How to Grow an Indoor Outdoor Herb Garden

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 8 July 2022

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Growing fresh herbs is possibly one of the most satisfying harvests you’ll ever have - and you can do it indoors or outdoors! Connect With Rebecca Sears: Rebecca Sears is the Chief Gardening Guru at Ferry-Morse, where she’s responsible for making sure Ferry-Morse gardeners are more successful. Ferry-Morse Shop the Store As an exclusive for listeners, use code EPICPODCAST for 5% off your entire first order on our store, featuring our flagship Birdies Raised Beds. These are the original metal raised beds, lasting up to 5-10x longer than wooden beds, are ethically made in Australia, and have a customizable modular design. Shop now and get 5% off your first order. Get Our Books Looking for a beginner's guide to growing food in small spaces? Kevin’s book, Field Guide to Urban Gardening, explains the core, essential information that you'll need to grow plants, no matter where you live! He also wrote Grow Bag Gardening to provide you with specialized knowledge that can bring you success when growing in fabric pots. Order signed copies of Kevin’s books, plus more of his favorite titles in our store. More Resources Looking for more information? Follow us: Our Blog YouTube (Including our Epic Homesteading and Jacques in the Garden channels) Instagram (Including Epic Homesteading, Jacques, and Chris) TikTok Facebook Facebook Group Discord Server Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Here on the show, we always talk about easy ways to get into the garden, and there really
0:17.6	is no easier way than just picking a couple of your favorite herbs and starting out.
0:21.4	This is actually how my brother got into gardening.
0:23.6	He really liked basil, he grew these two or three huge basil plants over the course of
0:29.2	this first summer, Froze Pesto, and off he went.
0:33.8	Unfortunately, my brother has not continued his garden.
0:36.9	I've seen it recently.
0:37.9	Let's just say it needs a little improvement, but nevertheless, it still hooked me, and
0:42.0	we do have Rebecca Sears back on the show.
0:43.9	She's the Chief Gardening Guru at Ferry Morse.
0:47.0	Rebecca, when obviously you guys at Ferry Morse are thinking about getting people into
0:51.2	the garden just like we are.
0:53.8	What have you seen to be an effective way?
0:55.7	It sounds like herb gardens might be a way in.
0:58.2	Yeah, herb gardens, for sure, and really for a couple of reasons, one is that they're
1:02.7	generally pretty easy to grow, and I think it's really important when someone's starting
1:06.5	out that they select something that both they like, and they like to eat, and that it's
1:13.3	easy to grow, because it's successful as you are the first year you're more likely
1:17.7	to keep on going, and so this gives you a little boost to confidence when you start with
1:21.9	herbs.
1:22.9	The second reason is that they grow in a fairly small area, so you can grow them on a
1:27.5	window sill successfully, and so that makes a nice arrangement for a beginner gardening
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