growing your own herbs....

[Dupont666]

I have no outside space thanks mainly due to living in a flat so have been looking at ways to grow herbs, thought about just getting a herb garden like below and keeping it inside:



but then came across this aerogarden thing:



http://www.bestdirect.tv/brand_id/ag/cid/NVQZ133BD...

but at around £100 and only being able to buy seeds from them, it seems a bit steep.

Has anyone got one or tried one?

[LordGrover]

Darn!



Disappointed of Sodbury.

[condor]

You can buy pots of herbs from the supermarket and try keeping them on your window ledge

[Dupont666]

condor said:

You can buy pots of herbs from the supermarket and try keeping them on your window ledge

so you are saying method one once i buy the living ones first?

[condor]

As long as there's plenty of natural light I can't foresee a problem - but I have a garden and grow my herbs outside. I buy the fresh pots of basil/parsley/coriander from the supermarket and replant them ( as they're too crowded in the pot). Chives and mint I'd grow from seed - Rosemary from a market stall. Don't tend to use sage or thyme much.

[Cotty]

Dupont666 said:

condor said:

You can buy pots of herbs from the supermarket and try keeping them on your window ledge

so you are saying method one once i buy the living ones first?

You have a lot of room in option one. Why not try to grow some from seed along side bought plants.

Mine last year were grown from seed on a sunny window sill

Edited by Cotty on Sunday 12th April 16:28

[HiRich]

There is a range of plants you can grow indoors, and you could do a lot worse than pop to a garden centre.

A good start would be a little paperback called "The Vegetable & Herb Expert" by DG Hessayon (£7.99, most garden centres have the range of books) - quite handy idiot guides. You're then looking for:

• Sun
• Decent pots (one plant per pot) with plenty of space for watering. Probably best to have pots with holes underneath, and sit them in trays. About £4 for the basic plastic brown ones with a tray.
• Seeds or seedlings - Expect to pay about £1.50 per item.
• A bag of compost (£5)

Seedlings normally come in 2-3" pots, and you'll want to upgrade to about 5-8". Most herbs will do fine as long as they get regular watering (that may be daily, particularly in the heat of summer). Other handy things in time may be:

• A cutlery fork: to lightly weed
• Small pop bottles: Cut the base off, drive the top into the soil, and you've got something that will water to the roots.
• Some insecticide spray (whitefly, blackfly & aphids being common).

Best to go for one pot per plant. Some like mint would take over (at the end of the year, dig it out a replant a bit of root for next year). Your first photo looks quite good, if it suits what little space you have. Otherwise, just use pots on a window ledge.

[anonymous-user]

Dupont666 said:

I have no outside space thanks mainly due to living in a flat so have been looking at ways to grow herbs, thought about just getting a herb garden like below and keeping it inside:



but then came across this aerogarden thing:



http://www.bestdirect.tv/brand_id/ag/cid/NVQZ133BD...

but at around £100 and only being able to buy seeds from them, it seems a bit steep.

Has anyone got one or tried one?

If your not green fingered that AeroGarden seams quite neat! dont know why you would have to buy seeds from them though! and garden centre seeds would be fine.