Designing A Culinary Herb Garden
You too can have a culinary herb garden.
Designing a culinary herb garden. In the first third and fifth rows place your first plant just at the left edge of your plot. Be creative and try something new each year. When selecting plants for a formal herb garden consider the growth habits and mature sizes of the plants.
The structure of the garden helps to cover the straggly appearance of overgrown recently sheared or bolting herbs. Use bricks rocks gravel or even grass. In a 3 x 6 kitchen garden patch set your plants five to six inches apart widthwise beginning with the front row.
I grow many of these year round in pots right in my kitchen so they are close to hand when i am busy cooking. You can even add more tiers for more planting area. If you have limited space for your herb garden consider going up to maximize the space.
You can opt to go the traditional route of a small garden specifically for herbs. A mediterranean herb garden might include oregano marjoram garlic onion basil rosemary. Apartment dwellers take heart.
Choosing plants for an herb garden. Grow a mix of herbaceous evergreen and annual herbs with an eye towards having few blank areas in the your garden during the growing season. All of these stages will appear at some point during the growing season.
Note which herbs are aggressive spreaders like mint and plant these in pots sink into the soil or their own special area. Even if you live in an apartment condo or living situation that doesn t come with a yard or garden space you can still cultivate your own herbs in the kitchen a sunny window sill or patio. You can choose from many types of herb gardens but generally herb gardens are either formal or informal.