How to Make an Indoor Herb Garden

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To start indoor herb garden, actually you should have a sunny window available at your home, this window has function to receives at least five till six hours of sunlight per day. Commonly herbs plants hail from Mediterranean locales and need the light to growing. And then you need to keep your temperature at home between 50º and 60º to create the ideal growing conditions in your indoor herb garden.

And then you need decide what you will be growing in your indoor herb garden. Commonly most popular herbs plants can be grown indoors. Some herbs you might want to grow are:
mint, Oregano, chives,  rosemary and also thyme, these herbs commonly grown indoors, so you can pick a few of your herbs favorites to begin. If you like to cooking, of course, you will love some fresh herbs right at your fingertips just snip and then you can sprinkle fresh chives on your steaming baked potato or add some pungent oregano to make your homemade spaghetti sauce.


 Indoor Herb Garden

How to Make an Indoor Herb Garden

If you are still beginner to growing herbs indoors at your home, might be you can start with planting two or three of your favorite herbs and you can add more as you become more confident.
Although you can start planting your herbs from seed, it is will more easy to buy starter plants from a local nursery or online market. you can use  several types of containers  for your plants, but terracotta planters are became popular today.
While you start planting your herbs, make sure your herbs pots have some drainage holes in the bottom, these drainage holes has function to avoid your herbs don’t rot. And then make sure you keep a saucer or another similarly shaped item underneath to catch the excess water as it runs through. Whatever herbs container you select should be deep enough to promote proper herbs root development, ideally from seven until ten inches deep. Commonly you can plant multiple herbs in one container or you can select individual 7-inches pots for each herbs plant.

Finally, you should take care when selecting the type of soil for your indoor herb garden, most herbs are very vulnerable to soil-born diseases. that is great idea to go with a store-bought potting mix. And might be you can ask  help in your local gardening center to select the right one and make your an indoor herb garden look perfect.