Creative Garden Design with a Mini Herb Garden
Posted: Wednesday, January 20, 2010
by Sarah Phillips
HerbGardeningCentral.com
When you are limited by space it sometimes takes some creative garden design to get the number and variety of plants that you want. A small container garden, sometimes called a mini herb garden, can meet these needs, whether on the top of an office desk or your kitchen windowsill.
It is easy to find several ready-made units by searching the internet. You can get as fancy as you wish, there was one with a sophisticated hydroponic system built-in. Of course your mini garden can be as simple as you like.
Now that you know the type of mini-garden, and which plants go in, choosing the containers is the next step. This is a mini so anything small will work, such as very small terra cotta or clay pots. There are some exciting options found online. One site teaches how to make a mini herb garden gift set. Another has instructions for using empty juice boxes as your planting containers. The ideas are limitless so just have some fun.
Grab the usual soil mixture for herbs, slightly alkaline using one tablespoon of lime and equal parts potting soil, clean sand, and ordinary dirt. Mix thoroughly, then fill your containers. Plant your seed, pressing about one inch into the soil. Lightly water and you are all set.
Your plants need light of some type, either sun or artificial. If you choose to place your mini-garden on a desktop then make sure the office lighting is adequate. A windowsill, or plant stand by a window, will provide sunlight with a south or west facing providing the most.
If you don't enjoy craft making or you wanted to get started with the least amount of effort you should strongly consider an herb garden kit. Today's kits are loaded with benefits, like have small containers and the soil premixed so that you can start immediately.
A particular favorite of mine is a kit called the mini-garden stacker that uses small stackable containers that, when assembled, resemble interwoven plants. "Mini-greenhouses" come with many kits for germinating seed.
Sarah Phillips is an herb gardening enthusiast, and enjoys helping others get started in this wonderful hobby.
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