Our modern world is crazed with labels like organic, farm fresh, healthy, non-GMO, and about a million other brands. One thing that has crept up into the fad world is the kitchen herb garden. The majority of us don’t even know where to start! Trust me I was lumped in with that group, but gardening is very important.
I have been mulling over the idea of a home garden for a few years now, but I just haven’t committed to it. Well, that’s all changing now. I am learning that it is never a good idea to jump fully into a project when you have little knowledge about it. Personally I have never gardened, but I get excited and next thing you know bye-bye half of my backyard. I’m going to offer baby steps first, because that is how I plan to taking my gardening journey.
If you are just starting out and developing that ole-green thumb, then you might want to start with this simple idea. Make your own indoor kitchen herb garden.
My own Home Herb Garden using old candle jars, broken pottery, and repotted plants. All I paid for was the plants which cost roughly $7.
Kitchen Herb Garden: 7 Simple Steps
- Take old jars, cans, or other cylinder shaped things and clean them.
- Figure out your drain plan. For cans with holes you can place them on a rock-filled saucer. You can also place a smaller plastic container with holes inside a nicer outer container. Yet another option is to fill the bottom of your container with rocks, shells, marbles, or pottery shards. All of these things will keep your roots from obtaining too much water and rotting.
- Choose from the whole list of plants that are well suited for this indoor garden lifestyle.
- Your next choice would be too decide between planting seeds or buying a plant to re-pot.
- Fill the jar with potting mix up to one inch from the top of your container. (making sure that if you choose to use a container with no holes you place your drainage components at the bottom first)
- Place your seedling or repotted plant inside of the soil, then sprinkle a little more soil on top and gently press down around the plant.
- Water the plant, and place it in an area of your house where it will receive at least 6 hours of sunlight each day.
When pruning your new little fellas, make sure that you take an even number of bigger older leaves as you do smaller younger leaves. You want to do this because the bigger older leaves are the plants primary source for gathering sun…so you do not want to take all of the bigger leaves.
That’s all it takes to develop your own kitchen herb garden! Now you can start developing your gardening skills slowly by maintaining these small plants in your home. Just make sure you water each day, and keep an eye on the plant to make sure that it is not root rotting (from too much watering), or dying from lack of water/ sun.
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