The Reasons You Should Grow Your Own Herbs
Learning how to grow my own herbs is simple to do, and soon you will be surprised at how much you’ll taste, smell, and appreciate in terms of your herb garden. You can enjoy the satisfaction of growing fresh herbs all year around. Think of how easy it would be to grow your own fresh herbs in your kitchen. It would be a fun hobby that you could spend time on throughout the year. One of many great examples of a wonderful garden you can grow with your indoor herb gardening was a small flowering herb garden located in an old wheelbarrow in our family’s backyard. When we moved out of the area, I wanted to plant another garden, but I knew I wanted to keep the wheelbarrow as a reminder of my herb gardening passion.
I decided to take some time and learn how to grow my own herbs from a book. While I was reading, I found many different examples of great gardens that were grown using the principles I had just learned. It was such interesting material that I kept the book with me for many years. Not only does growing herbs provide flavor, color, and a number of other positive benefits, but it is also very clean fun to grow.
The principles I learned from the book were what I put into my own home herb gardening. I started by learning about watering. Knowing how much water your herbs need per day and how to measure this information accurately is essential to growing healthy plants. Next I learned the importance of soil preparation and the ways in which to prepare the soil for growing herbs. Finally, I learned how to protect my plants from pests and weeds by creating a barrier around the root system.
All of these principles I learned while reading the Perennial Growth book helped to create a system for my indoor herb gardening. In particular, I learned that watering my herbs was not the same as watering my plants. I needed to water my perennials differently than I did my other plants. This is because their primary nutrients come from the soil, and not the plant. So they require different amounts of water based on the soil type and whether or not they are being potted sapped, or sprayed.
I started to learn that there were many ways to improve the flavor of my culinary sage. I now use my harvested raspberries, alfalfa sprouts, sage, basil, chives, oregano, cilantro and fennel sprigs to add flavor to all of my soups, stews, salads, soups, dips and spreads. You will find that all of these new herbs can be used to season and flavor the dishes you prepare at home. Plus you will discover many other ways that they can be used as well in your recipes to make them even tastier.
There are also many varieties of herbs that can be grown successfully in containers but do not like the idea of growing under full sun. This is not an issue with many varieties of herbs that can thrive in full sun provided they are not exposed to too much heat. Some of them will not even flower during the winter. I know for a fact that I will be growing a lot of mint in the coming years because I am planning to introduce mint to my family’s traditional dishes. I love mint!
You need to be able to provide your herbs with enough space to grow and bloom. It is recommended that you have at least four feet of space to allow for good drainage. There are some herbs that will do fine if you only have three feet of space to give them room to grow. I am not sure how much you will need to have on your planting bed but most people recommend at least four feet to get all four feet of soil to be usable. You can then plant anything in those four feet, including your herb growing plants.
There is another thing that you should keep in mind about growing herbs that needs to be known about if you are going to harvest them. Harvesting them is easy but it is very important that you know when to do it. Herbs do not like being cut down. This causes them to go into overdrive and sometimes they can produce bad smelling leaves that can affect your health. If you want to harvest them you should take them outside on a sunny day early in the morning and just cut them down as needed.