by Jesse Meradz
Some herbs can be grown quite easily indoors and it is well worth while to install an indoor window box in the kitchen to have these handy during the winter. The best subjects are happily among those we use most: chives, mint and parsley. You can grow them from seed or dig up a plant from the garden and put it in the indoor window box. There are on the market some lightweight plastic troughs which are clean for indoors and not unpleasant in appearance.
Leave it there until it is obvious that the majority of the seeds have germinated and then bring out into the light, again in a warm place. When the little seedlings are only an inch or so high cut them with scissors as you need them, but do not let them get too mature. Keep sowing successions every week or two and you will always have some ready and fresh for salads, sandwiches and garnishes.
All growing plants have something attractive about them, and if this attraction can be accompanied by a useful service, then we gain double value. And besides being natural bargain hunters, all women are cooks, either by choice or by necessity so if they can grow something themselves for the pot without necessarily possessing a vegetable garden, they can bask in the twin glows of virtue and achievement.
As children most of us have at one time or another sprinkled mustard and cress seeds on damp flannel and have scarcely dared close our eyes at night for the excitement of finding them green and germinating on the next morning. Yet this childish game can so well be continued in later life and we can have at little cost in time, trouble or even cash a continuity of crop which will always be useful to us, regardless of diet.
By trial and error you will soon find how many seeds should be sown for a single meal or helping, for unlike mustard and cress this is seldom a crop that can be used with a large number of dishes. On the other hand, they make an excellent and welcome addition to soups, stews and salads, and once tried many uses can be found for them.
Alternatively, give an entire container over to mint, perhaps of several different kinds, and permit the roots to take over completely.
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