Containers for herbs indoor

Herbs at hand

In the age of the city garden, there are few who have not yet converted to house cultivation.
Among the easiest and most popular are the aromatic plants, so dear to the kitchen. Herbs are among the most popular plants in confined spaces and in small apartments, accomplices many recipes, which involve the use in different dishes and no preventive conservation, but directly stricken vessel.

A drive towards the biological, the designer support with attractive products that facilitate care.

The trend are pots and containers that allow to have scissors and accessories for collection built-in. This reduces the space and the products become free standing, beautiful even to give away. In some cases, however, there is even the way to preserve the aromatic herbs cut, so as to limit also the waste.

Containers of design for aromatics

Herb Stand Jakob Heiberg is for example a curious structure realized for Normann Copenhagen composed of two vases hinged on a central pin, which also acts as scissors holder.
The two containers have a removable cup at the base that allows you to manage the watering without wetting the surface. Small and perfect size for small sills, lends itself well both in internal spaces and as a green area for balconies and terraces.

Among the most modern containers for herbs, we find Cocoon, a small suspended structure that can simultaneously accommodate seedlings and fresh fruit. The herbs are positioned at the top and can be watered without problems, thanks to the porous structure of the ceramic, able to absorb small amounts of water in excess.
Cocoon, designed by designer Måns Salomonsen, a young student of Stenebyskolan University, can be attached to the ceiling by cables and is available in two versions: white ceramic raw or polished.



Royal KVB instead proposes a small miniature garden, designed by Office originair.
Printed in melamine, Herb Garden, winner of the Dutch Design Award 2008, can be held either in the kitchen, on the windowsill. Including scissors.

Vegetable garden at home and on the balcony

A sort of garden in the house, however, are the technological vases Prepara.
Directly designed by engineers at NASA, they are powered by electricity and allow to cultivate any aromatic plant throughout the year. Plants can grow strong and healthy, without coming into contact with possible parasites and with an increase almost double if compared with traditional cultivation methods. How do they work? The seeds should be placed in a special system made of sponge fingers, covered with transparent covers, provided in the cultivation kit. All this can be placed in the light, on the windowsill or balcony: the plants, as they sprout, receive the nutrients already present within the vessel.
The jars by Prepara cost $ 39.95, and can be purchased on Prepara.com .

Containers for indoor herbs

If you are not so technological and you have some space left on the balcony, then Herbladder, by Lovorika Banovic is the right choice for you.
This modern container consists of three pots positioned on a kind of ladder, which is hooked to the wall, thus occupying less space. If, however, you can place it in the kitchen, thanks to its configuration, with simple candles, it turns into a nice bright point.

If you are of those who prefer to buy the herbs at the supermarket, Tescoma has created a resistant plastic container, from the line Sense, ideal for keeping longer in the fridge fresh herbs and green.
The choice is yours.

How to grow herbs on the balcony or indoor

Among the most common and cultivated herbs even in confined spaces, there are basil, mint, thyme, oregano, marjoram, sage and lemon balm. These can be planted in both modern containers, both in simple flower pot saucers or decorative vases, according to taste and space.
The plants purchased at the green department in supermarkets can be placed in jars perforated at the bottom, filled with river sand, thin and clean, peat and topsoil, in order to create the right mix of drainage that avoids risky stagnation.
Herbs should be watered thoroughly.

When pouring the water, not on the leaves, but on the roots, so that they do not get wet, you must see the water almost out of the vase. Especially the first watering must be abundant, then are gradually thinned out. Attentive to certain varieties such as rosemary, which doesn't like to be watered too often.

As for the climate, in areas with mild climate, the herbs can easily be grown outdoors, even with the arrival of spring, either in pots or in the ground.
During the summer, when the temperature rises above 27 to 30 degrees, it is good that the plants are placed in areas protected from the direct rays of the sun of the hottest hours. The watering, in this case, even when it comes to plants on balcony, should be daily and must be done in the hours of sunset, when the thermal shock is less and the ground releases the heat gained during the day.

Watch out for excesses. The leaves can burn or dry for too much water. This means that the roots are rotting. Better then change jar, take larger and reduce the frequency of watering.