Growing Your Own Herbs

The process of growing herbs includes many steps, and you must be aware of as much as you can when it comes to a process such as this, so that you can grow healthy and usable herbs. If you are interested in growing your own herbs you may be overwhelmed by the vast amount of information available regarding this issue, however there are a few things in particular that you need to take into consideration.

The Outdoor Herb Garden

The first thing you need to do to grow herbs is to decide on the size that your herb garden is going to be. If you are a beginner herb gardener you are going to want to make sure that you do not make too large of a garden, so you will not be overwhelmed. Creating a diagram of the area and labels for the plants will be incredibly helpful especially since when herbs are growing it can often be difficult to tell them apart.

Also when growing herbs you need to consider the site and soil conditions, namely taking into consideration drainage and soil fertility. Drainage is actually considered one of the most important aspects of all when it comes to growing herbs, because herbs are not able to grow in wet soil. This is why making sure that you have proper drainage before starting the garden is the best idea, so that you will not have to fix any problems later on.

Winter protection is another important issue that is essential to learn about when growing herbs, particularly if you live in an area that gets especially cold during the winter months. Perennial and biennial herbs all need to be winter protected, and so you want to mulch with straw, oak leaves or evergreen boughs four inches deep in order to protect the plants.

Make sure that you apply this mulch after the ground has frozen in winter and not before, and you never want to remove the mulch until the plants show the first signs of early growth, which will be sometime in early spring.

The Indoor Herb Garden

You can also grow your herbs indoors, although there are different growing routines and regimes that you have to follow here. The watering and light needs for each herb must be followed when grown indoors.  Most any planting container will do, but you will probably want to use a bright sunny window to sit the planter on.

As long as you take the previously discussed information into consideration, you should have no problem growing herbs and should come out with some beautiful and healthy results.