Herb Gardening Indoors

Herb Gardening Indoors By Mary Hanna Copyright 2005

Here are some tips for herb gardening indoors that will simulate
the conditions in an outside garden. For Herb gardening indoors
the growing climates need to be pretty much the same as the
conditions outside.

Get your herb plants from a good garden center nursery who will
have plenty of garden advice to help you with your inside
garden. You will need some garden equipment like a small digging
garden tool, garden gloves, organic fertilizer and some small
gardening containers. You probably already have most of these
garden supplies in your garden shed.

Soil is the most important aspect of growing herbs indoors. Use
only top grade potting soil with an organic fertilizer mixed in.
If you think it is too fine a soil, use a little perlite.
Fertilize while potting the herbs and they should be happy until
spring. If you have an herb that is not growing vigorously add a
little organic liquid fertilizer to the water.

When you go to transplant the herb, go one inch up in the size
of the gardening container. If the plant is in a two inch pot,
go to a three inch gardening container. Leave the roots alone
and be careful not to bruise the stem. Don't plant oreganos,
mints, lemon balm or bee balm with other plants because they
will overgrow everything. Pot these herbs in a garden container
all their own. Some people swear that you must put garden stones
in the bottom of the gardening container, but I dispute that
opinion. I feel that the garden stones take valuable space away
from the herb roots.

When it comes to light, all herbs must get 4 to 6 hours of
sunlight a day on your window sill. If your window doesn’t
supply that much light then purchase garden grow lights and hang
them three inches above the plants. If you live in a very hot
climate shade the herbs during the hottest periods. If you live
in a very cold climate keep the herbs away from the cold glass
panes.

When it comes to watering, don’t let the herbs dry out but don’t
drown them either. An inexpensive water meter from your garden
center nursery will help with this important step in growing
your herbs. Always use room temperature water so as not to shock
the herb's roots.

If you follow all of these steps you will have a healthy herb
garden all winter.

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