How can we help Mediterranean herbs survive the winter on a windowsill? I'd love to have a pot of common sage on the balcony during the summer, but it can't survive in a pot this far north, where its roots will freeze if they're kept above ground. On the other hand, keeping them warm in the relatively low-light conditions of the windowsill seems problematic, too.
Any ideas about how to overwinter them more successfully?
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.Use LED growth lamps.
Talk to people who grow plants indoors for one reason or another.
No, I don't yet but I'm aware that herbs may be a gateway plant that leads inexorably to gardening.
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Let's find more gateways, then!
I have cats, and not many windows that the cats can have access to. So I only grow herbs outside in the spring/summer/fall.
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Get a small grow-light on Amazon; here is one that goes for less than $20USD
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