My Quest to Build an Indoor Herb Garden
I love to use fresh herbs in my cooking and I hate to pay $3-4 for bunch of parsley from the supermarket which is saggy and has obviously been there for some time.
The longer it is between picking the herb from the garden and you using it significantly impacts on the flavor.
The herbs I currently use come from a couple of places, on the deck outside the kitchen and also down the steps in an area behind my workshop.
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.
By using a Hydroponics System I purchased a year ago, I have been getting great results, all the year round.
So, what is my Indoor Herb Garden Challenge about you would be asking yourself!
Leaving the cook bench and going outside to pick some of the great fresh herbs I have, is a real nuisance, So, as you can see – a bit of a defect in the old character.
My ideal it seems is to be able to decide I need say some parsley and just lean over with my scissors and cut a bunch from a pot in the kitchen window – from my very own – Indoor Herb Garden.
The quick answer, I suppose, would be just to buy one of those systems that create an Indoor Herb Garden. However, the one that seems to be the best is not available down here and the one that is, does not get great reviews.
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.
I am also, trying to learn about the Internet, so, thought Id combine the two objectives and put up a Web Site dedicated to the Indoor Herb Garden Challenge and keep a diary of my attempts.
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, wish me luck!
