Herb Gardening Indoors
By Mary Hanna, Fri Dec 9th
Herb Gardening Indoors By Mary Hanna Copyright 2005
Here are some tips for herb gardening indoors that will simulatethe conditions in an outside garden. For Herb gardening indoorsthe growing climates need to be pretty much the same as theconditions outside.
Get your herb plants from a good garden center nursery who willhave plenty of garden advice to help you with your insidegarden. You will need some garden equipment like a small digginggarden tool, garden gloves, organic fertilizer and some smallgardening containers. You probably already have most of thesegarden supplies in your garden shed.
Soil is the most important aspect of growing herbs indoors. Useonly 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 untilspring. If you have an herb that is not growing vigorously add alittle organic liquid fertilizer to the water.
When you go to transplant the herb, go one inch up in the sizeof the gardening container. If the plant is in a two inch pot,go to a three inch gardening container. Leave the roots aloneand be careful not to bruise the stem. Don't plant oreganos,mints, lemon balm or bee balm with other plants because theywill overgrow everything. Pot these herbs in a garden containerall their own. Some people swear that you must put garden stonesin the bottom of the gardening container, but I dispute thatopinion. I feel that the garden stones take valuable space awayfrom the herb roots.
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