Five good reasons to grow your own herbs

Are you looking to grow your own herbs?

In this short post you will find a couple of great reasons why that is NOT a bad idea to grow your own herbs indoors… here are the benefits:

1. Enjoy how herbs smell and look

Herbs are very popular because they add color, fragrance and beauty to our homes.

Herbs simply look great in or around our home, especially basil, lavender, … but many others look great too. The smell of indoor herbs can be very nice too, for instance mint and basil fills our home with fragrance and greenery every day. Try stroking with your hands across their leaves and you will smell immediately what I mean.

Herbs don’t require much space and can be grown indoors, in fact, some herbs prefer the indoors like on a kitchen countertop or windowsill. Planted in pots they are a beautiful and aromatic addition to our homes.

Herbs are gorgeous plants that have one major benefit over standard house plants… you can pick them and use them in a way we don’t do with other plants: we can use them for cooking, medicinal herbs for healing, or simply for drinks like teas.
An indoor herb garden is beautiful, different and useful.

And you will get probably lots of comments and questions from your house guests: “Ah, I see you are growing your own herbs? Interesting…”.

2. An exciting new hobby

Growing herbs is a great and interesting challenge.

While some herbs are easy to grow, some are a little more challenging, making indoor herb gardening an interesting hobby without being frustrating; we will make sure that won’t happen.

Every time you will see your new herbs beginning to sprout, you will feel satisfaction and excitement! There is absolutely something special about learning to grow and take care of herbs. You will feel connected to nature. That is why people love the Beginner’s Herb Gardening Challenge so much.

3. Always fresh herbs to flavor food and drinks

Growing herbs in your home, will allow you to harvest only what you need to flavor food and drinks, whenever you need or want.
Fresh herbs are also more flavorful than the dried herbs you can buy, and then we don’t even mention the savings you will make (herbs in the store are quite expensive).

It is a great feeling to clip a few sprigs of yourself-grown herbs whenever you need to add them to your dish.

Growing spearmint to start (mentha suaveolens, like on picture below) is a great choice, because we use it in drinks all year round. Our favourite!

4. Herbs are healthy

Fresh herbs can help boost the health content of your dishes. While it is known that lots of herbs can also be used for medicinal purposes, research shows that indoor plants may help brighten your mood, reduce stress and clean the air too.

Growing your own herbs indoors is a great way to maintain that spiritual connection to nature by growing at least a little bit of your own food.

5. Growing herbs is inexpensive

Fresh herbs can be quite expensive in the store for what you actually get.
Therefor it is just a great idea to grow your own herbs. You can grow your own fresh herbs for just a few bucks! All you need is a sunny window and some great information to get you started.

For beginner gardeners, it can also serve as an inexpensive entry into more expensive outdoor gardening.

Why do you grow your own herbs?

Now,

what about you?

We really like to learn about all the different reasons people may have to start an amazing herb garden. Share your thoughts in the comments below.