Your Kitchen Herbs Will Look Like Art With A Modern-Looking Grow Frame
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Planting herbs in your kitchen is a great way to add home-grown flavor to any dish. It tastes good, it smells good, and it looks good, but what if it could look like modern art? Prepare to turn your herb garden into an innovative way to bring wall art into your kitchen with a grow frame.
The Modern Sprout smart landscape grow frame adds a picture-perfect frame to your herb garden, featuring full-spectrum LED grow lights that make sure your herbs get the light they need to thrive. It comes with adjustable and timed light settings, including full sun and low-light modes that you can program with Modern Sprout’s smart app. Your ideal settings will depend on your plants’ light needs; the grow frame’s instructions recommend eight hours of low-medium brightness for low light plants, 12 hours of medium brightness for partial sun plants, and 16 hours of maximum intensity for full sun plants. And the LED lights have a natural white color and run at low temperatures, so you don’t have to worry about burning your herbs.
Modern Sprout’s grow frame isn’t just isn’t just functional — it’s also a work of art. It comes in two sizes and four color options. The larger 32-inch-wide landscape frame comes in black, white, and emerald green, and the smaller 20-inch square frame comes with the additional color option of mustard yellow.
How to plant herbs in a grow frame
The landscape grow frame holds up to seven 2-3 inch potted plants, but you can also plant your herbs directly in the frame’s watertight, rust-resistant planter. To prepare for planting, line the bottom with a layer of drainage material to relieve your plants of excess moisture. Next, add your soil of choice and plant your herbs, seeds, or clippings. Modern Sprout’s product instructions for the frame recommend planting before mounting it on your wall. You can then set up the Modern Sprout smart app to set a timer for the proper lighting for your herbs.
The best herbs to grow in your grow frame will be those that grow well in smaller indoor spaces. Bushier herbs like rosemary may be too big for this narrower herb garden, but there are plenty of herbs that are well-suited to indoor growing, like basil, dill, thyme, oregano, sage, and chives. While the grow frame will take care of lighting for you, it’s not self-watering, so you’ll still have to take your chosen herbs’ watering frequency needs into account when deciding what to plant.
Which herbs should you grow together in a grow frame?
Beyond considering which herbs to grow, you also have to consider how they’ll grow together. Even if you leave herbs in their original containers within the grow frame, they’ll all be under the same light source, so choose herbs that have similar sunlight requirements. For instance, dill and most oregano varieties require bright light, while chives and parsley can tolerate partial shade. If you’re placing herbs directly into the planter so they’re sharing soil, keep watering needs and companion planting in mind. Some herbs grow well together because of their similar ideal conditions, like basil and oregano or sage and thyme, or one herb might even support the flavor and growth of another, like marjoram and basil.
On the other hand, some herbs don’t mix well with others, like how sage and basil’s different light and watering needs mean these herbs don’t thrive together in the garden. And some herbs don’t mix well with others at all since their fast spread can overtake your herb garden, so steer clear of companion planting with mint, lemon balm, and catnip. Choose the right herbs for your grow frame, and you’ll be able to reap the delicious benefits in style!
