So, maybe it’s not quite as dramatic as the title, but ever since the #StayHomeStaySafe rules have been imposed (for good reason), people, including myself, have begun to feel the affects of that social isolation.
There’s been many ways to combat this. Video-calling, letters, or distracting yourself by means of reading, exercising, cooking, or online classes. If you have the resources to do as such, I highly encourage it. These are trying times for us all.
That being said, my own experiences in this turbulent times, one aspect that I’m missing in these summer days is the freedom to go outside at leisure.
Which is why, for my part, my means at combating the social isolation is to stick to a routine and grow my own herb garden.
Online delivery has become tantamount to getting goods, due to high street retailers temporarily shutting down.
One such website that I gravitated towards is Bunches.co.uk, an online florist website that offers an array of hampers, houseplants and bouquets.
On such an occasion, they also offer a chance to grow your own herb garden (£27 Grow your own herb garden with free UK delivery), which is something I decided to try out as a means to pass the time during the lock down.
The kit itself comes with 7 sets of seeds – in this case, coriander, oregano, parsley, basil, chives, mint, and thyme – as well as 7 pastel planting pots and potting soil, which makes for a very neat, picturesque set-up.
It also came with a guide on when the growing cycles of each plant would happen, estimating an average of 8-12 weeks of being ready to fully harvest.
Bunches is particularly good at keying in the detail of watering cycles and how fast one plant may grow compared to another.
Having something to keep your mind off of the lock down can be trying when confined to four walls and a roof for a majority of the good weather, however I found that having even something small like keeping a herb garden can be good to keep your mind off of it.
Even planning recipes to use your future fresh herbs in can be fun if you also plant vegetables alongside it, or keeping a book of different ingredients to try.
And even after a few days, I must not be doing a bad job of letting these seeds grow…
…because day 4 is here, and there’s already a little bit of life. 🙂
