GROWING HERBS

Home » Home and Family » Gardening Join Sign in EzineArticles - Expert Authors Sharing Their Best Original Articles Search A Carey Basic PLUS Author | 34 Articles Joined: December 1, 2010 South Africa Which Herbs to Grow in Your Garden By A Carey | Submitted On April 18, 2016 Recommend Article Article Comments Print Article Expert Author A Carey We all find ourselves busy and worn out because our lives are packed with so many tasks. Quite often we forget to go to the grocery store after a long day of work to get herbs for a meal. I find myself getting home after work and realising that I didn't get basil for the pasta dish we planned to cook. That's when I decided to grow my own herb garden in the back yard. My garden was already decorated and complete with a braai area. I have flagstone walkways with grass alongside them, along the walls of my fence I have rose bushes, and the braai area is paved with cladding. So I had decided to allocate a small section of about half a metre by two metres nearest to my kitchen's back door. This section runs along the wall of my house. It doesn't get too much direct sunlight during the day, because I didn't want the herbs to be exposed to direct sunlight all day long. I placed one layer of bricks to partition this area. Then I added copings along the edge of the bricks to give it a rounded and neat appearance. I went to the garden centre to get soil that is ideal for planting herbs, and I bought a few seeds. In our home we use herbs such as basil, rosemary, coriander, garlic, parsley and thyme. I planted each herb's seeds in a rectangular space within the herb garden. In other words, each set of seeds were planted in a half metre by 1/3 of a metre area. I simply placed a piece of string to indicate each sub-section. Then I placed a note on a skewer stick and wrote the name of each herb I planted in each sub-section. Over the next few weeks the herb plants started to sprout and with great care and watering them daily, they grew into fully fledged herb plants. If you are not an avid gardener, you could get a number of medium plant pots for the herbs and plant each herb in one plant pot. This will give a more decorative set up. You can place paving stones, such as flagstones, to half of your backyard and place five or six identical plant pots along the backyard wall. For added decoration, you can add cladding to the backyard wall to create a feature area for your herb garden. The type of herbs that you can grow in your garden will depend on which ones you use in your meals often. Also consider the temperature fluctuations of the area that you live in. Overall, you can be quite creative with gardening while enjoying the fresh herbs in your meals every day. The Paving Warehouse & Wonder Rock, masters in the art of simulated rock, are no ordinary stone masoners. The Paving Warehouse is South Africa's leading manufacturer of simulated rock, with applications both indoors and outdoors, each stone cast is a classic. Visit our website and contact us: Tel no: +27 11 310 2380, Email: frontdesk@thepavingwarehouse.co.za. Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/expert/A_Carey/2080316 0 Comments | Leave a Comment Did you find this article helpful? Happy Face0 Sad Face1 Viewed 35 times Word count: 456 Article Tools EzinePublisher Report this article Cite this article Stay Informed Subscribe to New Article Alerts: Home and Family: Gardening A Carey Email Address Subscribe We will never sell or rent your email address. Gardening Article Feed Gardening Article Feed Find More Articles Search Recent Articles 4 Small Shade Trees That Are Perfect for Any Yard Gardening - The Hardest Vegetables to Grow Herbicides to Use Against Invading Water Chestnuts When Is the Right Time to Start Getting Rid of Lily Pads? What Is Sustainability for Preppers? Children Love to Garden Plant and Prune Between Rainy Days in February in Southern California How to Hire the Best Gardeners Plant Fertilizers: Importance of Micronutrients Benefits of Astro Turf for Gardens EzineArticles.com About Us FAQ Contact Us Member Benefits Privacy Policy Shop Site Map Blog Training Video Library Advertising Affiliates Cartoons Authors Submit Articles Members Login Premium Membership Expert Authors Endorsements Editorial Guidelines Terms of Service Publishers Terms Of Service Ezines / Email Alerts Manage Subscriptions EzineArticles RSS © 2017 EzineArticles All Rights Reserved Worldwide