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- The best tips for the local herb garden
- Herbs with edible and decorative flowers
- Problematic parsley
- Basil belongs under the rain roof
- Sage is the perfect rose companion
- Thyme grows almost everywhere
- Refrigerated rosemary varieties
- Tips
Herbs can reach amazing sizes with proper care
The best tips for the local herb garden
A herb garden can be designed in very different ways: as a kitchen garden, as a flavor or fragrance garden or simply "only" a few particularly aesthetic specimens as well as decorative as useful element in the herbaceous discounts. As different as the herbs and their needs are, these tips make cultivation and use easier.
Herbs with edible and decorative flowers
Especially among the one- and two-year-old herbs, there are many species with flowers that are as decorative as they are tasty. For example, the pretty flowers of nasturtium are edible, in addition, the still closed flower buds can insert as caper replacement. Other edible flowers include: dill, chervil, borage, clary sage, daisy, calendula, chamomile or spiced agar.
Problematic parsley
Will your new parsley planting not develop quite so, even though it grew so great in the same place last year? It is probably because of this that it thrives so badly, because parsley is incompatible with itself. So you have to change the location for each new sowing because the plants otherwise run bad due to growth inhibition. By the way: The classic kitchen has a very long, sometimes lasting several weeks germination. In outdoor cultivation, you can sow some radishes as markers in between to keep the seed rows visible.
Basil belongs under the rain roof
In regions rich in precipitation, one should cultivate basil under Plexiglas or glass roofs or as a permanent crop in a cold frame. The sensitive plant gets enough light, but remains largely dry. In an excess of wetness threatens the basil wilt.
Sage is the perfect rose companion
The kitchen sage with its silver-gray leaves is an effective companion of roses in the discounts, provided the plants are not set too tight and the sage gets specially emaciated soil into the planting hole. The numerous variegated varieties are also wonderfully suited to the "queen of flowers": white variegated leaves complement white roses perfectly, yellow patterned emphasize yellow roses tone on tone.
Thyme grows almost everywhere
Thyme is characterized by a fascinating will to survive even under the worst conditions. The plants are so modest that they can gain a foothold virtually everywhere: in niches, cracks, joints, between paving stones, step plates and in stair niches. Creeping thyme species such as cascade thyme or sandy thyme are very suitable for planting of high stems, while the green lemon thyme thrives even in shadier places still well.
Refrigerated rosemary varieties
Rosemary is generally considered not hardy and already cuts the sails at temperatures from minus five degrees Celsius. Not so the variety 'Veitshöchheim' of the Bavarian State Research Institute, it can withstand temperatures down to minus 20 ° C. The varieties 'Arp' and 'Hill Hardy' are also considered hardy.
Tips
Its essential oils and other ingredients make wormwood an effective pesticide, which can be used wonderfully against aphids and mites, but also against various fungal diseases.