Container Herb Garden

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Container Herb Garden

A container herb garden is a quick and easy way to enter into the world of herb gardening ….If you start herbs from seed, or purchase seedlings at the garden center, this page provides the tips and information you need to grow herbs in containers or pots.

There are many benefits of gardening with containers and pots.

Whether you rent an apartment or just don’t have the space or yard for an herb garden, you can still enjoy growing herbs in pots and containers.

Those with enough space and a desire to have an herb garden – but no time to plant, water and weed ,will also find that growing herbs in pots can be a solution.

Herb gardening in containers is the answer. First of all, herbs are easy to grow, and will tolerate a bit of drought if you forget to water them. Second, container gardening takes up little space, and is low maintenance.

I just planted my seedlings in the picture above. I have my kitchen garden with basil, parsley, thyme and chives planted together in the pots.

They'll grow quickly in the next month, and I'll be able to snip and use in no time. As you can see- the herb garden takes up hardly any space at all, and I can move the pots around so that they get about 6 hours of sun.

A container garden is ideal for indoors as well as oudoors. The key to both is tons of sunlight.6-8 hours is ideal.

Experiment with herbs in containers while deciding on a permanent location.It's easier to move a pot around rather than dig up a plant.

Growing herbs in containers helps to keep invasive herbs such as mint, catnip, or bee balm under control too. These prolific herbs can take over a whole garden in a year if planted directly in the ground and not attended to. It's much easier to plant these herbs in containers.You can also plant a plastic pot( with the bottom cut off) into the ground and then the herb- the roots will grow down the the plant won't spread as fast.

Use containers and planters in your herb garden that are mobile and can be moved around as needed. Place them by your back deck or patio for easy snipping to add to your favorite dish. Now that’s fresh!

If you place your herbs by your front door, your guests will be treated to a wonderful homey scent when they come to visit.

Container Garden Herbs- What kinds of herbs to plant ?

Most herbs will grow well in containers if treated right.

If you're just starting out growing herbs, then I suggest that you begin with easy to grow common herbs for your container herb garden.

Basil, thyme and parsley, are 3 great herb plants to start with. They are very easy to grow – and probably herbs that you’re already cooking with in a dry form.

Take a look at the page of common herbs (this will open a new page) to give you a list of herbs to consider.

Plant any of these in containers and have some fun.

Generally people plant what the like to use in their cooking. Everyone has different tastes, likes and dislikes in food. Review the Cooking with Herbs page.

As you gets more adventurous, you’ll want to research other herbs to grow in your container herb garden.

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