten within minutes.