Herb Garden Kits - The Surprising Tip to Start Herb Garden Plants on Overdrive

Herb garden kits. Successful herb gardeners secret weapon? Who knew? In case you are not familiar with growing kits, here's a basic description of what they are and how they work. A garden kit normally includes a plastic or peat tray, sometimes divided into sections, some potting soil, herbal seeds, and a clear plastic dome or cover.

Why herb growing kits work

Although garden kits are often marketed to the beginner, they are an example of how keeping a task simple and removing possible problems at the start of a project, is often the wisest way forward even for an expert herb gardener. Because the soil supplied in a herb garden kit is dry and packed in an airtight bag, the problem of introducing mold or fungus as you start herb garden planting, is decreased significantly.

Once your seeds are planted, a gentle misting is all that's required. The simple clear plastic dome, which snaps over the seed tray, prevents evaporation. Once placed on a sunny windowsill or counter top, you will soon notice that the kit creates its own little environment within the clear cover. Really, it's a tiny little climate within the world under the dome.

After your initial misting or moistening of the soil in the tray, water evaporates from the soil and rises to the top of the dome, where it condenses and forms water droplets. The droplets of water gently "rain" back down to the soil and seeds in the tray. This is exactly the way weather systems are created on Earth. (Water from lakes and oceans evaporates and rises to the top of our planet's atmosphere, where it gathers to form clouds, and falls back to Earth as rain.) Because your herbs are now set to autopilot and in effect, are caring for themselves, growth is stimulated quickly and very effectively.

How herb garden kits give you a jump on spring for your outdoor herb garden

If you start your herbs in a kit in late winter or very early spring, because they grow so effectively with a minimum of stress to the seedlings, by the time the season for outdoor gardening arrives, your herbs in the garden kit, are literally busting out all over. To an observer walking by your yard in early spring, it seems as if you have magically summoned a thriving and somehow mature "instant garden."

Although I won't cover it here today, there are some very special tips for really ramping up your home herb garden using herb garden kits. These tips turn a good method, into a great method for getting a jump on spring herb garden plants.