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How do you care for indoor plants during the winter?
vicki.young
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Please could you answer a few questions in our survey. It should take less than 3 minutes!
https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/GW7DXCY
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Who are you?
Is this a commercial product?
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
I'm a design engineering student.
It's research for a final year project, if we can come up with something good then it will be put up on kickstarter.
Me neither phillipa, I did it, and where it said where is the best place for a plant pot, I put "in a pot", found if very amatourish. I dont turn up the heating "very high" not a millionaire! We have it comfortable for us, plants like most of you on here, will be in situations temp, etc that suite them.
Where and how you keep a plant and how often you feed and water differ form plant to plant and season to season. Lots of info out there in books and on Google. Just look up what your plant needs and treat it accordingly.
Simples!
Not a very clever question or questionnaire I'm afraid.
Dont be afriad Obelixx it was rubbish, guess the student is about 4.
vicki,, I don't know what you're studying for, but I'd ask for my tuition fees back if that's how you've been taught.
Totally pointless. I just read the questions and decided it was a waste of time.
Does anyone grow "vegetables" indoors in UK?
What useful information do you think you can extrapolate from the answers to those questions?
'How old are you? a rather irrelevant opening question.
In the sticks near Peterborough
Thanks for the comments Philippa, I will try to rejig the survey so that its a bit more robust but it's just a first round of research to start coming up with some ideas. Also Kickstarter is a place where students can present ideas and potentially get funding to create them into a commercial product.
In reply to your comment Nanny, would checkboxes (with a few examples of ideas of where exactly around a room a pot would be kept) be better? e.g. on a windowsill, on a desk, in the bathroom, on the floor in the corner of a room.
Just for more information, we are trying to find out if there are any specific problems people have with gardening indoors and if there is anything that could be designed to solve them. Unfortunately we don't have much knowledge of plants ourselves so posted on here as a means of finding out any thoughts.
We were considering whether having indoor heating may cause plants to dry out over the winter (potentially more fragile or tropical plants) and whether this is actually an issue for people, or maybe there is something else that is more important?
I completed the form, but immediately could see the issues. Your survey tries to lump all indoor plants into two to three categories. There are so many plants with totally different needs, often quite complex and some very challenging to grow, which is why indoor plants are not easy for many. I certainly couldn't cope because it's too fussy for me.
In order to grow most indoor plants well, do research on the plant's original surroundings, which is usually outdoors in far flung places. Therefore extremely difficult to solve in one survey.
Thanks for completing the form Borderline and for the feedback. Gauging from your response I suppose that we should direct research into a few different plants which are particularly challenging to grow and see what issues they have concerned? So that a specific needs based solution can be identified.