Indoor Herb Gardens

Indoor herb gardens are a good idea if you have little outside growing space.

They make a great addition to your kitchen - smell good and are useful.

Growing herbs indoors is not much different to growing other plants indoors or growing herbs outside.

You can grow herbs in single pots or group together in larger planters.

If you decide to do groups, then choose herbs that need similar conditions. Don't put mint in with anything else as it will overrun the pot, suffocating the other plants.

Which herbs to grow indoors?

Well, whichever ones you use the most is the simple answer.

Sometimes you can freeze enough to use during the 'off' season, but it's also good to have a few of your most regularly used herbs growing fresh.

Some good herbs to grow indoors are parsley, basil, chives, mint, thyme, rosemary and sage.

You can either start the herbs off from seed yourself - or buy the varieties you want already growing, or take cuttings or dig up small plants from outdoors.

Whichever you decide to do, the instructions are similar.

Choose a sunny windowsill - preferably east facing as it only gets morning sun - you don't want to scorch the plants in really hot sunlight.

For each herb pot, get a plate or dish so that the water won't drip all over the place.

Make sure the plants are well watered and then let them drain so that their 'feet' aren't sitting in water.

Turn the pots daily so that they grow evenly.

Snip off bits with scissors as you need them for coooking.

If the leaves begin to go a bit brown (which they could do in the autumn or winter) then just snip them off.

If you get bugs then immerse the whole pot and plant in water and leave for 15 minutes.

The bugs will drown and the plant will recover if you let it drain properly before putting it back on its plate.

Indoor herb gardens are really useful and smell great.

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