Herb Garden

The history of herbs gardening goes back onto the monks and nuns in medieval times that grew a lot of herbs in their backyard for medical reasons. Also a lot of so called "witches" grew all the magical herbs. Nowadays the reasons for herb growing are not that much different. A lot of people just want to be autonomous and produce something for themselves.

This is where the herbs gardening becomes handy. You can grow different herbs just for use in the kitchen for the cooking process. You could also grow herbs that you intend to use as alternative medicine or you could simply grow them for decorative reasons. If you want herbs for cooking just check out a list of herbs you need for common recipes and you will have your list of seeds you need to get. If you want to grow them for alternative medicine you will need to check out the specific topic you want them for. If you simply want them for decoration you should just get a herb or plant catalog and pick the most beautiful herbs like parsley or purple basil.

Now once you've created your own herb list and got the seeds from your gardener or a catalog go out into your garden and create a new bed for the herbs. Make sure it is well separated from your other plants. I suggest you use a raised bed and put a layer of stones beneath the actual soil so the soil doesn't become too wet and tough. Mix the soil with compost or sand to make it more fluffy.

If you got a mix of annuals biennials and perennial herbs for your herb gardening  you should make sure to separate the annuals from the other herbs. If you got mints you have to watch them closely because they like to spread over the whole garden and you don't want that. 

For the sowing make a shallow trench in the ground and then put the seeds in according to the instructions on the seed package. Then cover them with a thin layer of soil. Make sure to always keep the soil wet enough (but do not drown the herbs please!). You should always sow the herbs in early spring. If you want to grow a herb garden in the winter months, indoors in containers works very well as long as they get plenty of sunshine. Also most of the herbs are resistant to frost but you should consider taking the weakest ones indoors over the winter. So that is it. This should help you to get started with the herb gardening.