Water requirements depend on indoor environment and location.

Fertilize sparingly with a slow release form, if at all.

Under lights, 14-16 hours under T-5 fluorescent lights (more expensive than T-8 lights, 2-3 times the output).

Well drained growing medium using soil-less mix and compost or Leafgro.

Easily grown indoors or outdoors, in pots or in the garden.First accounts of food use or in cooking date back to the Romans.In the Middle Ages, herbs were uses to preserve meat, mask odors, and were associated with witchcraft and paganism.Referenced in Indian, Chinese and Egyptian writings for medicinal uses.Lascaux cave paintings depict herbs dating back perhaps as much as 25,000 years!.History “An herb is the friend of physicians and the praise of cooks.” – Charlemagne Herbs Plants valued for their flavor, fragrance, medicinal and insecticidal qualities or economic or industrial use, or in the case of dyes, for the pigments they provide

What you will take away from today How to successfully grow herbs indoors Cultivation Soils/Growing medium Nutritional needs Insects and disease control Herbs to grow indoors Harvesting your bounty Sources of Information Indoor Herb Gardening Sub Title Mary Beth Culver, Gul Behsudi, and Sid Abel Howard Co., 2013 of Agriculture and Natural Resources

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