An Herb Garden is Perfect For Year-Round Gardening

First step in creating your herb garden is your pottery. You can find some very beautiful pots, but if you are on a budget, plastic pots will suffice; they are inexpensive and can be painted in your own colors and designs to make them really unique. Mix river sand with your paint to give the pots a rough finish, this looks very good. Just ensure that any pots you use have drainage holes.

Feeding your herbs is essential and this can be done with organic compost or any other chemical free fertilizer for this purpose. Fertilizing them will help them grow and thrive to produce lots of lovely leaves for you to use.

Making sure your herbs get at least 4 hours of sunlight every day is also important for them to thrive. If you are in a cooler climate and your herbs are outside, move them indoors into whatever sunny spots you have available. Rotating them can ensure that they all get a turn of receiving adequate amounts of sunlight.

Never over water your herbs, this will result in them failing to grow, a little water in the morning or evening is sufficient, but if you feel the soil and it is still damp. Leave the watering for the next day. Label the plants with old popsicle sticks so you can identify your plants and trim them regularly. The more you trim the better they grow, so make sure you use your herbs often. Never allow your herbs to flower, this takes the entire flavor away from the leaves and the plant will go to seed.

Susan loves cooking with the fresh basil from her herb garden. Susan spends her winters cooking and indoor gardening.