Herb Gardening

If you go to the supermarket, you can see fresh herbs for sale. These herbs can be grown in your garden with a minimal amount of trouble. You can grow them from cuttings or seeds. It is possible the heavy growing herbs and plant new herb plants. Regardless of format, you want to use, adds Herb Gardening joy to your world.

Herbs are annual, biennial and perennial plants. Herbs such as basil, coriander and dill are annuals, that bloom for one season only and then die. Caraway and parsley are biennials that live for two seasons and bloom only in the second season. Perennials like chives, fennel, mint and tarragon die '' and then over the winter to bloom each season once the plant has been established.

Herbs should be planted in a 20 foot by 4 garden square. In this garden you can have separate plots for each type of herb. This property is a small 12 by 18 inch herb garden. With the many herbs that are used, colorful and frequently used herbs are around the borders of your plot will be planted. Purple parsley and basil are examples of colorful border herb gardening.

should flourish for your herb garden the soil is not wet. Herbs do not grow in wet soils. To your herb plot well drained, remove about 15-18 cm depth of soil. Around the bottom of the hole add some crushed stone or other materials that are similar to the stones.

A compost and sand mixture on the bottom of the earth make the texture lighter it easier for water to seep through the soil and drain. Hummus enrich the nutrients in the soil and restore the soil pH level. Then refill the hole higher than it originally was.

The herbs can be planted in the ground late winter. Herb gardening requires that you first grow them indoors in shallow trays. The herb seeds must not be covered with a thick layer of soil. The soil must be drained easily and well. This type of soil texture will ensure that your herbs from the garden to get a good start.

Once your herbs can be planted outdoors there are a few insects attack the plants. Aphids like anise, caraway, dill and fennel herbs. The red spider mite attacks low growing herbs. Rust can be a disease like status for mint plants.

But these small worries aside, herb garden, a peaceful and intriguing activity that takes its place in history. Whether you use herbs for cooking, medicinal use or even aromatic use is "the art of herbs in the garden a comeback among the gardeners. join your ranks, and enjoy the pleasures of your own herbs.