How to Create a Fine Garden
Many of us have often daydreamed of growing our own herb garden. You can make it a reality by learning how to create a fine garden of herbs. Herbs are not hard to grow and they attract delightful butterflies, ladybugs and dragon flies. Check your yard for a good location, roll up your sleeves and start digging and planting herbs for fun and cooking.
Find the perfect location in your yard for growing herbs. Look for level land, water access and sunshine at least six hours a day. If possible find a spot that is not too windy.
Research herb catalogs and books or go on the Internet to learn about herbs. Study planting and growing information about your favorite herbs for cooking, medicinal purposes or those you just want to experiment with. This should provide you with information about planting and care.
Decide which herbs you want to grow to get an idea of how large a garden space is required.
Mark out the garden space and turn over the dirt. Remove rocks, sticks, weeds or anything growing within the new garden area.
Till the soil and add plenty of good quality compost.
Divide the new garden into individual garden beds. Make soil retaining walls around each garden bed to retain water. Allocate a pathway for tending plants down the middle of the garden area. Construct a chicken-wire fence around the garden if needed to keep out animals and children.
Purchase herb seedlings from nurseries for planting in the spring. Carefully remove seedlings from their containers and plant each one in an individual garden bed for best results. This should give each plant a couple of feet of space between plants for growing room.
Water new transplants frequently to get started. Fertilize as needed.
- Harvest herb leaves as needed, preferably before they go into a bloom cycle. Herbs are the most potent before blooming.