There’s nothing better than a homegrown touch to a dish you have prepared.
A lot of people think it’s a huge hassle to grow any food element at home, but have you considered an herb garden?
You can have an indoor herb garden, meaning you don’t have to worry about the weather outside to grow these tasty add-ons.
Your dishes will taste better for it, and you’ll be satisfied with your gardening work.
You’re convinced, right? You want to make your own indoor herb garden. You just need to know what your options are.
Indoor Herb Garden Ideas
As with any kind of garden, indoor herb gardens provide tons of options.
There is no one right way to do it. You can be creative here. You can use just about any container and arrange it in whatever way pleases you.
Here is just a sampling of ideas for how to make an exciting and rewarding indoor herb garden.
1. Hanging Herb Garden
As with any kind of garden, indoor herb gardens provide tons of options.
There is no one right way to do it. You can be creative here. You can use just about any container and arrange it in whatever way pleases you.
Here is just a sampling of ideas for how to make an exciting and rewarding indoor herb garden.
This method is very popular because it just looks so darn cute.
You can hang up your plant containers, which you can use regular drinking glasses for. Attach the drinking glasses to hooks on your window by wrapping the top of each glass with wire.
You may also choose to hang your plant containers from your counters.
The benefit of having a hanging indoor herb garden is that you will save tons of floor and counter space.
Hang Them from the Ceiling
Hanging your plant containers from the ceiling gives you more room to move about your kitchen and living room areas, plus it gives you something pretty to look at when your eyes glance up.
There are tons of ideas out there for containers to use when starting a hanging herb garden, so if you would rather use something fancier than just drinking glasses, look around on craft sites for ideas.
Some of the most popular choices to hold plants in this kind of herb garden are 4-inch terra cotta pots or macramé planters.
You may also choose to make shelves with holes in which you can insert your tiny pots. This is a bit more time consuming, but it will make your herb display that much more exciting.
2. Kitchen Utensil Herb Garden
Another great idea when creating an indoor herb garden is to use your kitchen utensils.
That’s right, you can use things you already have in the home, and fill them with soon-to-grow delicious herbs.
Some common kitchen items you can fill with soil to start your indoor herb garden are: a boiler, a tea kettle, or a saucepan.
If you’re having some trouble deciding what herbs to grow in your kitchen utensil herb garden, just start with some common and easy ones: parsley, dill, rosemary, thyme, chive, cilantro, lemongrass, and mint.
All of these herbs are very useful in tons of recipes, making your dishes more flavorful without taking any extra time. You can grow the herbs from the seeds in between 10 and 30 days, so you do not have to wait long to see fantastic results.
3. Tea Can Herb Garden
Making your indoor herb garden in empty tea cans allows for a classy, old-fashioned aesthetic in your kitchen.
One of the cutest elements of this idea is that you can grow herbs to use for tea in actual tea cans. Talk about reusing and repurposing.
Some herbs you can grow in old tea cans and later use for tea are:
- Mint (with varieties such as peppermint and spearmint)
- English lavender
- Lemon balm
- Beebalm
- German chamomile
- Thyme
- Sage
- Ginger
- Lemongrass
- Stevia
Each of these herbs will add a different effect and flavor to your tea, so it is a great idea to grow them all and have options.
It is smart to grow herbs like these in a small herb garden held in objects such as tea cans because if you were to grow these herbs on the ground, you would eventually have an overpopulation problem.
You do not want to allow the herbs to spread out too much and take over all your room. Contain them in your kitchen containers (hey, maybe that’s where they get the name).
4. Mason Jar Herb Garden
Repurposing mason jars is all the rage these days.
You see people using them to make overnight oats, parfaits, science experiments, and more.
But did you know they’re a great facilitator for indoor herb gardens?
Mason jars are not only cute, they’re also the perfect size to grow some easy herbs right in your house.
And because they are transparent, you can see a lot more of the growing and germination process than you would otherwise. It’s great to be able to check up on how your herbs are progressing, and it allows for some inexpensive kitchen décor.
Keep It Compact
Again, because mason jars are pretty small, you are keeping your herbs contained in a limited space. You don’t have to worry about them growing out of control and taking up your whole gardening tray or space.
Even though you can see right through the jar to the actual plant, it’s still a good idea to stick labels on the jars so you remember exactly which herb is in each container. You wouldn’t want to mix them up and end up with a strange flavor combination.
Don’t forget, you can always decorate your mason jars however you choose. If you’re not a fan of the original transparency, you can paint the outside of the jars, or add some ribbons. It’s really all up to you to be creative here.
The only must-have is, of course, potting soil. You want your herbs to have somewhere to grow, after all.
5. Bookshelf Garden
You can hold a lot more than just books on a bookshelf.
You probably already know this, as you most likely have things like DVDs, magazines, video games, and other hodgepodge lining your shelves.
One great way to utilize your bookshelf is to stock it with small pots full of herbs. This keeps your indoor herb garden all in one place, neat and tidy.
You don’t even have to use all the same containers. You can keep your lemongrass in a tea container, your thyme in a clay pot, and your cilantro in a mason jar.
Plus, you don’t have to go out and buy an apparatus to store your plants. You surely already have a bookshelf sitting around at home.
6. Rain Gutter Herb Garden
Have some rain gutters lying around? Wondering what you could possibly use them for?
Well, they work great for holding potting soil and thus creating the perfect indoor herb garden.
Grow whatever herbs you choose and attach the rain gutters to the walls in your kitchen, or even on the side of your refrigerator. You can use string to do this.
This may seem obvious, but make sure to clog both ends of the gutter pipe before you fill it with soil and seeds. This will help you avoid a huge mess.
The gutters will already have drainage holes at the bottom, but if you’re using a regular PVC pipe, you will have to install the holes yourself. Still, the extra work will be worth it.
7. Vertical Herb Garden
One last way to be inventive with your indoor herb garden is to stack the containers.
Having a vertical rather than horizontal garden will, of course, save you some room, and it will end up looking pretty cool, too.
There are lots of different ways to make a vertical herb garden, and you can use just about any container here. Obviously, the containers should be pretty small, because the goal is to best utilize the limited space you have.
A really neat way to begin a vertical garden is to use a shoe rack or shoe bag that you would normally hang over the closet door.
Even though these are usually made of fabric and are malleable, they are still sturdy enough for our purpose. The pockets work perfectly for filling with soil and creating a miniature herb garden right in the house.
Enjoy Your Indoor Herb Garden
Once you have decided what style herb garden you want to try, and have picked which herbs you want to grow first, it’s time to install the actual garden.
Now sit back, relax, and watch your herbs grow. You will have fresh and tasty final touches to your food and drinks, ready to pick in no time at all.
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