The Best Herbs to Plant in Your First Herb Garden

When you are starting your gardening journey, there is so much to learn. This is one reason I always suggest starting with a herb garden, then expand your growing to other vegetables and plants. After all, you don't know what you don't know, right?

As the fundamentals are the same for a veggie garden, the practice you'll get with a herb garden will put you in a good position to succeed..

What types of herbs are there?

It can be a touch choice of what to start growing in your garden of herbs. There are many different varieties of herb plants, each having different growing requirements.

To start with you have your herbs that need to be in the soil. These varieties of herb plants are those that grow huge and are often used in hedges like your lavender and rosemary.

Then you have herb plants that take a long time to grow. When they do, it is the roots that you harvest, like ginger and turmeric. It takes approximately 9 months to grow ginger and turmeric!

Then you have the seasonal herbs vs perennial herbs. We'll have a look at these ones in a sec.

Right now though, check out this video to get a visual of growing herbs, and what they are like.

This video shows you about some different types of herbs.

It can be daunting when starting a herb garden, sometimes we wonder if the costs are worth it.

No matter what we start, when starting from scratch there will always be a cost: both a start-up cost and often ongoing costs that people don't tell you about.

Especially if you live in a place where you cannot make your own compost.

So, here is the solution to growing your herbs easily at home.

Seasonal herbs vs perennial herbs

Seasonal herbs will germinate, grow, flower and die within one season. Some good herbs to grow of the seasonal variety are basil, cilantro (coriander) and chives.

You collect their seeds and grow them at the season that suits them. Growing them outside the season will mean the probably wont grow well, and die quickly.

So it is important to make sure that you are growing them in the right season.

TIP: don't rely on what is available, do the research as some garden stores sell things year round, not caring if it will grow or now.

Perennial herbs on the other hand, are herbs that grow year round and often last for many years.

They will have a season that they grow a bit more in, flower in, but they wont die off (unless you forget to water and fertilise them), they will just go dormant outside their optimal growing season, and patiently wait until it feels right, then get a growth spurt as it were.

Some examples of perennial herbs are sage, thyme and oregano.

Once you know a little more about your herbs, you can work out the type of garden you want to create

Using herbs as pest control

The final TIP for you, is that many herbs have such a strong scent. Because of this they are great to mix in with your veggie garden and use as a method of natural pest control.

If the pests can only smell the herbs, they miss the yummy veggies. An example would be; planting basil next to your tomatoes. It deters the pests and saves your growing tomatoes.

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