If I buy my fresh Herbs at a Supermarket and use them in my cooking I am mostly disappointed with the quality and the result.

The longer it is between picking the herb from the garden and you using it significantly impacts on the flavor.

The herbs I currently use come from a couple of places, on the deck outside the kitchen and also down the steps in an area behind my workshop.

As its winter here in Sydney Australia, the plants are not too crash hot now, but in summer they can be good. I just use normal soil here.

I have had some great crops using the Hydroponics System I installed about 12 months ago. The Lemon Grass comes from a small pot I got as a gift and the basil is just excellent.

Why is he telling us all of this, you are probably asking?

Leaving the cook bench and going outside to pick some of the great fresh herbs I have, is a real nuisance, So, as you can see - a bit of a defect in the old character.

My ideal it seems is to be able to decide I need say some parsley and just lean over with my scissors and cut a bunch from a pot in the kitchen window - from my very own - Indoor Herb Garden.

The solution may well be to go out and buy a commercially developed product that will do the job for me. I have thought about this, but have heard some bad reports on them, especially about one with a lamp system which may be a bit noisy. Another one is meant to be good but is not for sale down here.

Why reinvent the wheel? I have been very successful with the Hydroponics System, so, I might as well try and do the same inside and have a purpose built Indoor Herb Garden.

This will be the tale of my journey to make an Indoor Herb Garden.

As an added bonus, it may well help me to understand how the internet works, as I keep a log of my attempt.

This will not only be useful to Australians, but should translate to anywhere people live in houses or apartments.

I imagine that some “experts” will say this is not going to work, but I am going to give it my BEST SHOT !

So, get behind me on this!