Hello everybody! I just wanted to record this really quick to join in the National Gardening Week fun. And gotta thank of course Erica's little Welsh garden and Liz Zorab from the Biter of Farm. The Biter? Yeah, is it Biter of Biter? I'm not sure. But I figured I'd throw my little channel into the mix here and tell you why I do this. Unfortunately I currently don't have a full garden. I've got a large bay window and my small window shelf over in the kitchen area that has my orchids in it. But I do this because the main reason I think I actually started this was because we can't have pets where we live currently. And so I needed something to make me happy that kind of takes the place of pets. And so I decided to adopt a bunch of herbs and plants as my new pets in a way. That's essentially the reason I think I started doing this. Because I've only been doing it for the last four or five years since we've been living in this flat. And yeah, I mean it's the hardest thing that I've had to deal with being over here in some ways is not being able to hold family of course but also not having any pets. And we're definitely still looking at wanting to move from where we're at in order to get a full garden and have pets and things like that. But in the meantime I've got my lovely little herb garden over here and I put all my love into them and get them to grow beautifully. And they're all looking fabulous right now with a couple of small exceptions. I've had to replant a cup of mint and one other guy too. I'm going to have to replant some of the time and the chocolate mint. Both the mint didn't do good because they planted them too early. And they just didn't like the cold snap that happened. So I had to start over again with them. And who's the other guy? I can't see him. Oh the Tulsi basil. The Tulsi basil didn't like it either so I had to replant the Tulsi basil as well. Otherwise everybody else is looking fabulous. They're huge right now. I'm going to do my May update soon and you'll be able to see all these guys looking marvelous. I think the main thing about the herbs is if you're going to start them in the winter you have to have bro lights and you have to have possibly a heating pad because herbs most of them love additional amount of heat and they love having a good amount of light. Obviously there's ranges to that. You don't want to go too hot. If it's getting over 80 degrees Fahrenheit which I think is around 30 to 28 degrees Celsius area then you're getting to an area where it's too hot and maybe you want to put them more in an area that's not going to overheat. And the same thing with the sun it's like they can absorb tons of sun. If you're going to have your bro lights on them you can go 12 hours to 16 hours when they're first starting. So I mean you can put tons of sun on them and they will love it. Otherwise if you are getting your herbs going once they've gotten started and they've got you know a little bit like an inch of growth you can cut the light down to you know 10 hours to 12 hours. And that's that'll that'll be fine under grow lights if you're but in the regular hours of regular sun if you're not using grow lights you want to get them as much as possible because they will just soak it up and they will love it and they'll grow bigger because they have lots of sun. So get them as much exposure as you can when it's in the spring the summer months and they will love you for it. So that's my biggest thing with herbs is making sure they get lots of light and then also watch out for over watering. Some can handle tons of water. My deal I can water that sucker every day and he's happy. But other ones like the basil until it gets really big it still doesn't like necessarily. Getting watered every day and if I do water it every day just very little amount so just be very careful because over watering is one of the biggest culprits when you're going to lose an herb. So just be careful with that I think. Yeah those are the main things watch out for over watering lots and lots of light and there's other variables around that of course you're given them plant food and different in such and want to rotate them so they don't grow to one direction that's if you're growing them indoors like I do. If you grow them in a planter how are you going to rotate them? That's you know hey but that's that's that's that's my little tip for the day. If you want any more herb information you know ask me questions and other things like that but happy national gardening week folks have a good one.