If you live in an area that has a limited growing season, you don’t need to sell yourself short by sticking to the outdoors. Growing LED lights allow you to extend the growing season by gardening indoors, whether you grow starts for the coming season or tomato plants in the winter for fresh vegetables all year round. Utilizing the best wavelengths of light to encourage plant growth, LED growing technology gives plants exactly what they need – light at the same frequency that creates the photosynthesis process. Every spectrum of LED light is absorbed and used by the plant for maximum beneficial growth.

But you have to ask yourself, are you committed to the investment of LED to make it worth your money?

LED lights are expensive, but provide top of the line growing light. Although new developments have allowed for smaller LED lights in the $50 to $100 range, some of the higher-end commercial grow lights can go for thousands of dollars. Compared to HPS lights that cost as little as $15 a bulb and CFL Grow Bulbs that cost as little as $3.95, LED may be beyond the budgets of what you are trying to do. Let’s face it. You don’t need a $100 light to grow a few tomato starters for a season or two. If you are going to make that initial plunge into buying an LED grow lighting, you should probably plan to use it for many growing seasons in order to make the investment worth it.

The advantages of LED grow lights are considerable. Growing LED lights bring the best attributes of the sun inside where your plants can enjoy it year round. Save money by growing your own starters, planting the seeds when the snow is still thick on the ground. Grow peppers and tomatoes in unused areas of your house, enriched by the exact colors and light frequencies that encourage photosynthesis naturally in your plants. Eat fresh food every day that you grow yourself, even when there’s a foot of snow covering your yard.

With the right portion of lighting, an adequate supply of water, and periodic care, vegetables are easy to grow indoors. The tricky part is getting the lighting right, as it takes a variety of frequencies and colors to enrich the entire growing process. LED lights make that part easy, providing the most ideal light for plant enrichment, and they hardly any use wattage to do it. When compared to traditional HPS lights, a 90 watt LED light can provide the same amount of light as a 400 watt HPS grow light, at about an 85 percent better efficiency. LED is the latest in green technology, providing high power while using hardly any wattage at all. It’s a carbon footprint that’s virtually undetectable.

Indoor gardening makes a satisfying year-long hobby, an excellent source of fresh food that’s more affordable when you do it yourself. Using the same technology that NASA designed to grow vegetables in space, you can grow fresh produce in your home and eat fresh all year.