herb garden

Planning Your Herb Garden

This article is dedicated to planning a successful herb garden. If you have planted herb gardens in previous years this will help to revamp and refresh one already have. If you are planning an inside herb garden, since you control the atmosphere, you can choose whatever you like. My suggestion here would be to select a theme for your herb garden. Be realistic about your plants. Be sure that the herb garden site is level and sheltered from wind. You will want your herb garden to complement your house and garden. If you are creating a formal herb garden you will need to plant in straight lines and geometric shapes framing them with low hedges and paths. In an informal herb garden you can plant more flowing, curved beds and walkways. Now it’s time to decide on which herbs to plant. This makes the herb gardening more manageable.

Situate each plant according to height for maximum enjoyment of your herb garden. Whether you want to plant an herb garden for culinary purposes or to use as medicinal healing. You need to know how to first begin to plant your garden. Container gardening also allows you to bring in your herb garden during bad storms and not worry about your plants drowning should you get hit by a bad rain storm.

Container Gardening:

When I use to do container gardening I would place about 4-5 herbs in one container at one time I had 6 containers, hence why I now use a space in my yard for my garden. Container gardening is great if you are just starting out or if you cannot plant in your yard or you live in an apartment. You do not want to use chemicals in your herb or vegetable garden as you will be eating these plants. Once you have purchased your containers, soil and herbs you need to plant them as soon as possible as the soil the plants are planted in dry out quickly.

You want to place the plants about 6 inches apart so depending on the size of your container will depend on how many herbs you plant in each container. Place the gardening soil in the container then place the plants still in their containers on the soil to determine how you want to plant them. Place a small amount of water into the hole and place the herb into the hole. Be sure to water your herb garden, to check if they need water test the soil if it feels dry water, if its still moist check it again the next day.

Yard Garden:

Take a walk around your yard to see where you want to plant your herb garden. Hand shovel a container of water a knee pad your herbs a notebook to write down where each herb is and what day you planted it. When you are planting the herbs be sure to plant them about 1-2 inches deep and add water to the hole before adding the herb.