Herbs are great to add in your salads and to add that extra flavour and fragrance to your food. Not only do they work wonders for your food, they work wonders for your health too. Herbs are known to be effective for certain illnesses and also for keeping up your health. Now, when you are thinking about gardening and about herbs, what could be better than herb gardening?
Sage
It is simple enough and these few ideas will help you set up your own herb garden.
First, you need to do some planning for your garden. Think about what kind of herbs you wish to have in your garden. Give a thought on their kinds. For example, decide upon whether you want annuals, perennials or biennials.
Basil
Then, you will have to think about the amount of space they need and how much space you can afford. You can even educate yourself with a book that deals with such information about the specific herbs that you plan to grow.
You can start by listing or drawing a sketch of your garden. You can divide the annuals and the perennials. This will keep you from disturbing the perennials when the time for removing the annuals comes. Perennials are best placed on the garden edge. This will give you ease in tilling your garden.
Marjoram
Besides that, you will need to place your tall plants to the back while allowing the shorter ones at the front. Give your plants enough space so that they can grow well. Placing them in proper positions will help them grow better.
When thinking about bed shapes, a square bed for herbs will work fine. You can divide it into four using two paths that cross each other at the centre. You can then border these paths using brick or stone.
Parsley
A simple wooden ladder might also be helpful here. You can plant the herbs in between the rungs. If you want something more innovative, you can go for a wheel bed, planting between the wheel wedges.
Now, when it comes to growing your plants, you will have to cater to different plants according to their needs. This is the main reason you select your herbs right in the beginning. Different herbs need different kind of care.
Compared to other plants, herbs are relatively easy to grow. As a result, you do not have much of a problem here. All you need to do is give them enough space, sunlight, moisture along with fertile nutritious soil and they will do fine by themselves.
I’ve got one growing in my backyard right now.