Kind Herbs
Growing herbs is one of the most cost-effective gardening you can do. For the price of a single serving of oregano or basil at your grocery store, you can buy a packet of seeds that will grow you ten or twentyfold that amount.
This year has been my most successful for herb gardening, and the secret this year has been using containers to grow multiple plants of each herb I wanted. Before, i would dedicate a small amount of ground space to a single plant each. Then what would happen is I could only harvest a small amount at a time, and it would take a week or two to grow back a usable amount. This year, I have 4 basil plants, at least 3 oregano plants, and 3 marjoram plants, and I can have fresh cuttings whenever I want. In fact, if I don't keep cutting, the basil threatens to flower and stop producing leaves altogether.
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You're so lucky you can grow basil outside. it's too cold here. flat parsley grows nicely though.
So do you just start the seedlings in containers and then plant 'em in the ground, or do you leave them in the pots?
yeah, i left them in pots this year. The pots are a variety of sizes from 6 inches to 12 inches in diameter (I'm using "containers" in the post as the generic term for anything not grown in the ground). I decided to go with pots this year also so that i could try to bring them inside during the winter and see if i could keep them growing.