Designing A Culinary Herb Garden

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Designing a culinary herb garden. A mediterranean herb garden might include oregano marjoram garlic onion basil rosemary. Put more aggressive herbs like mints and lemon balm in pots either above or below the ground. You too can have a culinary herb garden.

Apartment dwellers take heart. Grow a mix of herbaceous evergreen and annual herbs with an eye towards having few blank areas in the your garden during the growing season. Generally formal herb gardens are laid out as a series of beds creating some geometric form like a square circle or half circle.

In a 3 x 6 kitchen garden patch set your plants five to six inches apart widthwise beginning with the front row. All of these stages will appear at some point during the growing season. If you love salsa plant tomatoes peppers cilantro onion and garlic in your garden.

You can opt to go the traditional route of a small garden specifically for herbs. I grow many of these year round in pots right in my kitchen so they are close to hand when i am busy cooking. This will get larger plants up above the garden leaving more surface area on the ground for other plantings.

Place low creepers like thyme and chamomile on opposite path edges to complement each other. Install the layout first with edgings and pathways in place. Culinary gardens are generally governed by what the planter uses the most.

Be creative and try something new each year. If you have too much shade or your hardscaping won t allow you to plant right outside your door you can add culinary herbs to the vegetable garden or plant a container garden instead. The structure of the garden helps to cover the straggly appearance of overgrown recently sheared or bolting herbs.