Everything you Need to Grow Your Own Herbs
Freshly dug soil is easy for squirrels to dig up and bury their nuts, ready for a Winter harvest. Your garden is their store cupboard. However they also forget the nuts and leave them to germinate the following year. Nobody wants an oak tree in a flower pot!
Deer resistant herbs will help to deter them from eating your more tempting plants, but nothing is foolproof in the depths of Winter when food is scarce. Use these herbs to line your flowerbeds. Rosemary, Lavender, Feverfew, Oregano, Thyme, Lemon Verbena, Russian Tarragon, Sage, Yarrow and Bee Balm.
We are all pressed for time and not everyone has the capacity for a garden that needs regular watering or feeding. No or low maintenance gardening is the way forward! … Continue Reading Low Maintenance Herbs That Will Survive Anything
The genus Mentha has more than 25 species sitting under it and an unknown number of cultivars within each species. Peppermint is the most common species and has the strongest ‘mint’ flavor. Spearmint is the next most popular and will have a much more gentle flavor.
These are the hardest vegetables to grow in the UK or similar climate zones. Where you have the wrong soil, not enough shade or daylight hours, or periods of frost, or even drought. Then these sensitive crops will fail.
When looking at cut and come again we have Evergreen and Herbaceous herbs to take into account. The evergreen type will take a good prune and harvest through the growing season, with a general trim before the dormant Winter. Herbaceous herbs will thrive with regular pinching out of new growth.