Category: Organic

This is You Won’t Regret It, a new weekly column featuring recommendations, tips, and unsolicited advice from the Mashable culture team.

Growing your own veggies or plants can be a total pain, especially if you only have a limited amount of space. Even if you’re a city dweller who somehow managed to get lucky and score a backyard with your place, making sure the soil is healthy enough to grow plants from is another obstacle to overcome — especially if you live in a major city where lead contamination might be a problem.

But you shouldn’t give up hope if you want to exercise your green thumb. There are plenty of alternatives to getting around these hurdles — the easiest of which is creating a herb garden on your windowsill. Read more…

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View More Tight on space for gardening? Try starting your own window sill herb patch