Have Fun With A Chia Herb Garden At Home

Enthusiastic beginner herb gardeners can grow and harvest their own herbs quickly and have lots of fun on the way by growing their own chia – which means small – herb garden. This is a patented herb growing system that comes in a kit form with easy step-by-step instructions to successfully grow this type of container herb garden.

A chia herb garden kit contains small terra cotta pots, unpainted to avoid toxic paints and varnishes, and a saucer for each pot. Additionally, you can expect to find a good mix of culinary and medicinal herb seeds which are suitable for this system: sweet basil, parsley, dill, chives, sweet marjoram and cilantro.

The other components of the chia herb garden system include special growing sponges, you know those green ones which is the seed growing medium, liners to prevent water leakage from the terra cotta saucers, plant name markers, and last but not least, the direction booklet. The booklet contains important and exact directions to
grow your beautiful indoor container herb garden from seed to maturity and happy harvesting.

It is so simple getting started with this system of container herb gardening. You just moisten the growing sponges thoroughly and place one in each pot. You then choose  one variety of seed per pot and sprinkle the seeds on the surface of the growing sponge.

The last step involves frequent watering and you could see the seeds sprout pretty quickly, sometimes even in only four days’ time – amazing! Be careful not to keep the growing sponges soaking wet, only maintain the terra cotta pots fairly humid. An easy way to do this is to cover just the top of the pot with plastic.

Your chia herb garden can be placed indoor or outdoors, and you may also transplant your herb plants directly into the soil if you wish. Many herb gardeners enjoy tending to their potted herb plants inside their homes on a sunny windowsill or warm spot, and having the plants near by also makes it easy to pinch off some leaves needed for that special tasty dish.

It is fun to see your newly sown seeds germinate and sprout their first leaves. But if you want to skip even the setting up and the sowing process of a chia herb garden, you can just buy one already growing. This enables you to benefit from an attractive edible and medicinal herb garden immediately – if you don’t forget to water the herb plants!

The chia herb pots can be attractively arranged as you wish in many spots, be it your kitchen windowsill, a sunny patio, or a garden wall. As the pots are small they are easily transportable to a new spot and re-arranged in a new display at any time. And if you ever want to transplant the herb plants elsewhere, just remove the plant and sponge as is and plant it in the new location – very easy!