Content
- Build herbal snail yourself - DIY instructions for the garden
- Site Selection - Tips for Alignment
- Material purchasing and tooling
- Prepare base area properly - That's how it works
- Drywall build yourself - construction manual
- Filling herbal spirals - That's how it works in the DIY process
- Planting herbal snail - tips for the planting plan
- Tips
A herbal spiral made of stone is the simplest construction variant
Build herbal snail yourself - DIY instructions for the garden
Created as a spiral, your herb bed has the right twist to decorate the garden in a decorative way. A herbal snail can make the gross motorists among the gardeners in no time. This DIY guide explains how to easily build your own herbal spiral yourself.
Site Selection - Tips for Alignment
Choose for your herb snail a full sun, warm and sheltered location in the garden. The most popular herb plants thrive there in all their glory where they can bathe in light and warmth. The ingenious structuring as a spiral with orientation to the south creates a microclimate in which Mediterranean sun worshipers and native forest herbs feel equally at ease.
Material purchasing and tooling
This manual explains how to build a herbal spiral of natural stones with a small pond. The following materials and tools are required:
Use this guide as inspiration to make your individual design plans a reality. For the design of the frame a variety of alternatives are available for selection. Do you have a soft spot for modern garden design? Then add a stylish shape to the herbal spiral with stone-filled gabions. Sparfüchse use bricks or clinker for the spiral wall.
Prepare base area properly - That's how it works
So that at least 10 to 12 of your favorite herb plants find space in the spiral, the base should be generously sized. For a height of 80 cm and a diameter of 300 cm, please reserve an area of around 7 sqm in your garden. Cut the floor plan with laces and wooden pegs so that a snail's shape opens to the south. This guide summarizes how you can easily make the preparations yourself:
Where the herbal spiral opens to the south, mark the location for the small pond that you also build yourself. At this point, lift the soil about 40 cm deep to lay pond liner or use a pond tub. Here is dispensed with a gravel layer.
Drywall build yourself - construction manual
For the construction of a drywall, the natural stones are joint-offset and piled up without mortar. For the first row of walls, use the largest stones that you lay along the gravel foundation along the mark. Each succeeding layer ends 50 cm earlier than the previous layer of stone. In this way, proceed until the herbal spiral has reached a height of 80 cm.
Wherever larger joints arise, you can later use additional herbs with the help of plant bags. This horticultural gimmick enlarges the planting area, provides additional stability within the drywall and beautifies the appearance of your herbal spiral. Numerous beneficials of the garden will appreciate the hiding places.
Filling herbal spirals - That's how it works in the DIY process
An authentic herbal spiral stretches across different humidity zones and areas of life. In the upper region prevail Mediterranean, sandy-dry conditions. The middle area is reserved for herbs that prefer partially shaded, moderately moist locations. The base with mini-pond is reserved for shady, water-loving herbs. With the right filling, you will meet these requirements professionally. That is how it goes:
At the bottom of the herb spiral, fill the pond with a 5 cm thick layer of sand. Then lay the pond liner or insert the pond tub. The edge of the small water world you hide with natural stones or gravel. As a substrate for the riparian zone you distribute nutritious herbal or garden soil. If the water is filled here, the perfect environment for watercress and other marsh herbs.
Planting herbal snail - tips for the planting plan
Allow about 14 days to pass before planting your herb spiral to allow the soil to settle. For a varied planting we have put together these tips for your planting plan:
Upper, Mediterranean zone:
Middle, temperate zone:
Pond Zone:
Tips
If you plant garden herbs, it does not depend on the location alone. Not all types of herbs are good neighbors. Marjoram and thyme are at war. The dream teams in the herbal kingdom include fennel, coriander, tarragon and thyme. Dill, parsley and marjoram harmonize wonderfully among the annual herbs.