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Better Than Nature Indoor Garden Supply
About Better Than Nature Indoor Garden Supply
This far north in the valley the outdoor growing season has hard edges on both ends. Frost arrives earlier and leaves later than it does farther down the Okanagan, and anyone who wants seedlings ready for the ground in May, or herbs alive on a kitchen counter in January, ends up growing something under lights.
Better Than Nature Indoor Garden Supply is at 3506 25 Ave, downtown. The work in this line is the equipment side of growing rather than the plants themselves: lighting and the drivers or ballasts behind it, fans and filtration to keep air moving, tents and racking, growing media, nutrients, pumps, timers and the meters that tell you whether any of it is doing what you hoped. It is closer to a hardware conversation than a nursery one, and it goes better when you treat it that way.
Measure the space before you go. Room size, ceiling height, where the air can vent to and how much the circuit will carry decide most of what follows, and nobody can help much until those numbers exist. Heat and humidity are the two problems that catch beginners out, particularly in a house sealed up tight against a Vernon winter. Ask about ventilation before you ask about lights, because the second one creates the need for the first, and a room that cooks itself will undo whatever you spent on the rest.
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In the Downtown Vernon neighbourhood of Vernon.
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