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This is how your kitchen becomes a herb garden
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A herb garden in the kitchen – with it we not only give a kick to our dishes but also to the room. Spice it up: We reveal how you can best integrate the herbs.
Hmmm, but that smells! Do you smell that too? If we only think of the lush green of basil, the fine pattern of lemon thyme and the light woodiness of rosemary, we automatically smell their aromas. Herbs are a real treasure in the kitchen. Except that we rarely use them fresh at home. Why? A herb garden in your own four walls not only provides a natural room fragrance, but also brings a whole new aroma to the culinary arts.
Always on hand, you use the fresh leaves much more often. At the same time, the small plant buffet is a feast for the eyes with which we do something for sustainability: Frozen and individually packaged herbs from the supermarket produce more rubbish than taste and, if we are honest, even the pot variant from the vegetable shelf often ends up after being used once in the trash. Let’s leave it aside: With the right attitude and care (not only people, animals, but also plants need them!) A herb garden can thrive in the long term and provide us with fresh ingredients again and again.
Okay, now to work. There are various ways of creating a herb garden in your own kitchen. Two worries should be taken right at the beginning: thanks to the latest interior solutions, it fits into even the smallest kitchen. And meanwhile there are also ways and means for shady rooms, as we will see in a moment.
Spice it up: ideas for the kitchen herb garden
In addition to the classic variant of the windowsill herbs, there are creative ideas for growing the plants not only practically, but also decoratively. The classic herb shelf is particularly suitable for slightly larger, open kitchens in which one wall is free. There you can wonderfully dedicate an entire shelf to the greens. Also nice: there are now also special herb shelves that are equipped with intelligent lighting systems so that they really don’t lack anything.
An alternative that we already know from the indoor plant trend is the ladder. It is available in large and small, so that you can simply put it on the edge of a work surface and place small herb pots on it. A little tip: see-through pots made of glass, for example, look particularly chic on open herb shelves. The dark earth in connection with the lush green make for an eye-catcher in the kitchen and well, stressed cooks should also earth inside.
If you have less space, you can use a hanging solution. Herb pots can be easily attached to regular kitchen rods with hooks, on which, for example, cookware can also hang. If you have a sturdy ceiling, you can also put the plants in hanging pots at hand-height, so you can always have them at hand when you need them.
Finally, upcycling fans don’t miss out either: How about a herb garden in the serving trolley? You almost thought that the good piece was obsolete, but no, we’re already seeing a comeback with a cart full of plants. Also a great solution for open-plan kitchens, you can simply roll the cart to the dining table and season with herbs It doesn’t get any fresher.
A little tip: it is best to sow the plants yourself or buy them from a nursery so that they last a long time. Then nothing stands in the way of your own herb garden in the kitchen!