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.