Growing an indoor herb garden

If you are short of space in your garden try an indoor herb garden instead. There are plenty of smaller varieties and dwarf varieties of herbs that will grow quite well in small pots that can be placed on a kitchen windowsill. It makes cooking easier as you do not have to run to your outside garden to pick a few herbs. You can just simply turnaround and grab a few leaves!

Growing an indoor herb garden is easy and fun, lots of kits are available that have everything that you need to get started. There are even kits available that are fun to use and will get the kids involved. You get the same benefits that you would growing outside, but with some definite advantages.

· It is easy to monitor your plants
· Maintenance is easier
· No bugs eating the leaves
· So no nasty chemicals needed
· Easy to pick fresh leaves for cooking.


As most herbs are aromatic when you plant an indoor herb garden you get the fantastic fragrance they provide (air freshener any one?). You never now you may even get inspire whilst cooking and using the fresh leaves rather than the dried ones sitting in you cabinets will give your cooking a much better flavor.

Growing herbs indoors can also protect your outside plants as herbs by nature can be very invasive and if not controlled can take over the rest of the garden, but by growing your herbs indoors in pots this problem is overcome.

We all now that having plants in a room can make the room warm and cozy. Now by growing herbs indoors you get warmth combine with pleasant fragrance and a useful plant too.