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Herbs

  Growing fresh herbs indoors is an easy way to add a better taste to any dish that uses them as well as having an added bonus of acting as sort of air freshener giving off their own unique scent. From eating them as they are to using them in dishes the uses are greatly varied as are their tastes and scents and looks. Growing them indoors is only a matter of choosing the right plants and pots and proper placement for the right amount of light.
From growing plants to be used as teas, garnishes, or snacks for fresher breath to using them in cooking and baking. Adding certain mint family plants to drinks or desserts such as cakes or ice cream they add a flavor and look for those special occasions. Chewing on a mint leaf  is a great substitute for chewing gum or eating candy that is easier on your teeth. Using fresh herbs gives food a more robust flavor then using the dried kinds plus they have more uses, since you can pick a stalk of one bruise the leaves then use that to rub upon foods to give them just a hint of a taste.
But the uses for them go beyond that to use them as decoration and for flora arrangements.

Lets start out with seed choices. There are numerous companies to go with, each promising that there seeds have certain qualities that others lack out on. I do not believe that this is necessarily true, they all produce the same product in the end a lot of the differences are up to the grower and not to the seed. The genetics of the seed are little to do with how will it grows if the person tending it falls to properly take care of it. Genetics play a role in how the plant/flowers look and how it grows, wither or not it can withstand the elements of which it is being placed, and to a lesser degree the quality of produce it will yield.

The role of choosing the correct seed for a plant you wish to grow can be a daunting task, either done through trial and error or collecting a soil sample and sending it off to a lab to get tested for quality. The other thing a person has to be careful of is impurities in the soil if they wish to grow root vegetables like potatoes, carrots, etc as this will draw the impurities out of the soil and into themselves the results can be quite bad if one is to eat it. So be mindful where you want to plant your  garden.








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Spring planting is about to begin here in Wisconsin, granted that the weather has been oddly unusually for this type of year. Neither the less it is not to early to your seedlings inside so that they have a head start when they are ready to be transplanted outdoors when the weather does finally decide to turn. In my experience an indoor greenhouse with a heated base that warms the soil and creates humidity inside vastly helps the seeds and seedlings get a  jump over the competition. There are many ways to do this, from the cheap plastic bottle cut in half with soil and seeds then the top placed back on under a heat lamp or my personal choice a seedling tray inside of an indoor greenhouse that has vents to let in/out air on top of a heat mat. The greenhouse and heat mat can speed up germination times by up to 50% though normally it only shaves off a fraction of of the time, in example a 10-15 day germination would sprout in as little as 7 days typically. So wither you are growing fruits or vegetables a head start on your planting will help you yield produce before others, staggering sowing times helps insure that you have plenty to harvest throughout the growing season and proper time for preserving the ones that you would like to keep for future use without the needed rush.