Secret Five - Lighting
All the ten herbs listed need 5 to 6 hours of sunlight or more daily. You may also need to supplement with florescent grow lights or other types of grow lighting. These lights run the range of prices from $30 to over $500 per unit.
To understand grow lights, you need to understand sunlight. In relation to plants, sunlight is measured on a Kelvin color scale. Scientifically, Kelvin temperature measures a light source color relative to the light source color of a black body at a particular temperature measured in degrees Kelvin.
To make this simpler, the Kelvin color light scale measures the visual color or temperature of light in relative degrees of warmth to coolness. Typical summer sun with sky is about 6500K to 6800K.
A typical incandescent bulb is in the 2700 K range or in the warm orange range. A standard fluorescent bulb may be in the 3000 K to 4200 K range or cool blue-white visually. So what you want is a grow light that mimics summer sun without a lot of heat output.