How To Plan Your Herb Garden Layout
When many people think of starting a garden, they have huge professionally-staffed public gardens like Longwood Gardens in Pennsylvania or Kew Gardens in England. Those gardens, while impossible to duplicate in your garden plot or window box, are also completely artificial. A huge public garden is manicured and coiffed within an inch of its life. A real herb garden needs to still look and grow like they were meant to. Not only will this help the herbs, but will save your back. Let the herbs themselves help you plan your herb garden layout.
What Resources Do You Have
Take an honest look at what resources you have for your herb garden layout. If you already have a greenhouse, you have a great place for seedlings or herbs that need a more Mediterranean climate in order to grow, like basil. If you don’t have a greenhouse or a large garden plot away from car exhaust and tons of shade, then don’t fret. Just use flowerpots in your kitchen or front porch as your portable herb garden layout. An herb garden doesn’t have to be all in one patch of ground in order to be a useful, satisfying herb garden.
What Herbs Do You Want To Grow
The best guide you can use to plan your herb garden layout is by paying attention to the needs of the herbs you want to grow. Now, if you want to grow mint, you must keep in mind that mint demands a lot of space and will choke any other herbs or flowers growing nearby. However, herbs like parsley don’t mind a little company. So, you either grow mostly mint or confine the mint to its own pot, or you don’t grow any mint so you can grow more of a variety.
You just can’t plant herbs willy-nilly into the ground. That’s an herb garden layout that’s a recipe for disaster. You have to actually do some homework as to what kind of soil your herb prefers, how far apart it should be from other herbs, how much sunlight it needs, and when its growing season is.
Your best bet is to just concentrate on two or three hearty, versatile herbs until you get the hang of it and can try growing something a little more exotic. Your herb garden layout will change every year little by little, according to the needs of the herbs. Don’t fret if it doesn’t look just so. Happy herbs tend to need to be left alone in order to do their growing.
