Growing herbs is an excellent way to experience the joy of harvesting food from your own garden, even if your garden is just a tiny pot on a window ledge. There are plenty of herb garden kits available, and buying a kit that includes seeds, soil, and pots makes it easy to get started.
Even Chia makes herb garden kits! Although if you're going with Chia, herbs seem like kind of a boring choice...
Another option would be to select a few pots, buy a bag of potting soil, and select plants or seeds from a nursery. That way you can customize your garden in any way you'd like. I've had great luck with basil and thyme, and sage and oregano are also great choices, but plant whatever you like to cook with - Or whatever you think smells good! In addition to being beautiful and delicious, your herb garden will also provide a delightful fragrance.
You could get yourself a fancy pot specifically designed for herbs. (Strawberries grow well in these, too!)
If you don't have a few mismatched old pots lying around (like I always seem to), you could pick up some simple terra cotta pots just about anywhere. (Check thrift stores for a really good deal!)
Of course there's no reason you can't be a little more creative about it. Your recycling bin could be an untapped treasure trove! (Be sure to pound a few holes in the bottom for drainage.)
As with any small pot - especially outside in warm weather - be sure to water your herbs at least once a day so they don't dry out. Most prefer full to part sun - check the label for specific instructions. Harvest any time and add fresh herbs to soups, salads, pasta, marinades, stir fries, you name it!
Well look at that. You're a gardener!
We are doing a veggie garden in our side garden this year. There is just too much hodge podge of perennials and grasses. I think the owners before us just planted the side, to watch it grow, like the chia pet! Roses mixed with the onion grass and peonies thrown in by the wind. It is beautiful but lots of work. Can't walk through the grasses to get to the roses. Nice garden blog! I have enjoyed reading it.
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