| Tips For Making A Potted Herb Garden | | Print | |
| Written by Lee Dobbins | ||||||
| Friday, 25 July 2008 | ||||||
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Making a potted herb garden has many advantages over regular outdoor gardening. For example, you can bring the potted herbs indoors during the colder months where you have better control over conditions such as soil contamination and light. It's easy to ensure that nothing gets into the pot to contaminate the soil if it is indoors, likewise, you can move the pot into or out of the sun to control the amount of light.
Making a potted herb garden has many advantages over regular outdoor gardening. For example, you can bring the potted herbs indoors during the colder months where you have better control over conditions such as soil contamination and light. It's easy to ensure that nothing gets into the pot to contaminate the soil if it is indoors, likewise, you can move the pot into or out of the sun to control the amount of light. Sometimes growing herbs in pots can be difficult because pots do not offer the same moisture control and necessary nutrients as outdoor soil does. Many herbs do fine in pots with some extra attention from the grower. These hearty herbs include basil, dill, mint, sage, and lavender. Begin with quality seeds. Because they are like any other natural food product, they have the potential to spoil. The airborne spores present in the air can attack them. Oxygen is able to react with numerous organic compounds. It is easy to obtain fresh seeds and to keep them this way. To do this, you need to read the packages to check the date. It is also necessary to throw away seeds if they get wet. When making a potted herb garden you do not have to keep them indoors. It is possible to grow your herbs inside or outside. Either way you choose, you need to know the amount of sun that each plant should have. There are herbs that like full sun, while others grow well when placed in partially shaded areas. Make proper preparations to the soil and make sure the amount of moisture is sufficient. Lavender enjoys the sun and needs an alkaline soil that is dry. Clay chips will maintain the moisture in a pot, but this can also lead to too much moisture. When in a container, the clay will absorb the moisture and hold it for extended periods of time. You should make sure that your soil contains a mixture of sand and clay. Root rot stems from an excess in moisture. This is the most common problem that plants grown in containers will experience. Although some plants prefer to be wet all the time, herbs like a dryer soil. Remember that moist doesn't mean soaked. When you press your thumb on the surface of the soil it should be springy if it's moist. If it is dry, on the other hand, it will be hard. You can insert a toothpick or moisture gauge into the soil also. When you remove the toothpick you will be able to tell whether the soil underneath the surface is dry or moist. The gauges are able to give more useful and precise reading. Making a potted herb garden offers many advantages to the grower. It is easy to maintain and will provided fresh herbs all year. The pots should be kept outdoors in summer, but not in direct sunshine, and placed inside near a window in winter. Article Author: Please visit http://basicherbgardeningtips.com/ where you can learn about different types of herbs and find out more about making a potted herb garden.
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