Grow Culinary Herbs Next To Kitchen

What is an "herb," and when does an herb become a savory vegetable or salad plant. Peppers, celery, the orach, and spinach might be classed as annual herbs, salad plants, or seasonings; the celery has quite certainly a double role-its delicious stalks and its aromatic seeds widely used for flavouring as celery salt. Herb plants are often used whole or in part for flavour, while many of these same plants may be medicinal, ornamental, and aromatic as well as culinary.

As with other garden plants, herbs can be classified as annual, biennial, or perennial.

Most culinary herbs are perennials. Perennials live more than two growing seasons. Flowers like scented geraniums hibiscus, beebalm and roses are all perennial herbs with flavourful flowers.

Perennials grown from seed may grow slowly the first year but gain vigor and maturity in the second year.

An annual herb will flower and fruit during the summer and fall, and then die when this cycle is complete. Seeds of annuals should be sown in ground or container after the danger from frost is over and will usually need to be thinned out early in their growth to prevent crowding.

Tender Annuals are often of tropical or subtropical origin, like the tomato while they are true annuals require special handling-., their seeds must be started six to eight weeks before the young seedlings can safely be transplanted outdoors, when warm weather has arrived.

Anything that can grow in a garden can also be grown in a container. Understand the nature and particular growing needs of the plant when considering what type of container to use you need not spend a lot of money on containers. There is little wonder that herbs have earned a place in American gardens. Freshly harvested herbs have pungent and aromatic qualities that far exceed any commercially found whether fresh or dried.

Grow culinary herbs next to kitchen in groups of pots, each planted individually with a different herb, or a larger pot planted with several herbs, both methods work well. Simply provide your plants with a few basic needs a suitable container, a growing media, water, nutrients, and light, and watch them grow! Growing your own herbs provides you with a continuing and satisfying hobby in addition to the culinary benefits.

One great way to think about planting a handy little patch of herbs is to consider the Potager style of garden.

A potager is a French term for an ornamental vegetable or kitchen garden. The historical design precedent is from the Gardens of the French Renaissance. Often flowers (edible and non-edible) and herbs are planted with the vegetables to enhance the garden's beauty. The goal is multipurpose, making the providing of food aesthetically pleasing.

A simple but attractive potager can provide food, cut flowers and herbs for the home with very little maintenance. Plants are chosen as much for their functionality as for their color and form. Potagers can disguise their function of providing for a home in a wide array of formsfrom the carefree style of the cottage garden to a greater or lesser degree of formality.

PS: Nearly all herbs start from seeds, an option today is choosing to purchase one of the newer and very attractive herb Areo garden kits.

by DJ
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