How to Create an Indoor Herb Garden

Here is a great activity suggestion from TNSM’s Food and Sustainability Teacher, Beth Canarie.

Not only are herbs fun to plant, nurture and watch grow, but they are also a yummy addition to almost any meal or salad!

To make a garden of herbs inside your home, this is what you will need:

  • Several pots with drainage holes
  • A saucer to place under the pots
  • Potting Mix
  • Parsley seeds, fennel seeds, basil seeds, or whatever herb seeds you might like to grow.
  • Fill your pot with soil, leaving room at the top.
  • Take your seeds and sprinkle them across the soil.
  • Sprinkle a light cover of soil over the seeds.
  • Water lightly to help the seeds grow. (Remember not to give too much water to the seeds.)
  • Water every few days, and watch the seeds grow.
  • Place the herb pots in a window that receives lots of sun.

When the herbs have grown to a height of about 12 inches, you can use scissors to harvest.

 

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