Cooking Herbs
Planting your own herbs
Grow your own herbs for cooking fresh zest and flavor to your menu to add year round!
Is it an herb cooking or a Spice?
The first thing to know to choose which herbs to grow is the difference between cooking (culinary) herbs and spices. The cinnamon stick you in your warm chocolate or apple cider is a spice while the parsley on the edge of your plate is an herb.
Cooking herbs are usually the fresh or dried leaves of plants, while spices are the ground seeds, roots, fruits, flowers, or bark. Herbs grow well in temperate zones, while spices generally come from tropical areas. Herbs add subtle flavor, whereas spices are generally crisp and add more robust taste.
Herbs run the gamut of about 70 cultivars, broken into categories of medicinal, ornamental, and aromatic herbs and culinary or cooking. To begin cooking herbs grow, it is best first to select where and how you want them to grow.
Site Selection
Most cooking herbs thrive in just about any location that gives them plenty of light, good drainage and nutrition. Besides the outdoor garden spots, culinary herbs can be grown in patio containers, as indoor herb gardens or in greenhouses using soil-less growing techniques like hydroponics or aquaponics.
Outdoor Cooking herb gardens
For easy access, plant your herb garden as close to your kitchen as possible. Herbs grown in full sun, closer foliage, dark color, and higher levels of the etheric oils to add flavor to your recipes. Good air circulation and drainage are also important for the success of your kitchen herb garden. The size of your kitchen herb garden, of course, depends on the space you have available for cultivation. In general, an area of 20 by 4 meters accommodates a satisfactory variety of cultivars.
Much overlap the category of herbs. Border your cooking herb garden with some cultivars such decoration or aromatic properties as the culinary. Remember though that the main purpose of this garden for use in your kitchen.
Place cooking herbs that you use frequently in less conspicuous areas so you will not be big holes in your garden when you harvest them for cooking!
Most culinary herbs thrive under the same conditions as the growth of vegetables to improve them as such a natural addition to your vegetable garden. Some cooking herbs even have properties the common garden pests and to ward off diseases, which is an added benefit to your vegetables.
The best time to amend soil with nutrient-rich compost when you up your parcel. Herbs have coarse roots that benefit from chunky organic matter, which helps drain excess water and also helps provide good air circulation.
After planting your cooking herbs, skirting them with a two-three-inch mulch layer helps maintain soil moisture. Moreover, composting and mulching helps you maintain the neutral to slightly alkaline soil that most herbs prefer.
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