Designing A Raised Bed Herb Garden
Having a functional herb garden is one of the hallmarks of a working homestead.
Designing a raised bed herb garden. You can build your herb garden in containers easily i have many many articles on building a herb garden indoors or. Plant a spilling herb. But to create a simple formal herb garden all you really need to do is choose a geometric shape like a circle or a square divide it into sections of equal size and fill each section with similar or complementary plants.
Formal needn t be on a grand scale. For optimum plant growth and productivity your raised garden bed should get at least eight hours of full sun every day so be sure to place your garden in the sunniest area of your yard. Formal herb gardens use straight lines and patterns for pleasing symmetry.
Along the sides of each of our test garden s raised beds homestead design collective planted herbs that do just that. Ok so i m going out on a limb today with you all. Not only do herb blossoms look beautiful and attract pollinators and beneficial insects but they re also edible.
By building up the beds at their lowest sections like these stone raised beds you can create the illusion of a level garden. Set up the wooden planks. Fill the raised bed.
This is a very interesting raised bed herb garden. Building a raised bed step by step. Remove wild herbs from the soil.
The main objective of having a raised garden bed is to maximize productivity. Formal herb gardens with their symmetry knots and interweaving textures can look intimidating. The reason is that he took old masonry parts and put them.