How to Use Herb Garden Grow Lights
The use herb garden grow lights will enable you to have a beautiful and bountiful herb garden year round. An herb garden is handy to provide aromatherapy in your home with the wonderful aromas from the flowers. You can use your herb garden for cooking family recipes or even for medicinal and relaxing teas. How do you use herb garden grow lights for your indoor herb garden? Does this Spark an idea?
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Things You'll Need
- Indoor grow lights
- Indoor herb garden
- Electrical outlet
- Power strip
- Kitchen timer
Instructions
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Remove all mail, newspapers, magazines and any other items that are combustible from around your indoor herb garden area. Anything that can catch fire should not be near your herb gardening area in your home.
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Check the indoor grow lights for your herb garden to be certain that all the bulbs are in functioning order. Replace any bulbs that are burned out with new grow light bulbs.
(see warnings below)
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Plug in a power strip into the electrical outlet for your indoor grow lights for your indoor herb garden. Only plug the indoor grow lights to the power strip.
(see warnings below)
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Set a kitchen timer for 6 to 12 hours. You should only leave your grow lights on for the length of time that each specific type of plant in your herb garden needs to grow. Go by the longest amount of light needed among the plant varieties you have in your indoor herb garden.
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Water your herb garden plants more often when you use indoor grow lights to keep the heat from drying out the soil.
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Tips & Warnings
Plants need times of darkness to absorb nutrients they collected during daylight hours.
You never want to run indoor grow lights with a bulb burned out. This can pose a fire hazard from the indoor grow lights in your home.
Never plug extension cords into power strips because of the fire hazard.
