Showing posts with label herbs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label herbs. Show all posts

Tuesday, 20 January 2015

Budget Tip for One: Grow Your Own Herbs

How to Grow Herbs and Salads in Containers


Grow your own herbs in containers

herb seedlings in planter
herb seedlings from pixabay.com
Growing your own food is cheaper and very satisfying both on your budget and on the sheer pleasure it gives to pick and eat something you have nurtured. The absence of a garden space to grow them shouldn't stop you. It is easy to grow a variety of produce on window sills indoors or outside in window-boxes if that is all the space you have. With a little more space, like a small patio, you can grow almost anything in containers. In this short article I concentrate on growning herbs and salad leaves, these being the easiest things to grow. In addition, herbs and salad leaves grow quickly. There is nothing quite like popping fresh salad leaves in your mouth while they are still warm from the sun. Gardening in a pot can be really good fun. All you need is your imagination.