Growing Herbs Indoors All Year-Round

If you love fresh spaghetti sauce or pesto, just fresh basil and other herbs all year! Sure, a beautiful garden of 1 X 4 window to get at least 4 or 5 hours of direct light from a window the sun will give you something to pinch here and there. Gardens with mint, rosemary, bay leaf, savory, oregano, chervil, sand thyme are some of the easiest to grow in this way. But what if you need the basil ... and much of it? Basil and cilantro need just a little "lighter, and really prefer 8 hours or more of direct light each day. Besides, if you want fresh pesto, just a little here and there not going to cut . This is what we can do about it. The goal is a cycle of vegetation, light (18 hours), with eight or more direct sunlight or artificial light. Whenever the light levels are low, giving a boost . Two or three fluorescent lights above your plants will greatly increase their growth and productivity. You can grow enough basil for a couple servings of pesto now and then, and still enough on hand. O, with a small metal halide light gives a larger area with better lighting. Of course you can produce an abundance of herbs you choose for your culinary and aromatic delights. Basil would take well to lighting conditions with a metal halide as is a Mediterranean, sun loving herb. It is said that some herbs grow better, or should be grown in poor soils. The herbal oils that make them special. Herbs grow very quickly, often the leaves and stems grow more frictional quickly than they can produce tasty essential oils. Often feels "basil grows better in poor soil" or "your basil will taste better if fertalize." What they really mean is "do not grow your basil too fast" ( I'm sorry to pick on basil). Growing up in a container, is a bit "different. The plan still needs food to grow, and when the food is you need fertalize. However, as discussed in the following two sections, all this is taken into account together with the growth habits of the herbs. Maintain growth rates in the initial test, I use a soil mix with just enough nutrients. Mix 2 parts peat to 1 part perlite, worm compost and add 20 percent. Adjust the pH of any mixture with peat moss by adding 2 teaspoons of hydrated lime per liter of soil mix. or can substitute peat with coconut coir or vermiculite, which do not require adjustment Ph. Finally, add 1 tablespoon of seaweed meal for each gallon of soil to add plant hormones and to benefit from micro-orgnisms something to eat. Use this mix whenever you transplant. If you feel that the top layer of soil and dry, you need water. Another way is to collect the container and check how heavy. Your herbs like their soil to drain quickly. You must have containers with holes in the bottom, and you need to add a couple of inches of perlite or gravel in the bottom of each package as a transplant. It is better to water deeply but less frequently. The tank water until the water comes out the bottom. When the herbs have been in any container for ten days or more, you need to start feeding them. In a bowl, the roots are stuck in a small space and quickly mine is free of nutrients, especially if it was easily in nutrients to begin. Maxsea Feed with half strength nutrient such as 16-16-16 every two weeks. If you really want to keep plants healthy also recommend 10 ml / gallon Thrive Alive B1 and Maxicrop liquid seaweed in every drop of water onto your plants. The B1 is vitamins and root hormones, and the seaweed is trace elements and growth hormones. This will help with the production of oil essetial. Finally, the water around the base of basil ... not like water in their leaves. Once the plants have grown enough leaves to be pinched without compromising growth, you can start using some herbs. This is approximately 4 to 6 weeks depending on the herbs. Herbs like basil are best when harvested before flowers open. You will have the highest level of oil when essetial harvest at the end of the dark period, assuming you do not leave lights on 24 hours a day.