Tips For Starting A Kitchen Herb Garden
So you’re planning on starting a kitchen herb garden for the first time, and you’ve come to this article for some tips, eh? Taken that this is indeed your purpose of coming here, I’d like to congratulate you for coming to the right place.
From a farmer’s prospective, a great deal of pride is taken in growing one’s own food. The feeling of being able to sustain oneself by growing grub off the ground is wonderful. However, you don’t have to be a farmer to start your own kitchen herb garden, since all you’ll be doing is growing all sorts of easy-to-handle herbs. The process of setting one up is so easy that even a 12-year old can do it.
With that said, here are some tips to help you get started: first tip is to select a suitable area to grow them. An ideal site to grow culinary herbs is outdoors where there’s plenty of sunlight coming in. Ideally, they should be getting at least 6 to 8 hours of sunshine every day. But then again there are seasons where we aren’t blessed with that much light, so what you can do here is supplement the sunshine by using a fluorescent light bulb during the hours of dark.
Another important thing to always keep in mind is to choose a site with sufficient drainage. Giving an herb too much water is never advisable. Also, planting in soil full of nutrition ensures it’ll grow faster and healthier.
Outdoor gardens are great places to grow culinary herbs. If you’d prefer to plant at some other place (for whatever reason you may have), these plants do well in patio containers, in which you may choose to place anywhere you like.
Moreover, greenhouses using aquaponics (or any other soil-less growing methods) are also ideal places for you to grow herbs. You can even choose to place them indoors, just so long as they get plenty of sunlight and proper drainage.
Given that you’re new to setting up a kitchen herb garden, it’d be best for you to start off with something small that won’t need you to put in a lot of work for maintaining things. With that said, a small container would be great for starters. Once you get a feel on how things work and eventually get the hang of it, you can work your way up to creating a bigger garden.
