small business, Self improvement, working at home, mental health, cooking, hobbies, gardening, wellness, health, fitness, motherhood and raising families

Going With The French Style

The French style of growing an herb garden, is in long rows of built troughs with every imaginable herb possible to be used in their own kitchens. If you are a beginner gardener it is not too difficult to do your own her garden at home. If you do have some space you could plant your herb garden in tiers, making more ground space available to work from, and if you have a large plot, you could  make smaller troughs to put your herbs in.

Amount Of Space Makes A Huge Difference While Creating an Herb Garden

If you are in a tiny space with no land to plant any herbs or plants you could create your own little indoor herb garden on your windowsill.  Parsley just as lavender, are just some of those plants that actually don’t want water all over them; just the soil needs to stay moist.

There are so many little tricks that need to be learnt when you do create your own little herb garden, with some plants needing to be picked, twisted, some ripped and others snipped, depending on what they are.  Over time you will see why this is so. If you have a shrub such as rosemary in your herb garden, you will see that when you trim the shrub from the base upward, it would grow taller faster, and from the trimmings make your own dried rosemary.

Critters And Insecticides

Keeping critters out of your herb garden can be quite a mission at times and it is also important to know what products in your home can be used to keep them at bay. Spread some kitchen salt over snails if don’t you want them in your herb garden. For aphids on your plants make a light mixture of dishwashing liquid and water and spray them off the plants.

However, now and then you may have to get something stronger from the nursery if you cannot source a concoction over the Internet to get rid of some pests in your garden.  Jjust make sure if you have used these products to wash the herbs off properly before using them in your home.

Tags: container gardening, gardening for beginners, herb garden, herb gardening, herbs

This entry was posted on Tuesday, September 1st, 2009 at 8:59 pm and is filed under Herb Gardening, Home & Garden Improvements. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.