Just under 3 months ago I purchased a herb garden kit from my local nursery. I find that growing a herb garden is a rewarding and efficient way to grow fresh herbs, and to be fair, the best way to enjoy herbs is to have them growing right outside the kitchen where you can harvest them just when you need them!
Growing a herb garden is simple, rewarding and healthy. Have a look!
Create your own herb garden
1. Start by choosing a suitable pot. Fill the pot with potting mix.
2. Sow herb seeds into the potting mix. Make sure you read the instructions on the seed packet for sowing depth and spacing. Most herb varieties can be planted at any time of year.
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3. Make sure you position the pot to suit the variety of herbs selected. Most herbs require sun.
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4. Keep the potting mix moist while seeds are establishing.
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5. Feed the young herbs with organic plant food every now and then to make sure they grow extra strong and healthy.
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6. Begin harvesting when the herbs have plenty of leaves.
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While we were on our recent holiday in Africa, our neighbour had kindly accepeted to look after our herbs. And the herbs had certainly enjoyed this little holiday too....this is what they looked like when we got them back!!! HUGE!
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| 13 June 2012 - The herbs have gone wild while we were travelling in Africa!!!! |
Reasons to start growing your own herbs
- Fresh herbs always available & no more boring dinners: Using fresh herbs help enhance the natural flavour of foods.
- Good for you: Adding fresh herbs to your diet is a great way to boost your meal’s vitamin value, but that isn’t the only health benefit you can obtain.
- Save money: fresh herbs can be expensive when you purchase them individually at the grocery store every time you need them.
- Educational: herb gardening is an educational experience for adults as well as for children. There is always something new to learn, whether it be a new gardening technique, a different recipe etc.
- Fun & simple: starting your herb garden from a kit is fun and easy. The kits contain everything you need to start your herb garden, have it set it up in less than half an hour.
- Share with others: growing your own herbs means that you will always have more than enough herbs than you can possibly use yourself, leaving you plenty of extras to share with friends, family, and neighbors. Dried fresh herbs in pretty jars make wonderful gifts too!
- Relieve stress: the sights and scents that abound in an herb garden delight the senses and revitalize the soul. Having one at your own home makes it that much easier to get to.
Most popular indoor herbs
Some of the most popular herbs to start with are basil, garlic, dill, mint, fennel, cilantro, oregano, chives, chamomile, lavender, and (sing it with me) parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme.
Finally, I hope this post has inspired you to create your own herb garden (indoor or outdoor). It's so much fun!!!
What is your favourite culinary herb?
Do you buy them fresh or dried?
Photos: all these photos are the property of Mademoiselle Slimalicious
Post is not sponsored. The kit was purchased by me.
Hi there, I have some herbs growing in pots in the garden and it's SO good to be able to dash out and get some to use. Except when it is raining though. But I find coriander and basil very tricky to keep alive, maybe I need to try growing them inside??
ReplyDeletelast year I grew parsley, mint, basil and rosemary. Unfortunately, they all died except the rosemary that is still going strong. Fortunately, my lovely neighbour has planted all of the above and coriander too, so I just sneak over there and pinch (with permission) fresh herbs from his garden. You will find the herbs you have chosen to be very versatile. smiles.
ReplyDeleteThank you for your comment Alannah. I would like to grow rosemary or thyme next time! We use ‘Provence herbs’ a lot in French cooking! Also, I actually came to realise I don’t really like the taste/smell of fresh coriander. Oops!
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