Home Grown Herbs - Why not?

Home grown herbs are something that every single household can do. It is with complete amazement that folk can trundle down to the supermarket and buy expensive herbs in plastic casing for an incredible amount of money, which is inferior in every way to the herb you can easily grown at home. Why do people do this? Even if it was as good as homegrown herbs, why pay? What’s more, your homegrown herb is on your doorstep and as fresh as you can ever get. Need I go on?

Growing herbs is the easiest thing in the world and cost absolutely nothing but time to grow.

Grow herbs in the garden, greenhouse or on an allotment. Even if you haven’t got a garden or access to an allotment, use a friend’s garden and share the produce, why not? If they were friends surely they wouldn’t object. Start some off indoors on a windowsill. It can be in the kitchen dining room, bedroom or even the bathroom. Even if you haven’t got a garden use a friends’ garden and share the produce, why not? If they were friends surely they wouldn’t object.

The whole point is, everyone should be growing herbs and using them in their own cooking. Maybe it’s because the trend is not to do any home cooking anymore. The need for herbs is on the decrease because of fast food, microwave culture and snacks. Is this the beginning of the end of real natural food, it is for many in high geared westernised culture that gives people everything on a plate. Convenience is the fashion and cooking is an inconvenience.

It isn’t only the wonderfully fresh and natural produce that you benefit from by home growing herbs it is the whole process of culturing nature’s process and being part of it. Your stress levels by doing this will fall and you will be the most popular person in your neighbourhood from sharing surplus stocks of herbs. The healthy pastime of gardening and consuming the produce will also be a major benefit to you and your family. And not least, your shopping bills will be that much cheaper.

In the space of just five minutes you could have prepared and planted herbs that will be produce in the bank. Herbs basically look after themselves; this is how most of them have lived wild for thousands of years. All you need to do it make sure they do not dry out, that’s it! How simple is that? You will be amazed how robust herbs are and the rewards you get for just that initial five minutes. In a short time you can laugh at other people you now see picking prepacked herbs in the supermarket.

This blog is just to get you thinking about the possibilities and potential that you have in you home for creating something free and healthy, not least and education for you and more importantly your children, who will remember culturing herbs and experiencing the tastes, textures and scents for the rest of their lives. How do you think I got my enthusiasm?

Mustard and Cress - Child's Play

The first thing I ever grew indoors was mustard and cress. It was a school project that had to be carried out at home and i remember it was an exciting moment when the first seeds sprouted. If I remember rightly all I used was a damp bathroom flannel and a saucer. The greatest moment was the harvest and putting the produce into a sandwich, I'd been hooked on home growing herbs indoors every since.

Cress has properties that and stimulate the metabolism and kidney activity. It can also strengthen the stomach and gallbladder systems. It is widely believed in many medical circles that cress has a curative effect on joint disorders and gout. Alongside this, cress is also an important source of calcium, iron, vitamin A and vitamins C and E. All necessary as part of your daily requirments for a healthy diet.

Mustard and cress are often grown together and are perfect providing a spicy vibrant green garnish a salad addition of used in sandwiches like my first ecperience. The beauty is mustard adn cress are are available all year round if growm indoors and only require the minimum of space on a windowsill.

The mustard seedlings germinate around 2-4 days before the cress and this should be takeninto account when starting them off. You can get mustard and cress in little plastic container to grow on at home nowadays but they are usually overpriced compared with your own homegorwn results and the cost of the seeds fo this is nominal if purchased through mail order companies.

Thousands of years has seen cress being grown orinially coming from Persia. The is a folklore that Persians before baking bread they always has eat cress before the work begun.

Mustard and cress go very well with avocado or cucumber. The mustard was added to the cress as cress on its own just didn't work as a salad but the mustard spiced up the flavour.

Although Mustard and cress grows best in sunlight so next to a window is and ideal position to get the best results.

Here is a guide to growing them:

• Fold a few sheets of kitchen tissue to a suitable size to over a shallow dinner plate or tray and place it down flat.

• Slowly pour some water onto the kitchen tissue until there's enough water is totally soaked in. There shouldn't be any standing water.

• Sprinkle on some cress seeds over damp tissue covering the whole area and place the tray or plate here it will get the most sunlight.

• After ensuring the tissue keeps damp by added more water when need on a daily basis you should sprinkle on some mustard seeds in the same way as the cress.

• After around two weeks the mustard and cress should be fully grown and around 5 cm tall and ready to eat. The best method for harvesting is to use a pair of sharp scissors.

• Once gathered, rinse the cress under a cold water shake off the excess water and use of store an air-tight container. You will find that the mustard and cress will deteriate after a day or so so harvest when it is needed, it is better than storing.

Again, get the children involved in this as I was at a young age. They can use fun things to grow them in such as cotton wool sztuffed egg shells stuffed with faces painted on, they will sit happily in an egg cup on a windowsill. What an adventure for the children watching the hair grow, giving the egg face a haircut and eating the hair!

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