The Modern Planter: Reap the Perks of Your Own Herbal Garden
If you’re a passionate cook like me and you love experimenting with food, spice and everything nice, I’m sure you also like to copy almost everything great TV chefs do on their shows, from mixing fruit and meat to creating one’s own organic garden, be it a spacious or a humble one.
Well, haven’t you heard the news? – Nowadays with the invention of self-watering planters it’s never been easier to grow a few delicious herbs right there in the comfort of your kitchen and maybe even extend it to the balcony. The best thing about this modern planter is its innovative design and features that have made it possible for almost anyone to be able to grow plants: from the most green-thumbed gardeners to the most hopeless black-thumbed garden enthusiasts like myself. It’s all about eliminating the daily watering process and minimizing it to once on 10 days or more. Of course, there are those who have time and talent on their hands and even DIY their own planters, but let’s be realistic, some of us can barely remember to water the plants properly.
The process of turning your kitchen into an aromatic herb garden also requires for you to make sure you place your modern planters close to the window. Although herbs don’t require a lot of maintenance, they do need lots of sun. Placing them on the windowsill or simply someplace where they can absorb sun-rays would be perfect.
The last thing you should consider is what herbs you actually need and how you would prefer them to grow. Beside every kitchen garden’s classics (the basil, the cilantro and the rosemary), you should also consider planting some chives to spice things up, lavender for an aromatic therapy, a few exotic oregano leaves to bring Italy’s passion in your kitchen, fresh parsley so that you might be able to prepare any grandma’s soup and thyme to help you combat coughs and sore throats. With all these fresh ingredients around you, you can master cooking and become your family’s favorite chef in no time, ready to give famous chefs a run for their money.
Lastly, you should plan the growing process. If you plan to go with a bigger planter, you can plant more herbs in one place because they don’t mind growing in the same soil, which means putting oregano and parsley seeds in one planter for example, won’t eventually change how each of them tastes or smells. Some of you may already know this, but I believe that there are a few gardening dummies like me reading this and hopefully, with some new revolutionary inventions such as the modern planters, we could all grow different kinds of plants in small spaces.
Reference:
http://www.glowpear.com/urban-garden
