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How To Enjoy Your Own Herbs Indoors

An easy way to enjoy the availability of fresh herbs whenever you like is to consider an indoor Herb Garden. Growing your favorite herbs inside your house in containers adds fragrance and brightness to the rooms, and refreshes the air. It is a delight to be able to add some sprigs of your own herbs, freshly picked a moment ago within hand's reach, while you're in the kitchen cooking.

Having your herbs indoors makes them easily accessible to you, for example on your kitchen windowsill, but potted herbs can be kept in other sunny spots as well. To be successful at indoor herb gardening you don't need a big investment to start with, only a passion for herbs whilst following some basic steps.

Managing the growth requirements of your Herb Plants indoors is easier than outdoors: light, temperature and moisture.

Indoor herbs need between 4 to 6 hours of sunlight a day on average to grow happily. If the spots where you placed them do not let in sufficient light, you can purchase special garden grow lights to hang a couple of inches above the plants. Some telltale signs of insufficient light are stems and leaves that grow long, leaves that fade or simply fall off.

How often to water your indoor Herb Garden is an important question, as plants tend to dry out quicker indoors than if they were growing outdoors. But you can easily tell when to water them by sticking your finger into the soil about half an inch below the surface. If the soil feels dry, you would want to water the plant. However, take care not to water too much as you could be encouraging plant diseases such as root rot and powdery mildew.

To compensate for the dryer air inside, a fine mist water spray can be used to spray your herbs plants all over about once a week. Or you can also place the potted plant on top of a tray of small rocks or pebbles that are covered in water. This way the herbs are humidified when the water in the tray evaporates.

Temperature

Herbs plants need to be shielded from extreme temperatures. In a very hot climate, the plants have to be shaded during extreme heat periods, and conversely, they have to be shielded from extreme cold, taking note that glass panes get very cold.

Choice Of Indoor Herbs

You can enjoy multiple benefits by choosing to grow your favorite herbs indoors, and also the ones with various uses:

Sage
is commonly grown in a kitchen herb garden as a Culinary Herb in meat or poultry dishes, but is very effective as a Medicinal Herb made in a tea for colds and sore throats.

Chives is a popular Culinary Herb and grows easily on the kitchen windowsill - you just need to cut it back often, which happens easily as it can be used in most dishes.

Thyme can also be used as a culinary and Medicinal Herb. It adds a delicious taste to savory dishes, and helps to combat flus and colds when made into a tea.

Sweet Marjoram adds flavor to most dishes, and can be used in the place of oregano.

Parsley looks beautiful as a food garnish due to its deep green color and decorative leaves. But it is in fact a potent antioxidant as well. Another use is as a breath and palate cleanser and freshener.

To round off your indoor herb garden you can consider some containers with fragrant herbs, like Rose Scented Geranium and Lemon Balm. Lemon Balm has more uses than just its fresh smell and can be made into a tea to combat stress, promote sleep, improve appetite and aid indigestion.

Finally, you can enjoy and see your herbs settle into their new surroundings. When they sprout new leaves and branches, you can start using them as harvesting your herbs will cause them to grow more vigorously.

About the Author

Enjoy Fresh Herbs Daily In Your Own House By Growing Herbs Indoors Go To
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Di Green is an experienced writer on health, environmental matters, and the arts and crafts, amongst many interests.

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