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Growing Indoor Herbs For Flavor, Aroma, And Healthy Living

Category: In The Garden | Posted: Fri Dec 09, 2011 12:39 am

Growing indoor herbs for flavor, aroma, and healthy living is something that gardening lovers should consider, just to keep busy and to still enjoy the pleasure of growing plants.

A window sill should do, especially if the space is limited.

Winter is not waiting for no one and is approaching rapidly, and in many places is already showing its cold face, with fury or at least snow flakes. Not to worry too much, because as it comes so it goes!

Winter has its own unique charm and in many ways it can be pleasant at times, too.

But sooner or later the nostalgia will hit us, and makes us think of the wonderful activities we had in our gardens and backyards, and patios, and so on.

Looking through the window while the snow flakes are falling down, is a unique experience to have from the warmth of your home.

How about moving the garden (in a way) indoors and grow some wonderful fragrant, aromatic, tasty and health beneficial herbs.

Growing herbs indoors in containers, is a lot of fun and it is not hard at all. There are so many choices, but you can choose the ones that you like the most.

Some herbs that you would like to spice your favorite dishes and salads, and enjoy a wonderful difference in your cooking. They taste delicious!

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A few herbs that comes to mind would be Sweet Basil, Parsley Plain Italian, Arugula, Cilantro, Dill, Lemon Balm, Peppermint, Tarragon, Chives, and many others that you prefer.

All these herbs can be started in some 4.5 to 6 inch plastic containers, square or round. They don't take much room and can be grown close to a window to get at least 8 hours of day light. The more light the better.

For a successful batch of potted herbs indoors, you'll need some good fine potting soil preferable with some micro-nutrients blended in, and rich in peat-moss. You can find it at your local garden center, or hardware store.

Fill up the pots and leave about 1 to 1.5 inches from the top of the pot, and sow the seeds spread throughout the surface of the soil in the container.

Cover the seeds with a thin layer of the same fine potting soil, and water thoroughly with a fine mist.

Set them close to the outside light in the window. Keep them watered but not soggy, until the seeds sprout out.

Once the little herbs are sprouted, water carefully as not to bend them to the soil. Just keep the water flow in a corner of the pot and let it flow slowly until all the surface is wet.

The little pots should be full of little herbs, and as they grow, start pinching as much as you'd like for fresh use. By harvesting the herbs as you need them, you'll encourage growth and thus enjoy them all winter long, and well into the Spring, until you can move them outside.

It's such a wonderful feeling to be able to harvest at will whenever you want from your own kitchen window sill. Don't pinch no more then about one third of the tips of the herbs.

If you prefer, you can plant different kinds of seeds of your choice, in a rectangular box that would fit just right in the limited space you might have.

As long as they receive the adequate light, water and air circulation they will thrive.

For a more abundant herb crop, you can use some organic fertilizers, preferable the slow released kind, that will not be too strong on the little tender herb plants, and thus avoiding to burn them.

As I've explained above, I think that it is better to sow the seeds all over the surface of the potting soil in containers. I had a great deal of success whenever I planted herbs by using this method. If you sow just a few seeds they are not likely to do that well.

Just try it once and you'll understand my theory. The little plants kind of hold each other up, and grow more robust by competing with each other. Not to worry, they'll get along just fine!

So as you can see, indoor herbs growing is not hard at all. In fact it is easy, and you'll have fine flavor, aroma, and healthy living too. Spice up your favorite dishes and salads and enjoy your food to the maximum.

I hope that this little article about growing herbs indoors is helpful to you, and will give you some useful ideas.

Until next time
Mike Borlovan




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I need to write more new blog entries.

Category: In The Garden | Posted: Sat Sep 04, 2010 8:50 pm

I need to come back more often and write some more entries in this blog. I got so many ideas, but at this time I'm staying so busy writing some Articles about gardening and landscaping on my wordpress blog.

As soon as I finish organizing it, I'll be more active in the GardenStew, that I like very much.


Mike

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Welcome To My Gardening Blog

Category: In The Garden | Posted: Wed Aug 25, 2010 4:57 am

I can hardly think of any more pleasurable activity than being envolved as intimately as possible with the Nature. There is nothing more exciting than working and experimenting with different plants like fruit tree, berry bushes, vegetables, herbs, blooming perennials, and annuals.

Working in the garden, in the tranquility of your own universe, observing different aspects and behavior of the plants, birds, butterflies and other insects, in the middle of nature is simply wonderful!

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