Anyway You Want It Windowsill Herb Garden
Posted: Tuesday, October 20, 2009
by Shad Alan
the Herb Gardening Site
You've heard the excuses. I don't have enough space or my windowsill is too narrow, it's not deep enough or it's too small. But you only need to think just a little out of the box and you can come up with a windowsill herb garden of your design that you will be glad you have created.
To help start your creative juices flowing, consider the following few solutions to the size problem.
- Get a suitable piece of wood that should preferably be of the same width of your windowsill but wider, making it the right size for your windowsill herb garden. Then all you have to do is to screw it onto your current windowsill and viola, you now have a bigger windowsill that is size of your choice.
- Your windowsill herb garden can be sitting on a wooden bench that will fit in front of your windowsill. You could even give this stand two "benches" to take more herb pots. This would probably look like two steps on your staircase and will work but only if you have sufficient space in from of your window so that any walk-space will not be made uncomfortably narrow.
- If the wooden bench is unattractive, then you could buy one of those metal planters that have several branches of pot holders. Some of these have designs that can make quite a good looking windowsill herb garden.
- One attractive alternative that I have seen would be a charming ceramic bigger pot that has a number of lipped openings in its sides. You will fill this pot with the appropriate medium of soil up to the level of the first hole. Remove your first herb plant from its pot carefully so as not to damage the roots and stuff it into that hole. Then add into the bigger pot more soil up to the level of its second hole. Stuff in your second plant into the second hole and so on until you have plants sticking out the sides of the bigger pot all around it.
- You could also put on your windowsill one of those efficient and nice-looking windowsill herb garden kits that will probably need a deeper window sill (refer to suggestion 1 above).
A windowsill herb garden can be the ideal solution for the active herbal cuisine enthusiast as it provides readily available herbs at all times that can be harvested with the minimum of effort. Best of all they need little even though proper maintenance.
A good choice of plants for your windowsill herb garden could include the cilantro, oregano, chives and mini-basil. These plants are gorgeous and possess attractive rich colours that together will make an eye-catching "herbal arrangement".
Some other good choices for a windowsill herb garden will be basil, chives, tarragon, oregano, parsley and thyme. Make your choice based on which herbs you will use more often so that the harvesting will replace the pruning that makes all plants flourish. This of course will mean that you will be enjoying the culinary use of your windowsill herb garden. The stomach is the gateway not only to a man's heart you know. Most of us like to eat.
If this article has helped to remove some of your reservations about creating a windowsill herb garden and you want to start one in the minimum amount of time then you may want avail yourself of the guaranteed expert advice that is readily accessible at the Herb Gardening Site.
Shad Alan is an herb gardening enthusiast and owner of the Herb Gardening Site. For more great tips on herb gardening and the windowsill herb garden, visit www.herbgardeningsite.com the one-stop resource for herb gardening enthusiasts.
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Top-level comments on this article: (2 total)Great article. Well done.I have one of these. You don't get much from them - but as they say you get out what you put in.Hi Connor,Glad to know there are people doing what I do. Why not start another mini indoors herb garden with bigger pots arranged on the floor or even just outside the door but under cover (like a covered porch) and be able to harvest more crops.Happy Gardening!
This is very nice.. thank you for writing it.. Keep up the good work
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