Herbs - growing in the garden

If you have a plot of land, even a small one, where you can grow a bed of useful herbs, herbs are a perfect choice. Growing them at home is quite easy, and the results are stunning. They're easy to grow, so you'll have your own herbs all summer long, significantly enhancing the flavor of any dish. They're also easy to dry or freeze for the winter. This way, you won't have to buy store-bought spices laced with all sorts of junk. By the way, check out— Growing seedlings in plastic bottles on toilet paper,this is an interesting and easy way.

 

 

Growing herbs at home in your garden

Herbs can serve two purposes in your garden: besides being beneficial, they can also enhance your landscape design if you beautifully create flowerbeds and grow the right mix of herbs. Choose a sunny, fertile spot, plan out the shape of your mini-garden, and create your beds. Border them with a border, and start planting. If you grow thyme, flowering monarda, sage, rosemary, and marigolds, you'll have a beautiful flowerbed that's also beneficial. For beginners, we recommend starting with oregano, parsley, dill, cilantro, mint, and fennel—these are the easiest and most undemanding herbs to grow.

Growing and caring for herbs

If you're looking to grow herbs in your garden to repel pests, sow them along the perimeter of your beds or in the spaces between rows. If you want to use them all summer and stock up for the winter, space them out between the beds. The key is plenty of sun for Mediterranean herbs like basil, sage, and tarragon, while parsley, mint, and lovage thrive in partial shade.

It's good to plant perennial herbs like rosemary, fennel, or thyme, but you should start with annuals. Dill should be sown once, and it will spread throughout the garden on its own. Keep this in mind and remove the plant's umbels promptly if you don't want to have to weed it out all over the garden. Parsley can be sown from seed in warm soil in the spring; coriander also grows well. Just don't let it flower; pick off the tops promptly, otherwise it will quickly fade, and you won't see any greenery. You can leave a few plants for seed and pluck the rest. If you sow it every three weeks, it will be green until the frost sets in.

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Basil It also grows well in full sun; pinch off the tops to shape the bush. It can be sown with seeds in the spring and later planted as seedlings. For the winter, it should be stored in pots in the kitchen, where you can enjoy the wonderful, fragrant greens.

Oregano (marjoram) – can be grown in a pot and then replanted in the spring. Good for meat and poultry.
Mint It grows well and the round leaves are great for mint sauce and drinks.
Sage Collect it in the summer, dry it, and it will serve you well in the winter if you store it in a tightly sealed container.

Parsley You can also dry it for the winter and use it to make your own seasonings for soups.
Tarragon It will delight you with its greenery until the cold weather sets in; it can be preserved for the winter by drying or freezing. It's excellent for pickles and fish dishes.

Rosemary Sow in May, then shape the bush as it grows. It's a perennial, so you'll have fragrant needles the following year, perfect for accompanying meat.
Thyme can be harvested year-round. Lemon thyme has the most pleasant aroma, while regular thyme has a sharper flavor. Caraway thyme smells of pine and caraway. It pairs perfectly with poultry.

If you take a creative approach to sowing herbs in your garden, you'll enjoy your own harvest of wonderful, aromatic herbs all year long. Good luck!