Getting Started with Garden Herbs

Since all the herbs and plants mentioned in this website are annuals, perennials, or low shrubs, there is no need to match the speed of spring with hasty planting. Herb gardeners can move most of the plants in their herb gardens, with a little care in watering, almost any time, and the seeds of annuals can be planted whenever there is a reasonable hope of maturity before autumn frosts. Herb Gardens are easily and successfully grown in a wide variety of garden planters and containers.

This gives one time for selection of herbs, and it is urged that you read the first section of this web site before deciding which herbs to use in your herb garden and where to plant them (garden plantes, simple containers or in-ground). You can then decide how many annuals or biennials you have room for in your herb garden, and these are all included in Section Two, arranged alphabetically under their common names.

In Section Three the perennial herbs, which comprise most of the plants in the book, are similarly treated alphabetically for convenience of reference. If you do not know whether the garden herbs are annual, biennial, or perennial, the index at the end lists all garden herbs both by their common and Latin names. Also, at the beginning of Section Two there are definitions of the terms, annual, biennial, and perennial, with their horticultural implications for herb gardeners.