Growing Herbs at Your Place

Growing Herbs at Your Place
One of the great things about creating a garden is growing herbs. Not only do they produce wonderful aromas, they are great in cooking, they have health benefits and some herbs are very useful in the garden as pest controllers and soil conditioners.
Your own Herb Garden
A lot of the culinary herbs in use today are warm climate herbs so if you are growing herbs in a cold climate you will have to grow the warm climate ones in the warm or summer months. Check to see what herbs like conditions where you live. Some, you will discover will grow just about anywhere but most don’t like wet soil. Be sure to choose or create a well drained garden bed. You could try putting a 75mm (3 inch) layer of crushed stone about 450mm (18 inches) below the surface and covering with a compost rich soil.
When you come to pick your herbs remember there are better times than others. The best time is early in the day, after dew has evaporated from the leaves, but before the sun really starts to hit the plants. This is because the sunlight can dry out essential oils, which are what give herbs their distinctive tastes and scents. Also, keep in mind that although some plants, such as basil, are encouraged after picking, don’t remove all the leaves if you want to keep growing your herbs, since they provide the food source for the plant.
Growing Herbs Indoors
Herbs will grow just about anywhere, including indoors. Annual herbs are more suited to this method but you can always move your perennials to the garden when the warm weather arrives. Make sure they have plenty of sun.
Again as for outdoor gardening, herbs like well drained soil so give them plenty of drainage and instead of watering the soil try misting the plants with a spray bottle. This will help prevent waterlogged soils and roots .