Planning Your Home Herb Garden
Saturday, October 17th, 2009 | Author: admin
It can be difficult to know where to start when planning your first home herb garden. While you may have your own creative flair and design skills (or maybe not), you need to keep in mind what is best for the plant.
You want to grow your herb in the best possible conditions with regard to soil, water, air and sunlight. As your herbs grow, you may notice a tendency for them to struggle. For example if a plant is looking limp it may not be getting enough sunlight in which case you should move it to a more suitable position, or maybe it needs more nutrients, if so you can mix plant food to the water or use a fertilizer. Changes should be made in order to maintain the health of your herbs, this will allow your plants to continue to thrive.
For this reason I would recommend starting with just a few herbs in pots (this can be indoors or outdoors), so that they can be moved around easily. Make sure the pots have good drainage and when planting seeds, do not plant them too deep. Read up on the information provided on the seed packets or on the little information cards that are provided when buying potted herbs.
Most herbs are really quite resilient and you will soon get used to which ones prefer which conditions. Prune them regularly taking off dead leaves. Simply by learning about them and monitoring them you will be able to enjoy them for years to come.
INDOOR HOME HERB GARDEN
An indoor herb garden has the advantage of allowing you to grow your herbs all year round.
For begin
ners, the windowsill is a great place to set up an indoor home herb garden, a sunny kitchen windowsill would be absolutely ideal if you intend to use your herbs for cooking.
Shop around for attractive pots that will compliment your home decor. Multiple pot trays are a favourite of mine, this allows you to have several herbs grouped together.
OUTDOOR HOME HERB GARDEN
If you want a large, varied home herb garden you may want to plant outside. Bear in mind the time of year you are planting, Rosemary will grow all year round, whereas Basil is more of a summer herb, so you wouldn’t plant it outside until perhaps the spring. If you are growing your herbs from seed you will probably start them off indoors and then transfer them outside at the appropriate time of year provided that they are fairly established.
You can use herbs for decorative purposes in your garden, for instance you could have a large pot with an ornamental citrus fruit tree, and plant herbs around the base. If you have bare walls you could plant creeping thyme which has red flowers when it blooms, and is a lovely alternative to ivy. You can plant this anywhere you would normally plant a creeper.
Herbs can have a practical role to play: Herbs from the mint family (notably peppermint and spearmint) have been used for pest control, repelling mice, ants, lice, flies and moths.
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