Starting a new garden can be a great start to growing your own food. It's ideal for budding cooks and culinary thinkers, providing easy access to a variety of fresh herbs all summer and possibly year-round.
Herbs, while a good starting point, are not the only option. We can also grow a wide variety of herbs for a variety of other uses, from medicinal herbs and household cleaners to herbs for use in beauty treatments and more.
However, for beginners, the question remains: where exactly to start your garden and what exactly should it look like? Which landing method to choose? Here are some herb garden ideas for beginning gardeners to help you create your own garden design.
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When starting a vegetable garden, you can only think of growing a few herbs in pots or raised beds. But it's interesting to note that there are many types of gardens that you may want to consider.
Indoor Herb Garden Ideas
First of all, it's always worth noting that different herbs can be grown just as easily on a sunny windowsill as they are outdoors. You don't even need a garden or open space to grow your own herbs.
When growing herbs indoors, most people simply grow herbs on their windowsills in pots or small pots.
But you can also consider growing hydroponic plants in water. You can also try some space saving hacks like hanging a vertical garden wall or hanging trash cans.
Private outdoor herb garden
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Outdoors, you have several different options for growing herbs. You can create a dedicated herb garden where you'll grow your own herbs and herbs, or you can integrate herbs elsewhere in your garden alongside other ornamental or ornamental plants.
A popular idea in permaculture circles is the concept of the herb spiral. This spiral flower bed is an idea that allows you to plant a variety of herbs with different heights in a relatively small area of the garden.
You can also grow herbs in a regular bed, as long as you group together herbs that like similar growing conditions in terms of sun, water, soil, etc.
Integrate plants in a mixed garden space
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While a dedicated herb garden can often be great, it's often better to integrate herbs into different areas of your garden rather than growing them all in one spot.
Creating a multicultural garden often involves growing herbs as companion plants to a variety of other common crops. The use of basil as a companion plant to tomato is a well-known example, although there are many other examples where another herb can be very useful as a companion plant for your fruit and vegetable crops.
Grasses can also make excellent companions for perennial plantings. For example, there are many herbs that make good attractants and pest repellants in a forest garden or other edible perennial growing schemes. Some are somewhat more shade tolerant and may be a good choice for dappled shade under trees, such as in junctions of fruit trees.
Grasses can also find their way into other cropping patterns, such as sod plantings that have been used instead of turf. Some herbs, such as thyme and chamomile, make excellent lawn substitutes in a water-rich organic garden.
Multigrass is also ideal for planting along borders and using paving spaces on driveways and other marginal areas, and can be used with or in place of other low-growing groundcovers.
Storage Gardens: Mix Herbs Properly
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Deciding where to plant your herbs, whether in a specialty garden or in your garden layout, is just the beginning.
Of course, you also need to understand which plants will do well in a given environment, and more importantly, how best to combine the herbs you choose to grow with each other and with other plants that may be growing nearby.
When deciding where to place individual herbs and combining them appropriately with other plants and with each other, you should think about their needs in terms of sunlight and shade, wind, water, and soil. You also need to think about the root habits of the grass in question and how much it grows.
As long as you know what the herbs need, and those needs match the conditions in which you can provide them, it's hard to go wrong.
