How To Grow Organic Herbs In Your Home

Growing organic herbs indoors is a very simple and smart thing to do. Most herbs are small and can be grown in window containers, or other small containers. You are not limited to only planting herbs in your kitchen; you can plant them anywhere in your house and enjoy their natural fragrances.

Although most people grow herbs in their outside gardens, there are several advantages to growing herbs indoors as well. When you are cooking and decide you need herbs, you are in arms reach of them instead of having to walk outside to pick them. Another advantage to growing herbs indoors is that you can control the environment in which the herbs are grown. Growing herbs in a controlled environment produces better and longer lasting plants.

Herbs such as mint can be evasive and take over an outdoor garden.  Planting herbs like this inside you can control their spread. 

Another great advantage of an indoor herb garden is the fragrance that they produce. Herbs such as lavender, mint, and thyme produce essential oils. Your entire house can be rewarded from the benefit of these herbs being inside.
 
Some herbs such as bay and lavender can grow to be quite large. You can plant these in larger corner pots to look almost like an indoor plant. Also, the scent of these plants can fill the entire house. If you do not want to have large plants in your home, you can find dwarf varieties that will grow in smaller containers.

If you have an indoor herb garden it is also easier to maintain. You will see the herbs daily, so it will make you want to take good care of them so they will thrive. It will also be easy to remember to water the plants since you can see when they become dry.

Since you are having an herb garden inside, you should make it an organic herb garden. Having an organic herb garden is important especially if you have small children or animals in the house. An organic garden will not harm anything if some part is accidentally ingested. All that would be needed for an indoor organic herb garden would be organic soil since the plants will not be exposed airborne pests that they would be outside.

Planting  organic herbs indoors is a great project to do with children. Having them help maintain the herbs, and helping when it is time to harvest them for recipes is a great way to have your child involved in the kitchen. It also teaches them responsibility and how to take care of a living thing, without having to have a pet.