Potted Herb Garden
Growing a Potted Herb Garden Indoors or Out.
Potted herb gardens have some great benefits that other gardens don’t have. The biggest advantage is that you have flexibility over where you put your herbs. On one hand you can grow your herbs in smaller pots or even as a windowsill herb garden. This allows you to really maximise space. A secret technique that is becoming more popular with herb gardeners is to have multiple herbs gardens each of which grows many different kinds of herbs. This allows you to maximise the space and your garden’s harvest.
Many types of herbs also benefit from being grown indoors at the start of the season and then being grown outside later on. This is particularly useful if you have herbs that need to be planted in winter/ early spring as sudden frosts can devastate your plants. Often the herbs are initially grown indoors until they have begun to show some edible growth, then they are transferred outside so that they can propogate and create more herbs.
Another advantage of a potted herb garden is that your herbs can be transferred inside if there is a freak hot spell in summer. In your herb garden cilantro for example, can be a bolting plant if the summer is especially hot. This can leave the herbs that you spent months growing inedible, so it can be wise if you live in an area that is prone to hot summers to leave these herbs in pots.
Some plants have a really tendency to try and take over your garden. Ask anyone who has seriously tried to grow mint without some way of controlling its growth and chances are they will have a story of woe, as the plant tried to take over most of their garden! Some herbs are just like that, so for gardeners that want to harvest these kind of herbs, it is a great idea to use a potted herb garden as this will prevent the herbs from growing too out-of-control.
The final factor is sunlight, when you have potted herbs you can more easily control the sunlight that your plants receive. By moving your plants around a little you can shade them during hot parts of the day (For example to prevent bolting) or increase their sunshine if they are not getting enough where they are.
A potted herb garden can be great for gardeners. Either by themselves or with many other kinds of garden, they are a great way to really get the best out of your herbs.
