Indoor Herb Garden Nursery Landscaping Guide
Indoor Herb Garden - Grow Your Own Herbs
By Jon Kryer
Indoor herb garden is a nice way to grow your own herbs, replacing
the need to buy the freeze dried herbs you normally get from your
supermarket.
When you grow your own herbs, the ingredients are always fresh
and you know if there have been any insecticides, fungicides and
any other chemicals on your indoor herb garden.
When you consider the herbs you buy from your local food store,
you don’t know what kind of chemicals have been used to
get the product you have in your hand. If the label on the packet
states its certified organic, then it is chemical free. Otherwise
all manner of chemicals may have been used to grow your herbs.
My first indoor herb garden
This is why I set up my first indoor herb garden. I just don’t
like the idea of chemicals spoiling the taste of the herbs that
I will use in my cooking.
Gardening is not something that comes easy to me. You see, I
am much better at killing plants than at keeping them alive.
If they ever start a business for plant assassins, I am the man.
All I have to do is try to take care of a plant for a week, and
it is dead within a day.
Nonetheless, I have been trying to grow an indoor herb garden
for the past several months, and have finally met with a bit of
success.
It was not natural to me, but I am so glad that I have done it.
It is one of the most rewarding projects I have ever undertaken.
I would not have come up with the idea of indoor herb gardening
except for a friend who is an amazing chef.
I thought I was a decent cook, but my food tastes are bland compared
to hers. One night, she had me over for dinner. After a particularly
excellent feast, I asked what her secret was.
Herbs have delicious fragrances
She told me that it was her indoor herb garden. She showed be
some of her herbs, and let me smell them. They had delicious fragrances.
There is no comparison between them and the freeze dried herbs
that I used.
Unfortunately, I had no idea how to grow a garden. She gave me
some advice, but it didn’t really help that much.
I followed all of her watering advice, I kept the plants that
were supposed to be in the shade in the shade, and the plants
that were supposed to be in the sun in the sun.
Persistence is rewarded
Nevertheless, my indoor herb garden was not coming along. It
took me months and months to figure it out, and by then anyone
else would have given up.
I am more persistent than most, however. When I decided to have
an indoor herb garden, I would have an indoor herb garden, come
hell or high water.
Finally, my efforts paid off. I cooked my first meal with indoor
garden herbs yesterday. It was Rosemary chicken, and it was absolutely
delicious.
I put a sprig of thyme in the potatoes, cooked the chicken with
the rosemary, and even made a salad complete with sage and lavender.
Indoor herb gardens are the most rewarding gardening project.
There are many plants that look beautiful, but how many plants
also taste beautiful?
Especially when you can grow your own herbs in a controlled environment
like a greenhouse.
In a greenhouse you can control the heat and moisture around
your indoor herb garden. It may be raining outside but your herbs
only get their water from your controlled water supply so that
they don’t get too much water.
And they don’t get exhausted in the summer sun when you can control
the amount of heat coming into the greenhouse.
About the Author:
Jon Kryer has written a number of articles on gardening and landscaping
including Hanging
Flower Baskets, Indoor
Gardening, Plant
Stand
Keep a lookout for more of his articles on this website.
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