Recycled Indoor Herb Garden

It's getting pretty hot here in the Arizona desert. Actually, it's been pretty hot for over a month already! My poor little garden is shriveling in this heat. My tomatoes are looking more like sun-dried tomatoes. My strawberries look like tiny dehydrated strawberries. I thought I would rescue my herb garden before I had a ton of dried up herbs. I have always wanted a nice indoor herb garden in my kitchen. One with a good variety of herbs so that I would always have several choices when preparing meals.

Now, what to put all of these herbs into? I certainly didn't want to go out and buy a bunch of little pots. So I threw around a few ideas and then it hit me. I have a ton of formula cans lying around and they would be perfect! I hate throwing things like that away. Especially jars, bottles, boxes etc. I try to re-use them for craft storage, screws and nails, crayons, beans, grains, pasta, snacks etc. As it turns out, they ended up being perfect for my little indoor herb garden. The formula cans are the perfect size to simply slip the herbs into. I used my bigger cans to transplant my basil and thyme which grow rapidly and I use frequently. The small cans will contain the herbs so they don't take over my kitchen. I bought a few new herbs to add to the family

and the little pots slip perfectly into the cans leaving an inch on the bottom for drainage.