Maggie



First you will need to find out which plants need what to survive. For example, some plants need more sunlight than others, but don't need as much water. Let's consider the amount of water different plants need to survive first. Say you have a cactus that lives in the desert and cattails that live in wetlands. The cactus only needs a little water, and the cattails need lots of water. To start off, you'll need to seperate the two plants. If you have a large greenhouse, this could be easy, but if your greenhouse is pretty small you might have difficulty. Next, you'll probably need to get two sprinklers, one for each plant. If you don't plan on caring for the plants every day, you might want to get automatic sprinklers that will water the plants for you when you want them watered. Next, you should set the sprinkler that waters the cactus to only give the cactus a gallon of water over the course of around 2 weeks. Cattails need contant watering and often live in ponds, so the sprinkler for the cattails should probably be running continuously, or at least waters the plants twice a day.

So you've solved the water problem, but what if you have plants that need different amounts of sunlight, or the temperatures they thrive in differ? The most common solution to this problem is "grow lights".