Organic Indoor Herbs: End of Week 5

Organic Indoor Herbs

   Yet another week has passed and my indoor garden is extremely aromatic due to the flowering and budding herbs that have been growing in there for the past five weeks. These herbs are completely relentless when it comes to growing, no wonder most people only recognize them as "weed-like" in their growth rate. I cannot begin to explain how amazing these herbs smell. The aroma is incredible, it is pretty much just having live potpourri. Everything I currently am growing is going to start to mature before I actually put it out in my outdoor garden because I want to have some living plants already to go when the last frost ends. If I timed everything right I should be having a continual harvest each week, which I am hoping I got right!

   It is always a brilliant idea if you are the home cook to maybe look into the idea of growing your own herbs, since buying them frequently can be quite costly in the long run. Not only will growing your own herbs let you have your very own herb paradise but it will also teach you about the herbs you are using in your recipes. To me it is important to know what you are eating and where it has come from. This is why I will always promote and grow everything I consume myself.

   Thanks again for reading my grow-log and staying up-to-date. Give gardening a try, maybe it will be a stress relief or your new hobby. Until next time folks....

¤ Keep it GREEN and Keep it GROWING

HyperSmash

Organic Outdoor Winter Kale and Parsley

Organic Outdoor Red Russian Kale

   I have been using the "cut and come again" technique I believe about four times now, and you can see the re-growth results on this plant here which has reproduced with fully nutritional leafy greens ready for the picking. This was the first cultivar of kale I grew when I started gardening so long ago. Kale is a very versatile leafy green that can be used in a variety of different culinary uses and different types of cuisine (i.e. European, American, English, Asian). The re-growth rate of this specific cultivar, for me at least, is about a week to a week and a half. Which is perfect for me because I use kale quite frequently for various favourite dishes of mine, such as ramen and baked chips. Kale is an extremely easy plant and grows throughout the winter, if you cover them with burlap as I did which keeps them warm and lets them mature but at a slower rate.

Organic Outdoor Giant Italian Parsley

   Parsley is a staple in our house hold, and I am sure it is a staple in many other house holds as well. This plant hold so extremely well in frost condition and throughout winter. This plant was the only thing left thriving in one of my outdoor raised garden beds. This cultivar is an extremely easily grow and holds up to anything, I would definitely recommend first time gardeners to grow this specific cultivar, because its so extremely easy to maintain and grow.

   This goes to show that there are some veggies and herbs out there that will thrive in winter conditions. Thanks again for reading and following/subscribing to my social media, it means so much to me and I always follow back! Until next time friends...


¤ Keep it GREEN and Keep it GROWING!


HyperSmash

Organic Indoor Herbs: End of Week 4

 Organic Indoor Herbs

    It is completely ridiculous to walk into my indoor garden because with your first step in, all you smell are the fresh herbs I have been nurturing since they were seeds. And I would do the whole process over and over again, because it is incredible. I am currently going to expand my culinary herbs and tea herbs so I can teach and share my knowledge of these precious little plants. There are so many uses, culinary wise and medicinal wise, for these herbs to be used that it is truly mind boggling. There are countries and villages all over the world that still use natural medicine over today's pharmaceuticals.

Organic Indoor Herbs

    Each and every herb I grow is extremely special to me because I first started tending an herb garden when I was an extremely young boy with my grandfather and uncles. So to me it is more than just a hobby it is a moment of time I love to enjoy with my loved ones, friend or family. It is an extremely useful thing, growing your own culinary herbs. I never find myself running to the market for the ever so forgotten cooking herbs that are always left once we rush out of the store.

    Thank you guys for reading my grow-log and following it as well. It is always an amazing thing to share my passion for gardening with you, the world. Keep a look out for my future posts, I will be blogging like a mad-man soon enough! It's been awesome to share my thoughts and information with you good folk. Until next time....

¤ Keep it GREEN and Keep it GROWING!



HyperSmash

Growing Healthy Organic Herbs For Your Cooking!

    I love the aroma of fresh garden herbs used in our kitchen. I would live in that smell if that was humanly possible. Everyone, everywhere uses herbs to cook and enhance the dish's flavour. I love using the harder to find strains of herbs because of the added effect they give to the dishes they are meant to be enhancing. I am currently propagating a few different breeds of herbs for my indoor garden. Everything you see is grown organically and I eventually will be making some seed packets to send out to any gardeners whom wish to grow these breeds. These herbs will be fully mature about late February to early March.

Christmas Basil - A Great Britain cross-bred Basil, mix of Thai and Genovese. Has a mulled-wine aroma which most people associate Christmas with, hence it's name.

German Thyme - I chose this specific breed because I can just not worry about it dying through Winter, for it is Winter hardy. My Lemon Thyme didn't make it this year so I am giving this breed a go.

Italian Oregano - The most popular Culinary Oregano because of the flavour not being over-powering to ones palette. A bit milder than Greek Oregano in my opinion.















    Nothing will ever beat fresh herbs, especially the smell of them. Potted herbs make great house decorations, just make sure to put it in a spot that gets enough fresh sunlight. When friends or relatives come over that pot of herbs will be a great conversation and maybe pass the idea of growing your own herbs to someone else.

Until next time, Keep it Green and Keep it Growing!

HyperSmash