Growing Your Own Herbs

If you are not the type of person that they spend their time managing an elaborate fruit or vegetable garden will, you might consider planting and maintaining an herb garden. While the product might not seem important, you'll still enjoy the constant availability of fresh, delicious herbs to flavor your meals with you.

First you'll want the herbs that you choose plants. You might have a hard time doing so because of the large scope of herbs available. But the best way to choose is to do what I did, only on what you are doing in your kitchen. By planting your own collection of this herb, you can save money buying from the supermarket, while with the added benefit of freshness. Some of the herbs You might also start with rosemary, sage, basil, dill, mint, chives and parsley among others.

In choosing to put a face to your herb garden, you should be aware that the floor should have very good drainage. If the soil is watered and stays completely saturated, You have no chance of ever growing a healthy plant. One of the best ways to remedy the drainage problem is to dig a foot deep in the ground and put a layer of crushed rocks are mainly replacing the soil. In this way, all that to escape the water, that is saving your plants.

When you are ready to begin planting herbs, you might be tempted to buy the expensive plants from the store. However, with herbs it is much easier to grow them from seed than it is with other plants. Therefore, you can save a bundle of money by sticking with seed packets. Some herbs grow at a dangerously fast pace. For example, if you plant a coin in an open space, then it will take over your entire garden in a matter of days. The best way to prevent this problem is to allow the more aggressive plants in pots plant (with drainage holes in the ground, of course).

If it is time to harvest the herbs you have worked so hard on, it can be fatal to take away your plant too much. If your plant is not well established, it is not healthy, everyone is going to take at all, even if it does not look like her with them. You should wait for your investment is well founded for at least several months before the start of all the leaves. Definitely worth the wait, because by growing unabated your plant is to produce healthy for years to come.

Once you have your delicious crop grown herbs, you want to use in the kitchen. Why else would you have grown them? Well first the process begins with drying them out. This is easily achieved by a baking tray and bake it 170 degrees Fahrenheit for 2-4 hours. After sufficiently dried to be used in the kitchen, you can use the next cookbook for instructions on using them effectively advise taste of a dish.

If you want to store your herbs for later use, you should be in a container made of plastic or glass. Paper or cardboard will not work because it absorbs the flavor of the herbs. During the first few days of storage, you should regularly check the container and see if it has acquired any moisture. If so, you must let it dry all the herbs and then. If moisture is left from the first drying, it is the powdery mildew, while you save your herbs. Nobody likes mildew.

So if you enjoy herbs or gardening, or both, then perhaps you should consider setting up an herb garden. It might require a little of the work at first to set it up for optimal drainage, and pick what herbs you want to grow. But after the initial rush, it's only a matter of harvesting and drying all your favorite herbs.