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Growing Your Own Organic Herbs

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Pestle and Mortar: Elke Rohn

If you have never grown your own herbs it can be sort of a hit or miss experience. I have successfully grown basil, oregano, thyme, dill, coriander and chives. I love gardening but still am not highly skilled at it.

I am mad over rosemary but apparently, it’s best to grow the plants from cuttings first or buy a starter plant from a nursery. That explains why nothing happened when I attempted growing them from seeds outside.

The best way to grow rosemary yourself is to grab a cutting from an established plant and then put it in a seed starting mix, which I am sure many of you already knew but I’m the type that often learns the hard way. They can be grown from seeds but have a low germination rate. In other words, they’re not so easy to grow.

Stack Herb KitIf you want to give herb gardening a go and get the whole package at once Herbkits.com sells some great indoor herb garden kits. They even section them off into different themes. There’s a culinary kit, medicinal kit, tea kit, salsa kit and salad kit. My favorite is the stack and grow culinary herb kit. It makes such a lovely display, smells good and yet is more useful than flowers.

Benefits of growing your own herbs:

  • Save money. The prices of some of those packaged “fresh” herbs are crazy.
  • Organically grown. You can be sure there are no pesticides or chemicals added if you have grown them yourself.
  • Freshness. You know they’re fresh because you just picked them. Many chefs have their own herb gardens for that very reason.
  • Nutrition. Fresh organic food is just better for you.
  • Improve the environments air quality. Plants really do clean the air by removing carbon through photosynthesis, which makes them wonderful for indoors as well. One little herb garden might not seem like it would make a big difference but every little bit helps.


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