Growing Herbs
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This article approaches growing fresh herbs as taken in the context of growing all-natural and healthy herb gardens. Below are quick guides for growing the freshest herbs you would ever use.

Starting an all-natural garden may seem too expensive for most people. However, growing your own organic herb gardens can be done with really simple tools and techniques.

Step 1: Cultivate your own plants.

You could start growing organic herbs by starting with seeds. You could buy cheap organic seeds from any supermarket. When you have the seeds, you could grow them initially indoors. If this takes too much effort, you can get organically grown plants.

You should always use home-made compost. vegetables, fruit peelings, straws, grass clippings and dry leaves can be mixed together with store-bought soil. All these have the nutrients your plants needs. The moisture that it has will also prevent the soil from drying.

In cultivating your seeds, you need 12” by 8” tray with at least 3” depth. Fill in the soil. Make sure that your seeds will have the rows and holes they need. Water them gently. Have it covered with a plastic wrap. After two to three weeks, seedlings would sprout. Make sure that they have grown at least seven inches before you place them in separate pots. This is to ensure that the roots are strong enough and have fully accustomed to the soil.

Do not use fertilizers, pesticides or any synthetic plant grower. Animal manure can be used for fertilizers. Put two to three teaspoons of neem oil in your soil. Your herbs will be able to repel insects with this.

Step 2: Water your plants with alkaline water.

You do not have to buy bottled alkaline water just to have them at home. You could easily have alkaline water by boiling tap water. To do this, boil your water scalding hot. Let it cool for an hour. Boil it again. Your plants will have gotten the nutrients they need since the last boil would have produced enough ions. This would not cost you too much gas money, as you would only water your plants at most three days a week.

Step 3: Apply light mulch.

Light mulch is quite similar to the compost mix. It could be composed of straw, hay, pruned branches of evergreens and bark chips. Application of mulch is best during winter. The covering will maintain a balanced temperature for your plants so they would not wither under frost. Apply mulch only once a month. Never drench the mulch because when they get soggy, the roots would be suffocated.

Step 4: Clip the tip.

If you want bushy growth for your herbs, you have to regularly trim the tips of your plants. More leaves will be able to come out since this will make more stems grow. Clip every month, or as needed as some herbs grow rapidly.

Step 5: Tame the rowdy.

In trimming plants, you could repot the trimmed parts. The trimmed parts should have developed roots so they can sustain new life.

Put stakes, rods or sticks to limit the stretch of some herbs’ stems. These would serve as their guides in growing an upright position.

You could also regularly harvest leaves, flowers and stems to avoid overgrowing.

If you consider following these steps, you could look forward to growing fresh herbs. And you can enjoy your all-natural herb garden plants.

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