Content
- The best time to plant herbal beds
- To each (herb) the Seine
- Plan the design of herbal beds carefully
- Indispensable herbs for different soils
- Attractive herbal beds easily self-built
- Tips
With their own herb bed, fresh herbs are always on the table
The best time to plant herbal beds
Surely you have already this year some yields from your herb bed brought down and the first chives, marjoram or dill taste good. Nevertheless, June is an ideal month to quickly start a new herbal bed. For example, kitchen herbs such as savory, basil, marjoram and parsley can still be sown. Other varieties, such as rosemary, sage or thyme, can be found in specialist shops as container plants if they are to go faster. Discounterware should generally be dispensed with in favor of a high quality, since the plants are usually artificially bred and therefore you will enjoy only for a short time.
To each (herb) the Seine
Anyone who has been cultivating plants for some time knows that a distinction is made between different areas of life within the garden. It is the same with herbal rearing, which can be subdivided territorially into the following places:
It is also interesting to know which herbs thrive best in which of the six areas of life and which are compatible with each other. The following overview is based on decades of experience and was taken from the book "Cultivate Herbs" by Andrea Heistinger.
Even if we talk about a herbal bed, we also like to grow single or perennial flowers, grasses or perennials. However, an important prerequisite for the success and highest yields of your herbage is a completely tree-free area, which may be exposed to direct sunlight.
Plan the design of herbal beds carefully
Especially important for consistently strong herbs over many years is that you have the most accurate idea of where the plants should find their new place. If then the distances and the "sociability" of the different species to each other agree, you will soon find that develop over several growing seasons very impressive and fertile herbal beds.
Indispensable herbs for different soils
Although you will not be planting the following herbal species until June, the chances of a plentiful harvest until September are still excellent.
Examples of promising plantings of your herb bed in June
Attractive herbal beds easily self-built
The two rondels pictured in the photos were not built in one day, but they were very inexpensive. For the two rings were used:
The soil was first dug a good 15 cm deep to then pour an eight cm thick foundation. Shortly below the bottom edge, the first layer of stone was laid into the not yet hardened concrete mix. After drying, again cement, the second layer of gravel etc .... etc…. As a filling for the rondelle a mixture of self-made compost, mulched grass clippings and a thin layer of rock was used. The twice-yearly nutrient feeds were made in small quantities with organic fertilizer mixed with emaciated topsoil.
Tips
Every autumn, you dig out the perennial plants, depending on the development, and divide them before reinserting. The floor does NOT have to be loosened every few weeks and you can leave even larger stones in the soil, because they have a heat storage function and look very decorative on top of that.