Food and Medicine Garden

Food and Medicine Garden

Herbs are the plants that have medicinal as well as culinary use. They can be used in food to add flavor as spices. Most herbs are the wild plants and hence don’t require much care. They can grow without much care. Herb gardening is an easy task. You can make your herb gardening a more beautiful experience if you follow few herb gardening tips. Herb gardens can be planted in the smallest available place in your flower garden or they can even be planted in pots in your kitchen so that you can use them whenever required.
Herb Gardens:
The main reason of planting the medicinal herbs in your garden is that these species are mostly endangered. You can also use these herbs whenever required. Most culinary lovers will need the fresh herbs for cooking. Planting them at the hand distance, will be much helpful to get the herbs when required.
Medicinal Herbs:
• Bilberry
• Angelica
• Bistort
• Astragals
• Blue Flag
• Blackthorn
• Borage
• Chamomile
• Calendula
• Comfrey
• Coltsfoot
• Couch grass
• Cow slip
• Dandelion
• Fennel
• Feverfew
• Elder
• Geranium
• Hawthorn
Culinary Herbs:
• Coriander
• Thyme
• French Lavender
• Basil
• Bay Laurel
• Parsley
• Lemon Verbena
• Dill
• Chives
• Rosemary
• Sage
Above are some of the kitchen herbs that can be planted in your garden. Below are some tips to follow when you are planting these in your food and medicine gardens.
Herb Gardening Tips:
Herbs grow wild and they generally grow in full sunlight. Hence, whenever you grow herb garden, make sure that the place you chose for gardening receives ample sunlight. Most people prefer to grow the culinary herbs in their kitchen in containers. When you are growing them in pots or containers, you can place the pot in sunlight during day hours. Herbs also do not require frequent watering.
Harvesting of herbs is extremely important after their complete growth. If you do not harvest them on time, they will consume lots of plant energy and thus it will resist the plant growth.
You can plant the herbs in your flower garden or the vegetable garden. You can chop off the healthy portion of herbs when required. Some herbs are suitable for landscaping while some have culinary and medicinal use. It would be more stressful to cut down the fully grown rosemary in your garden or the thyme that forms a uniform border for your garden. But remember that these herbs can grow again and again.
Landscape herbs will add glory to your home while culinary herbs will add value to your meals. You can prune the herbs to encourage the fresh leafy growth of the healthy plant.