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Indoor Container Herb Gardening

Indoor herb gardening can be a functional and fun hobby. For those who have no idea what indoor herb gardening is, it is cultivating and growing herbs in the home. The herbs are usually grown in containers which are sometimes placed in or near windows for sun exposure. There are so many benefits from indoor herb gardening. These benefits include convenience of having fresh herbs on hand at your kitchen when you are preparing a meal. Nothing beats fresh herbs when cooking.

What Your Should Know About Planting Herbs In Containers

Indoor herb container gardening is quite easy, especially in this day and age of almost instant everything. Many stores sell pots with premeasured soil and seeds for easy indoor herb gardening. All you have to do is pour the soil in the pot, push in the premeasured seeds and water.

Some tips when planting herbs are to be careful when putting the herb seeds in the soil. Too deep could mean that they won’t grow too well while too shallow or just on top will not allow the roots to have firm grasp of the soil. Indoor herb gardening will need a thin layer of gravel or sandy soil at the bottom of the pot. This will enable drainage for the plant not to be waterlogged. Most herbs do not appreciate too much water left in the pot. Of course, holes at the bottom of the pot will facilitate better drainage. Other preferable prefer to add small pieces of tree bark or chips into the potting mix then do so. This will not only provide better drainage for the pot but will also add to the organic matter in the pot which will be a source of nutrients when it decomposes making your indoor herb gardening effort a success.

A few other things you may want to do is to ensure that your pot’s soil is ever so slightly moist at least until the herb seeds have germinated. This can be done by misting the soil around two or three times each day. Like most plants, indoor herb gardens need sunlight and as such the herb plants should be exposed to sunlight for a few hours a day. By providing exposure to sunlight the plants are coax out of their seeds. As a matter of fact most herbs enjoy sunlight so ensure that they get an abundant amount everyday, and for many reasons this is why the window sill is an ideal place to put the indoor herb garden.

These simple tips for indoor herb gardening would be useful for many especially for the novice gardeners who would want to try out indoor herb gardening at home. By following the steps above, you will ensure that your efforts in having your very own indoor herb garden will be beneficial to you and ease a lot of your stress.

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I grew up in Ontario and only moved to New Brunswick as an adult but the full moon is the same here as there and the reasons for paying attention to it is the same.

I have been following the cycles of the moon for most of my life. It just hasn’t been for gardening purposes. I have used the cycle of the moon for recreational fishing. I tend to plan my fishing trips based on the cycles of the moon.

What I have noticed over the years is that when the moon is full the air temperature tends to drop. The moon’s cycle can start to affect the temperature as early as a week before the full moon and a week after the full moon.

As a kid I learned a great gardening tip about the cycle of the moon and planting your garden.

I used to watch my father when he was planning our garden. Back then our garden was not a hobby garden, it had to get us through the long cold winters. So it was serious business.

Dad had a couple of rules to follow, that I can remember that is. He would not plant certain things before June 10th because of the what I remember as the June 10th frost.

Today I looked at my new calendar for 2009 and immediately turned to June so I could see just when the full moon is for June.

I see that the full moon for June is on the 7th this years so I will be sure to keep  my delicate plants in the green house until about the 14th and those that I have already planted will be covered each night until the threat of a late frost has passed.

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I am a bit embarrassed to say this but man did I mess up our first year as backyard gardeners. My wife left it in my capable hands but I think she should have looked to see if I had a green thumb first.

Not to worry though. It was a learning experience and we will do much better planning this winter.

I am sure that I am not alone when it comes to being a newbie as a backyard gardener. So rather than just plan things in secret I decided to share a few tips that should help us and those that read this post.

Backyard Garden Tips For Spring

Garden Tip #1: Start planning your garden NOW, while it’s still winter. We waited until it was already spring before we started our planning and by the time we had our plan in place we were late, very late.

It’s all a learning experience by there is no need to learn the hard way, like we did last season.

Garden Tip #2: Know the nutrients and soil conditions for each plant you put in your garden, whether they are vegetables, fruit or flowers, they all have nutritional requirements that will cause them to suffer if not met.

Garden Tip #3: Our soil sucks big time and almost like concrete so we chose to use raised bed so that we would have the right soil no matter where we planted.

Garden Tip #4: Know what the spacing for each plant you decide to grow but keep in mind that some plants can be planted fairly close together and then thinned out as they grow.

This tip is great for those that like baby beets or baby turnips. You can have an early treats while giving the rest of the plants more room to grow as they mature.

Garden Tip #5: Keep good notes on your progress and don’t give up if you mess it up like I did. Just learn from those mistakes and do better next time.

Even though I was late planting we still had a lot of great produce, just not as much as we would have if we had planted a month sooner.

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