Indoor Herb Garden
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Have you seen these contraptions from AeroGrow that promise a beautiful indoor garden in just a few weeks?
I got one of these AeroGardens last fall and tried a packet of seeds that promised me a bounty of fresh salads for months on end.
The micro-greens were pretty cool and I definitely remember a few fresh salads with a couple of snips of the scissors. But it sort of petered out by Christmas.
Now I’m trying an indoor herb garden. The Italian Herb packet contains basil, oregano, garlic chives, mint, thyme, savory and parsley.
All you do is plant the seed caps and fill the bottom container with water. The grow light has its own smart timer that goes off and on all day.
Lights on the panel tell you when to add more water and food pellets. (Yes, sort of idiot-proof.)
You pop off the plastic caps when the new shoots reach a certain height. So far, that’s just basil and oregano.
I’ll keep you posted on how this works. And yes, I have an outdoor herb garden that looks much better.
Here’s a link to the AeroGrow site.
You can also grow petunias, cherry tomatoes, peppers, Japanese or French herbs,
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on Tuesday, July 3rd, 2007 at 12:35 pm by Bill Cary.
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Bill Cary grew up in Louisville, Ky. His gardening was limited to growing parsley and impatiens on the windowsill of Manhattan walkups until the mid-1990s when he bought a rundown old chicken farm on 8 acres in the Hudson Valley. Now he spends his weekends chasing deer, hacking away at invasive shrubs and vines and wondering why he doesn`t have more meadow and less lawn.
