For those of you who have a hobby, planting herbs can be one of your alternatives in choosing the type of plant. In addition to channeling hobbies, choosing herbal plants can also give you various benefits as traditional medicine, and can be used as a cooking material. Most herbal plants are grown outdoors (outdoors) so for you who intend to grow herbs inside the house there are a few things to pay attention to. Following from Real Simple there are some explanations related to things to pay attention to before treating indoor herbal plants following their harvesting.

1.  Exposure To Sunlight

Plants generally need more than 6 hours of sunlight per day. Therefore, for the plant to be exposed to sunlight, you should place the plant near the window or open space exposed by sunlight.

2.  Watering

Many people believe that if you regularly water plants, they will grow quickly. However, it should be noted that several types of herbal plants prefer soil on the drier side. Therefore, before taking care of such plants, it is adviseable to know how much water they need.

3.  Pollution

For herbal plants to grow with fertile use of fertilizer needs to be paid attention. You should use fertilizer once a week during the cold season with water-soluble fertilizers diluted into 1/4 of the container listed on the packaging.

4.  Hervesting Periode

The harvest time of the herbal plant is less than when the plant has reached 15 cm, the correct harvesting time can keep the plant growing fertile.

Source : lifestyle.kompas.com