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Growing your herbs indoors comes with a plethora of advantages, the main examples being the lack of pests nibbling at your greenery and not having to weed your plants (unless it’s in a windowsill by the garden and you happen to be super unlucky). Being able to to take them from the cradle to the grave during cooking gives you that unique taste which will keep people coming back for more.

Once of the first herbs I planted for the summer months was coriander, the leaves are delicious in curry dishes and the seeds have a sweet-smelling oil. Once I’d put it in the ground, I assumed everything would be fine and I’d harvest it every now and again before cooking. Little did I know, the plant had different plans as I now have a thick stalked flowery plant in place of the soft, waxy leaves I had before.