Growing and Caring for Herbs (in General)

I've always rather avoided gardening, finding it particularly tedious when forced to spend endless days at garden centres by my parents. For some reason, however, over the last couple of years this interest has rather snuck up on me and I am now the rather over-excited owner of a full blown garden with veggie patch. Some of the first few plants I started to grow were herbs. Herbs have many advantages for the novice gardener, so here are my thoughts on growing them. ~Inexpensive~ For those who like to start projects and then quickly get bored of them, or those with shallow pockets due to the credit crunch, herbs are marvellously inexpensive to buy. Our ...  Read the complete review

When we renovated our house we removed the bathroom suite and replaced it with a new one. I pondered over the bath we'd taken out, what could I do with it? I decided to use it as a herb garden. So, whilst still empty we placed the bath in a partially sheltered area that receives plenty of sun, against a wall was the best place for us, then filled it with soil we'd dug out for the pond. I decided to try seeds first, it's always more of an achievement if you've grown something from seed so I went to the garden centre and bought lots, basil, mint, parsley, oregano, marjoram and fennel. I already had an established rosemary plant in a container along with a ...  Read the complete review

Herbs suffer pests and diseases just the same as other plants; this review is how to spot them and also how to deal with them. As you may have guessed I am very into organic gardening, which I use in my garden and on my allotment. It's not easy being organic as some pests are not very nice to pick of, but hopefully I will give you some advice to keep that dreaded chemical out of the garden. **Biological control Biological controls are becoming very popular with people demanding them, even on "A year at Kew" shown on the BBC was using them a few weeks ago. What is Biological control? Well it can be expensive for a ...  Read the complete review