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Posted: May/20/2007 2:07 PM PST
Hello: I'm new to the forums, nice to meet everyone.  A few months ago, I had to start working in a cubicle. It was very dull looking, so I bought an ivy plant to make my space more friendly. I really like my ivy and am shocked I haven't killed it. I want to expand on this and think a small indoor herb garden would be nice. I live in northern New Jersey and I don't have a yard, so it must be indoors. I do have a nice windowsill which gets a decent amount of sunshine. My fiance loves to cook, so I was thinking of starting with common herbs for cooking. I was looking at the herb kits, but I don't know if they would do well. I have no experience with this. I imagine you could start with those little container kits and transfer some of them to pots. I'm sure this has been asked thousands of time, but would anyone have any advice for herb growing in my envirenment? Are there any good online stores where I can purchase the supplies for starting up? Do kits do OK? Thank you! 
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Posted: May/30/2007 2:22 PM PST
Welcome Sacha, nice to meet you. I was wondering if anyone had tried that 'Aerogarden' product shown on TV. Sounds ideal for you. M. Here's a link with some information, it's not the official site though. http://www.mysecretpantry.com/aerogardenhome.asp |
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Posted: May/30/2007 3:26 PM PST
Those small pots make it easy to underwater your herbs. I would try planting into a small dish garden or just a bigger pot. Be sure to pinch back the herbs often to avoid them getting tall and scraggly.Some herbs don't reside well with others in the same pot. Oregano will crowd out everything else, as will mints or catnip. Parsley is hard to start from seeds, better to get a starter plant of that. I wish you luck, herbs are great! |
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Posted: May/30/2007 6:27 PM PST
Thank you for the replies. Since then, I decided to grow them in individual peat pots. I wrote a post about it in the seeds section. I chose basil, chives, and spearmint. I planted each one and put them in their own ziploc bag. Within a few days the basil germinated and the chives weren't far behind. I think the spearmint germinated today, but it is very small. I have them under a Ott light. So far so good.
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Posted: Jun/09/2007 10:14 AM PST
There are some kits that would work fine. I have one that contains sweet basil, dill, chives, and four other plants. It is the best kit you could probably ever buy and all the herbs are for cooking. The chia sponge soaks up water great so the plants are green and strong. The grow about 7 inches in a week, the chives do, and the basil container is full of the plants. All you need is sunlight.
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Posted: Jun/14/2007 10:56 PM PST
I started out with a small indoor "Italian Herb Kit" as a gift which was pretty much an expensive planter and a fistful of seeds. Tech-junkie me stared at those seeds real confused for a few days before throwing them in the pots, shoving them in the window and going off to play online. With hardly any attention from me the basil and chives germinated and then grew like mad. Sadly, the oregano didn't do anything so I replanted it with new seeds. Although I really love the planter that came with my kit, I'm sure you could save more money with a bag of potting soil and a nice long window box planter. I just moved my growing herb collection into themed long window boxes and I'm sure they're much more content with room to grow they didn't have in two inch glazed pots. No matter how cute. |
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Posted: Oct/18/2007 12:20 PM PST
Hi Saha..... About a month ago one of my sons gave me a Hydrophonic "Aerogarden" with a mixture of "Salad Greens" seeds. Now I thing that in about two more weeks I´ll be harvesting my first "salad"!!!!!.... If you don´t have space this is about the best vegie garden you can get. They have many kits and with different seeds, so you will have a wide choise. It is a little expensive, around US$149.00 or so, but it´s worth every penny. No mess of any kind, just place the seed containers in their holes, add water to the tank, place a fertilizer pill, plub the lights and go. It even tells you with a red light in its pedestal when to add water and fertilizer. Absolutly XXI century gardening......you can find them all over in the Net, just make a Google search..... Gera |
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Posted: Oct/18/2007 12:44 PM PST
Anybody have an idea how to keep my basil through the fall/winter? I had it and some oregano in a strawberry pot over the summer that I have now taken indoors - the leaves are quickly staring to fall off the basil, which I assume is the result of trying to make an annual a perennial. Maybe I should salvage the leaves now, before they all fall out! |
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Posted: Jan/07/2008 2:07 AM PST
There are many indoor garden kit which really helpful for indoor garden because they have all the lights, organic nutrients and equipment you'll ever need to keep your garden thriving year round. |
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