Indoor Herb Gardening

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Growing Herbs - Your Indoor Herb Garden Ideas

We believe that gardening is good for our souls, well being and certainly our stress level!
Garden Plant imageA perfect way to get the taste of summer is by growing herbs indoors during the cold months. Most people don’t realize just how easy it is to have your own kitchen herb garden. It doesn’t matter if you decide to start your garden from scratch or from a handy herb garden kit, you’ll find everything you need to know here.
You also can save money on your grocery bill without compromising on flavor by growing your own herbs indoors during the winter. Mediterranean herbs like rosemary, thyme, parsley, oregano and marjoram have a reputation for being hard to grow indoors—but it's easy to keep these delicious culinary herbs alive all winter long if you give them the right amount of light, water and humidity.

Now, more than ever before, people are beginning to realize that good health does not refer to an absence of disease. Rather, it is a balance of physical, mental, emotional and social wellness. Herbal health care is becoming increasingly popular because herbs provide natural stimulants that activate the body's own defence mechanisms.

Due to our sedentary lifestyle, processed foods and industrial advances, we have managed to discover a large number of chronic illnesses that were virtually unknown in the past. Medicines used to treat these diseases have side effects. In time, these medicines also become ineffective as the human body develops a resistance to the medicine. After battling it out for many years, practitioners of conventional medicine are finally willing to admit that herbs (medicinal, tea and even cooking) are an effective source of healing.

Today, consumers are turning to herbs for increased health and vitality, as well as for more domesticated duties such as decorating and cooking. Growing herbs can be an easy process and the results can be used to add flavor to meals, make soothing and relaxing herbal teas or for making fragrant sachets, potpourri, scented candles and oils.

Herbs from the home garden provide the path to a slower pace of life. What could be more relaxing than a sweetly scented cup of herbal tea. A warm cup of lemon balm tea can make life's troubles vanish, a tall tumbler of an iced peppermint infusion will take the heat out of the fieriest summer day. A sprig of lemon verbena thrown into the teapot with your favorite tea will bring a smile to the faces. Herbal teas can be simple, consisting of one type of herb, or a more complex blend of flavors with many different combinations of tea herbs.

Within this blog, you will find information about growing herbs in the garden and indoor herb gardening, as well as information about growing medicinal herbs. Find out how easy it is to garden when you have the Moon working for you! Gardening by the Moon will help you plan when to sow, plant, water and harvest.  There are also sources for getting supplies and equipment for your own home herb garden. 

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Garden Kits and Seeds

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Culinary Herb Garden
Start a garden in your own kitchen. The Indoor Culinary Herb Garden Kit is designed to help you start herbs in your own kitchen or windowsill with a neat little 12" x 12" x 5" greenhouse. This herb greenhouse provides the perfect climate for fast herb propagation and growth. In just a few weeks you will have herb plants.

Herb Seeds - best seed your ever need
Open-pollinated, Organic herb seeds will help you grow beautiful borders, plots and pots of flavorful culinary and healing medicinal herbs. Unique variety of favorite standards such as Lime, Thai and Persian Anise Basil, Dotted Mint, and Mexican Tarragon just to highlight a few. Hard to find heirloom and traditional varieties to help bring diversity to your garden and excitement to your palate.


Medicinal Herb Kit
The Indoor Medicinal Herb Kit is designed to help you start medicinal herbs in your own kitchen with a neat little 12" x 12" x 5" greenhouse. This greenhouse provides the perfect climate for fast healing herb growth. Once you get your medicinal herbs started you can transfer them to a large pot for indoor growing. Twelve different types of medicinal herbs included for you to try. You will be growing your own medicinal herbs in just days.

Wet Pots
Pot imageSelf watering plant pot. Water-Filled Pots Keep Houseplants Healthy. Even with the best of intentions, it's easy to forget to water your houseplants. That's why we like these ingenious self-watering planters from Sweden. You simply fill the clear glass outer pot with water and let your plant absorb moisture as needed through the porous clay inner pot. These are also ideal plant tenders for people who travel frequently.

Branch Plant Stand
Plant stand imageGet all winter sun! Plants and cherished curios take center stage when displayed on this handsome, nature-inspired plant stand. The sturdy steel frame has a rustic bronze finish and holds three beveled glass shelves. The compact footprint fits easily into any indoor living space. Sturdy stand with a delicate appearance. Folds flat for easy storage.Weighs just 9 lbs. For indoor use Gardener's Supply Exclusive.




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