Growing Your Own Herb Garden
Herb gardens are fun to grow and come in all different shapes and sizes. You can grow herbs in the flower bed, in the vegetable garden plot or even in a pot. Although you can create a small dedicated space to grow your herbs in any type garden, it is much more worth it to designate your herbs to their own dedicated garden space. This is because when you are growing herbs, you will be picking them on a regular basis and will need to move around the garden. Below you will find some simple steps to growing your herb garden.
1. The first thing you need to do is decide where you want your herb garden to be located. An ideal spot would be closest to the kitchen door since this is where you will be using your herbs. This sometimes is not possible due to the fact that your herb garden does need to be in sunlight for at least 4 to 6 hours.
2. Next, you want to decide what herbs you are looking to grow. Depending on the number of herbs you decide to grow will determine how you will design your garden.
3. Designing your garden is the next step. For instance, growing rosemary and lavender can make a very pretty garden as well as calendula and chamomile. A useful tip is to keep the seeds in damp paper towels until they have sprouted, then you plant them.
4. Herbs tend to spread at a quick rate so edging the garden is necessary. This will keep your garden under control.
5. As mentioned above, you will be walking around your garden quite a bit so you will want to put down some type of pathway or stepping stones between your herbs. This will allow you to move between your herbs while harvesting them.
6. You should mulch your herb garden with bark which will save you on the task of weeding. Bark provides for a more attractive looking garden as well.
7. It is not necessary to use rich soil as herbs can grow just fine with average soil. It is important, however, that you keep your soil well drained as herbs do not grow well in very moist conditions.
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