Container herb gardens may be relatively new, but herb gardens date back to medieval times.  Monasteries and nunneries grew them to provide the necessary medicinal benefits as well as to enhance the taste of  their food, and later, for decorative purposes.

Culinary herbs not only enhance the taste of food, but also provide necessary nutrients that aren’t found in vegetables.  Some of them are trace minerals and micro-nutrients that your body only needs a small amount of to function at its peak.

The need for medicinal herbs is just as great today as it was in medieval times.  Studies have shown that many herbs not only greatly improve the physical health, but also have an effect on mental well being.  You can have all these benefits right at your fingertips in your own container garden.

What I find awesome about herbs is that the culinary herbs are also medicinal, so while you’re enhancing the taste of your meal you’re balancing your system, and many times you can stop an acute illness with a simple meal.  Or you can use culinary herbs in teas for medicinal benefits.

Container herb gardening is a way for even city dwellers in cramped apartments to have fresh herbs either for culinary or medicinal purposes.

Making your container herb garden isn’t hard at all, but you do have to pay attention to a few small details.

•  Herbs don’t like rich soil.  They do best in a mixture of loam and sand with no fertilizer.  Be sure to cover the bottom of the pot with small gravel or pot shards to provide adequate drainage.

• If you plant several different varieties of herbs in a large container be sure they have similar growing need.  For instance, don’t plant mint, which likes partial sun and moist soil, with rosemary which likes full sun and needs to dry out a bit between waterings.

• When you take your bedding plants out of their 2" starter pots, the roots will be tangled and balled up.  Gently spread the roots out before placing them in the larger pot.  If you leave them in a ball, they won’t spread out and take in the nutrients from the new soil.

• You can make your container herb garden all in a single 12" to 16" pot, or you can group several small pots together on a patio, balcony or in a sunny window.

• Be sure to leave at least 1" between the roots and the edge of the pot.  The soil will offer some insulation against summer heat.

• Containers dry out faster than garden soil, so check often, but don’t over water.

Assess your growing area, determine how much room you have to dedicate to your container herb garden, which herbs you use the most or would use if they weren’t so expensive and start from there.  You can even grow an indoor herb garden and have fresh herbs year ‘round.  All you need is a sunny window.

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