Posted on October 31, 2009 in Gardening Types
Is it not fascinating to get the access of the ingredients of your dishes just outside your kitchen door!! This can be a great gardening as well as cooking experience.
Some of the ideas of culinary herbs that you can plant in your garden are: fennel, spearmint, flat leaf parsley, rosemary, sweet basil, purple basil, garden thyme, coriander, french lavender, dill, chives and lemon verbena. This list is just to give an idea of planting in your garden. No doubt you can include the favorite culinary herbs of your choice.
Here are few tips to grow these in your garden:
- Choose the location as close to the kitchen as possible. This will ease your access to the plants. Always convenient location ensures you the usage and better care of the plants.
- See that plants face sun because herbs grow well in sun. A shady location do not promote thriving growth of the plants. Moreover the flavors of the outcomes of the plants will be deminished. Hence see that your location is perfect in this rule.
- Do not plant these herbs in the vicinity of the plants that are prone to pests and weeds.
- Plant the herbs according to the seasons and rotational planting of these herbs can be beneficial.
- These herbs can be grown in any type of soil. See that the soil is well drained. Position a stone for paving near each herb plant so that your stepping may not disturb the herb. It also helps to check the growth of weeds.
- If you are growing the herbs in pots or containers then you need ingredients like potting soil, peat moss and vermiculite. You can plant them according to the usage and necessities of the plant. Advantage of pot gardening is that you can move the plant to the place you want. You can also decorate the pots in the vicinity of your kitchen.
- Culinary herbs require bare maintenance. They survive and grow even if you do not spend much time on them. But for quick results and thriving growth they need a little of your time for pruning and pest control.
- Harvest the herbs in morning time, especially shortly after the morning dew has lifted. This is the time when all the nutrients of the herbs are fully grown. Remember to cut whole stems rather than single leaves or flowers. Once harvested, rinse the herbs with cold water as pat dry.
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