Italian Herb Garden Trio: Indoor Garden Gift Set Garden Nursery Landscaping Guide
Italian Herb Garden Trio: Indoor Garden Gift Set For A Small Indoor Herb Garden
By Jon Kryer
Those who aren’t blessed with warm weather all year round know
the pains of a long, cold winter. All of the shoveling, ice scraping
and shivering aside, the gray skies, dirty slush and brown grass
poking out of the snow banks is enough to give anyone a dose of
depression.
To brighten one’s spirits and add a bit of feng shui to the house,
experts recommend planting a small, easy-to-care-for herb garden.
The Italian Herb Garden Trio: Indoor Garden Gift Set makes a nice,
useful present to scare those winter blues away and provide a
little extra flavor to winter recipes.
Fresher Ingredients For Your Meals
"You won’t believe the difference in flavor between using
dried seasonings and using the herbs you’ll grow with our classic
Italian Herb Garden Trio. You can’t get fresher ingredients,"
says the official description.
The Italian Herb Garden Trio: Indoor Garden Gift Set comes with
three attractive, green, 7 inch stoneware planters; a 13-inch
long drip tray; seeds for three aromatic herbs (basil, oregano
and chives); growing instructions; and peat soil pellets (which
will expand when exposed to water).
French Herb Garden Trio
As with any garden, buyers will need to review their options
and pay attention to water, temperature and sunlight requirements
to achieve success with this product. If you like this kit, you
can also buy the French Herb Garden Trio, with Parsley, marjoram
and lemon basil.
For $11.95, you can also buy Amazon’s "Assortment of 12
Culinary Herb Seeds" that includes parsley, thyme, cilantro/coriander,
basil, dill, oregano, sweet marjoram, chives, garlic, mustard
and sage -- and can be grown in the same pots if you’d like.
Ideal Christmas Gift
"I recently purchased this for my wife for the kitchen.
[The] pot’s beautiful and it’s growing just fine," writes
one happy customer at www.wonderbox.com.
"It is exactly as pictured and I’m planning on getting more
for Christmas for friends and family."
At www.austingardens.com,
most consumers gave the Italian Herb Garden Trio: Indoor Garden
Gift Set 5/5 or 4/5 stars. "The pots are extremely attractive,"
says one consumer, who plans to use her pots for growing cat nip.
"I am pleased with this cute little set."
Positive And Negative Reviews
Another reviewer says she fell in love with the green pots, which
will add some life to her office space. "I ordered the set
and it’s beautiful on my desk," she writes. One consumer
admits she was nervous after reading some of the reviews, but
took the chance and now has "plants that are 3-4 inches tall!"
On the downside, an Italian Herb Garden Trio: Indoor Garden Gift
Set reviewer from Tennessee complained that the seeds did not
grow with the soil provided or outside. "The pots are the
only good thing about this product," the buyer writes, adding:
"The second time I tried it I had about 10 little chive plants
grow and that was it."
Similarly, another man commented he was "happy with the
ceramic tray and containers -- not happy with the seeds. One had
no seeds and the seeds in the other two failed to produce."
Where Are The Seeds?
An Arizonan complained that the chives never materialized and
months later, hardly anything had sprouted. A woman from Pennsylvania
received her kit without any seeds included, much to her dismay.
"Finding gardening seeds in the dead of winter is no simple
feat, and for the almost $40 (with shipping) that I paid for this
item, I would not expect to have to deal with trying to find them
anyhow," she wrote.
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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