Indoor Herb Garden

I’m trying out an indoor herb garden, starting with dill. I just planted my seeds and watered them today. I realize that I mustn’t overwater plants, but since these are only seeds, should they be in constant moist soil? At least until something starts growing.

Hi,
yes you do want to keep the soil somewhat moist, so that it does not form a crust on top, or the little seedlings have a hard time breaking through.
The dill seeds should not be planted very deep anyway,
I used to use a spray bottle to moisten the soil every so often until the seeds sprouted.

I’m at school, and my teacher asked me that, I need help asap!

they fertalize it!!!!
i think

If I get a plant thats been growing with hydroponics can I switch it to dirt?

Roots of plants grown hydroponically are often swelled with water because they have constant access to moisture. They’re also very tender and prone to breakage. When transplanted to garden soil or potting soil, they often wilt immediately and go into shock. The solution is to first transfer the plant to a shallow pot with potting soil, flood the medium with water, preferably the same water used in the hydroponic setup with water-soluble fertilizer added. Put in a place with indirect light and keep the soil moist for a week watering twice a day. Slowly reduce the watering schedule over the course of the next week or two to the point where you can water every other day without wilting. Inspect the root system. Hopefully by now the roots have become fibrous and brown rather than white. Transfer to a regular pot, slowly increase the light levels and eventually it will behave like a normal plant. Some leaf and flower loss is normal.

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It was a garden for the indoors and you didnt need dirt only water, a tablet for growing and a light. You can grow herbs, cherry tomatoes, and flowers. You could just set it on your kitchen table and it is a new product. Any Guesses? (its not hydroponics) Its a new product but I cant catch the info commercial again.

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My daughter can earn some brownie patches over the summer. One is planting some seeds in a pot and starting them and then planting it outside when it gets big enough. It is fairly late in the growing season. What can I grow that we can plant and it will survive this late. We live in Indiana. Any ideas? She really wanted to do a flower, but I cannot think of any that we can plant late and them not die after the summer is over.
Another one we are doing is planting herbs and making an indoor herb garden. I know the basil will not grow indoors for long, but it is not a perennial. Is that right?
Any ideas would be very much appreciated.

Borage reseeds all summer so it would be happy being started later. It’s a herb, leaves taste cucumber-ish flowers taste sweet, but it’s quite hairy so interesting/weird to chew on. It’s an annual but seeds itself into most gardens for next year.

Some other plants that ‘pop up’ in my garden later in the year are; radishes (would work best if you had a cool spot outside for the first bit) they flower if you let them and i find their flowers are great pollinator attractors for my other veggies. Morning glories and nasturtiums (nasturtiums are edible taste kinda peppery) have been popping up aswell. my mom usually does a second pea planting at this time so you could do peas or possibly sweet peas.

i don’t have experience with an indoor herb garden; for basil seek out compact varieties cause common varieties get big -my lemon basil is 3feet tall right now. Garlic grows well inside (and it’s easy to find). Other plants to consider are rosemary, mint, thyme, dill, oregano. Sun will be essential for good growth and flavour be carefull not too water to much aswell.

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depending on how big your garden is,i had a co2 tank that i had filled at the local paint gun store cheap.are you growing what i think you are?lol.

Now I need to know how large the indoor plants need to be before transplanting them to a large outdoor pot. I have cayenne pepper plants and heirloom tomato plants.

Two true leaves (not just the seed leaves, the cotyledons). However, moving small plants to great big pots can be somewhat problematic. You’d probably be better off moving them to pots where the roots can fill at least 1/3 of the pot, then when the roots fill the pot, move to a larger pot.

It’s easy to overwater a big pot with little plants in it, and then the soil gets sour. When the plant roots hit the sour, acidic soil, they often die. Hence, shifting plants up through several sizes of pots is safer.

It looks like we’re finally getting something that resembles ‘winter’. Winds have howled all day, hail replacing sleet and snow on the way. Everyone is hungry. The food? On the windowsill. o my little friend, careful on that windowsill…… hail hits your tail and you’re blown around like a stubborn leaf… delicately maneouvering yourself, then the hunger finds you…
steady…
OOPS!
Do come back little ones, do come back - there’s food for all! This weather won’t last, but you need food on the go to stay warm while it’s like this.

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