Indoor Herb Garden - The Challenge

If I buy my fresh Herbs at a Supermarket and use them in my cooking I am mostly disappointed with the quality and the result.

The longer it is between picking the herb from the garden and you using it significantly impacts on the flavor.

To date, I have been growing fresh herbs outside the back of my garage, down some steps from the deck outside the kitchen as well as some on the deck itself.

The ones on the deck are grown in normal soil and the results have been mixed, it is currently winter here in Sydney Australia ” so, not expecting too much growth ” in the summer I get good results from this way of growing.

However, my most success has been using a Hydroponics system I bought last year. the Basil is superb and the Lemon Grass has taken over everything!

What is this Blog all about I can hear you ask?

Believe it or not, I think its a pain to have to leave the kitchen to go and pick the fresh herbs I have growing outside - a bit of a character flaw I am afraid.

So, it struck me recently, how great it would be to just have them growing on the bench or in the kitchen window and I could have my very own indoor herb garden, where I just lean over and pick the herb I need to use and then it keeps growing and refreshing itself.

Well, easy you might say, just go out and buy one of those kits that you see advertised around the place, so, I did think about doing that and read some reviews etc. The one that is marketed mostly in Australia I wont mention brands at this point, it uses a lamp system and looks great on TV, but from reading some reviews, it may be a bit noisy, also, it is quite pricey. There is another one I see advertised in USA ——- which seems to be good, but doesn’t sell here as far as I know.

Why reinvent the wheel? I have been very successful with the Hydroponics System, so, I might as well try and do the same inside and have a purpose built Indoor Herb Garden.

That is what my Indoor Herb Garden Blog is all about.

In addition to keeping a journal of my efforts, this should help me to understand the internet better.

Despite the fact I am living in Sydney Australia, this should be useful worldwide as we all have indoors.

I am sure there will be lots of people saying I cant do it for a variety of valid scientific reasons, but as they say in Australia ” Give It A Go You Mug !!!

So, get behind me on this!

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