Have you heard of hydroponics? Is about plants that grow in water and they create a kind of garden sunk with a large number of crops. To make this garden, you only need any type of container or vase, and the plants that you will place in them.
El water garden It may contain plants from a temperate climate, or from tropical climates, where the water is heated and kept at a constant temperature. The former, you can collect them from the shores of lakes or rivers where the water is slower, the tropical plants, you must collect them in tropical aquariums.
The chosen plants must be disinfected by immersion for 15 minutes in a solution of "Malachite green" o "Methylene blue" (1 g per 50 liters of water), available in produce stores and pharmacies.
With the same product, the container to be used to do this must also be disinfected. water garden. To place in it, you must also get sand and stones.
First, put in garden soil that has been washed and treated with fungicide. Let dry and place the already wet sand, exert slight pressure, and place the stones and rocks. Then place the container away from the windows.
Begin to arrange the plants to create the garden, in the type of order that you prefer. Then you can pour a sponge into the water and place it at the bottom of the container, so as not to mix the sand with the earth at the bottom.
Now you can add the trimmings of all kinds you want. Keep the water garden in a well-lit area but not in the sun.
If this is not possible, artificial lighting should be chosen for 8 hours a day with a 40 to 60 watt incandescent lamp placed less than one meter away.
More information - Gardening: ornamental aquatic plants
Source - pourfemme.it