How to Grow an Indoor Herb Tea Garden

Find which window of your living space will have the most amount of sun during each season. Plan to move your herb tea garden as the sun light quality changes.

Consider what flavors of herb tea you find the most pleasing for drinking, and the ones you think sound interesting. Examples of herbs used to make tea include peppermint, rosemary, sage, spearmint, catnip, ginger, lemon balm, thyme, dandelion and holy basil. Search medical report sites such as PubMed for herbs proven to have medicinal value.

Compile a list of the plants you want in your indoor herb tea garden. Study the most effective way to plant each herb you choose.

Obtain a container that is appropriate for each herb you have chosen. Consider plant container choices such as window boxes, hanging baskets or even teacups.

Place the trays in the location with the best sunlight, if using containers that have a drain. Place the plant containers on the trays. Place small stones on the bottom of each planter and set more stones evenly across the trays. Fill the plant containers up with the potting soil until around 2 inches to ½ inch from the top. If using containers without a drain, don't use the trays.

Plant seeds in accordance with the seed packet directions. Transplant already started plants into containers and add additional soil if necessary. Water the soil, making it saturated but not so much that the soil turns to mud.

Water each plant according to the specific method suggested for it, as may be found from a garden center, online, in gardening books or on the back of a seed packet. Use the full-spectrum light if necessary, for cloudy days.

Separate the seedlings, after the seeds have sprouted, to the proper spacing when they reach the height mentioned on the seed packet for transplanting.