Here is the secret of growing fresh herbs all year long. Step 1 : go to the grocery store and look at the price of fresh herbs. Step 2 : watch the 2 short videos below.

Fresh herbs are more than just tasty. They have a lot of nutritional value. Growing your own fresh herbs is fast, simple, inexpensive, good for your health and good for the environment. No pesticides or herbicides necessary. For city folks : If you grow your fresh herbs in a sunny window or balcony greenhouse then you will also not have to worry about contaminants in the rain water.

The first video shows a very simple way to grow herbs like parsley, basil, cilantro/coriander, thyme and chives in a sunny window or in your garden. If you have a sunny window, you can grow fresh herbs all year long! Dave Epstein (Growing Wisdom) and Howard Anderson (Johnny’s Selected Seeds) shows you how to do it in minutes.

You don’t have to wait until fresh herbs are fully grown to harvest them. After the plant is about 4 weeks old you can start to pick off leaves to add to salads, sandwiches, sauces and soups. The plant will continue to grow and provide you with fresh herbs every day for months.

If you put the fresh herbs in your kitchen or in a pot just outside your door then it will be very easy for you to water them and harvest them.

Fresh, organic herbs also make a nice gift for your friends. Instead of taking flowers to a party you can take a bundle of fresh herbs or even a little pot of growing fresh herbs. You can show them how you take a little bit off the plant each day and this will encourage your friends to grow their own fresh herbs.

This next video from Garden Time TV shows how little space you need to grow a bunch of herbs together in one pot. The herbs do not pick of the taste of other herbs so it is fine to put them all in one pot.

Garden Time TV also offers a free gardening magazine Garden Time Magazine online that you can read online. Read the rest of this entry »