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Plan Your Herb Garden
Before You Plunge In
Follow our simple
step by step process to plan your own herb garden.
How To Start Your Own Herb Garden
Herbs are some of the easiest, most grateful plants to grow. If you
follow the basic guidelines in
this series of articles, you will be richly rewarded with a
bountiful harvest of flavours, aromas and health giving properties.
Don't Panic - Go Organic
There’s an awful lot of hype around organic, but if you are growing your
own herbs or veggies to eat, it’s something you need to think about...
How To Make The
Most Of Your Kitchen Garden
If you want to start a small herb and veggie garden, or if you already have
one, check out these pages. Includes monthly to do lists, recommended
varieties and more...
How To Over-Winter Your Herbs
Herbs add soul to warming
winter cuisine and with a little bit of care you can keep a fresh supply
growing through frosty highveld winters.
7 Best Selling Winter Hardy
Herbs
These 7 best selling winter hardy herbs can be grown indoors as well as
outdoors.
Potted
Sunshine - Herbs and Veggies for Winter
Just the ability to pick fresh herbs or lighten a winter meal with a
scrunchy home-grown salad makes winter feel a lot less drab, grey and long.
Growing herbs and vegetables in winter does take a bit more effort and care;
after all its not their natural growing season. But growth does continue,
although at a slower pace and by choosing...
Spring veggies you can grow
Herbs and vegetables are natural
companions, in the sense that if you grow fresh herbs you’re bound to also
love the idea of harvesting your own home grown tomatoes, beans, lettuce and
anything else in season.
Herb Growing
Herb growing can be a fun and profitable venture. And it is not rocket
science if you follow the time tested advice and resources in this article.
Fertilizing Your Herbs
Making your
own compost teas
This is not for drinking but your plants will just love them. Basically
there are 3 types of compost teas you can make and 3 methods you can use.
Compost teas supply valuable soluble nutrients and bio-active compounds to
your plants. Best of all they are completely organic and inexpensive.
Herbal Compost
Activators
Producing one’s own compost can be
fun and very satisfying. The main principle to keep in mind is that all
plant matter can be used, as well as dust, dirt and ...
Herb Propagation
Raising Your Own Herbs From Seed
Many herbs are easy to grow from seed.
They may be sown in containers or, where large quantities are needed, in
a prepared bed of fine soil in the open.
Growing Herbs In Containers
Proven Mixed Herb
Containers
Herbs can be grown very successfully in
containers and can be an attractive addition to any garden or patio.
Apart from their aesthetic value, they are a practical solution for
people who have limited gardening space at their disposal.
Indoor Herb
Growing
Indoor Herb Gardening
Ideally herbs are meant to be grown in full sun, in
well-drained soil. Most come from the Mediterranean where they grow wild
on barren mountainsides. So they will grow best in the garden or in pots
outside the kitchen door or on your balcony, if it is sunny enough.
Pest
And Disease Control
Beneficial Bugs
Not something everybody considers as companion planting.
A whopping fifteen bugs that will help keep your garden free from notorious
pests.
Controlling
aphids
Many chemical insecticides are effective against aphids, but they also kill
their natural enemies. Ladybirds are one such companion
aphids don't like.
Herbal Ant Repellants
Even if they are a fine example of hard work and diligence, ants can be a
real nuisance. They can appear out of nowhere ...
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