how to Grow my own herbs for cooking non veg?”
I have been musing recently on a why I garden and who in fact drives what I do in my garden. This musing was bourne through my conclusion some months back that I am just not a veg grower no matter how hard I try. The decision to abandon my veg plot and convert it into a nursery bed proved to be more of a dilemma for me that I had anticipated and I found myself questioning why this should be. I have been gardening seriously for about 15 years now. Initially I had a tiny garden, almost a courtyard and I grew mainly annuals and shrubs. I had no idea what I was doing but it was my therapy at a time when my marriage had crumbled and I was left with two children under the age of 4 and no money. It was a stress relief to spend even a small amount of time weeding or cutting the grass (very small lawn). I grew the obligatory tomato plants which did quite well. I then moved to a house with about a quarter of an acre. Which may sound idyllic but this garden was on a very steep slope and had been
Garden Tips & Ideas Easy Steps to Grow Your Own Herbs By kbalmer Photography by Dreamstime and Elena Elisseeva Herbs are beautiful, aromatic and flavorful — providing a multiplicity of sensory pleasures that make them incredibly satisfying to grow. Lucky for us that’s easy to do with our cooperative Pacific Northwest climate. It may still be too wet and cold to garden outside, but why not start herbs indoors from seeds now? There’s no need to buy countertop growers; set up your own system that can easily expand once you get the hang of things. “Grow what you know you will use,” advises Patty Hicks, a veteran nursery worker and propagator who gives demonstrations on how to grow herbs. If you like basil for pesto and oregano for spaghetti sauce, plant that. Gardening — even something as easy as starting herbs — is part science and part art, says Hicks. “The first year I ever did any gardening of my own, I tried lavender and rosemary. I had no idea what I was doing, and I had success.”
