Chapter Two
Why Grow
a Culinary Herb Garden?
You may think you want to grow a Culinary Herb garden for herbs to use in cooking, add to your salads or making seasoned oils or vinegars for salads. And you would be right of course! Then there is making flavored oils and vinegars as gifts for friends and family members.
But there are other reasons for doing a little indoor gardening. There is a return to the primal sense of nature driven by your own small piece of nature inside of you. Working with plants and soil, relieves stress, it gets us back to a simpler time of life and there is a sense of accomplishment in growing plants. Indoor herb gardens can be very esthetically pleasing to look at plus they can smell good too. Spending a small amount of time caring for your garden each day allows an escape from the cares of the day. Just ask a bonsai gardener about this.
In our journey we will look at container gardening indoors. The types of herbs to grow, whether to start from seed or plants (Secret One), starting from plants or seeds (Secret Two)kinds of pots and containers (Secret Three), soils (Secret Four), Lighting (Secret Five), Air Circulation (Secret Six), How to Water (Secret 7), fertilizers, mini-garden tools, pest control, successes and failures and why, harvesting your herbs and recipes.
Whatever you choose, just be prepared to make choices. And there are plenty of them. Of course, this sounds overwhelming at first. But when our journey is over, you will arrive at a place knowing your intentions, well armed with the names of a few herbs you like including some of your favorites and the knowledge to succeed with your indoor garden.
And hopefully, as we travel together, you and I, you'll discover a few more herbs you hadn't initially considered. After all that's the true joy of herb gardening -- watching something unexpected spring up.