How To
Create a Herb Garden
The best way to enjoy herbs is to have them growing right outside the kitchen where you can harvest them just when you need them.
- Start by choosing a suitable pot. Yates Tuscan pots look great in every style of landscape and are available in a range of colours.
- Fill the pot with Yates Thrive Premium potting mix. It contains slow release fertiliser that will feed your plants for up to nine months. Added soil wetters in the mix improve water absorption – no more water runoff and wastage.
- Sow Yates herb seeds into the potting mix. Make sure you read the instructions on the seed packet for sowing depth and spacing. Most herb varieties can be planted at this time of year. Chives, basil, coriander, mint and parsley are all popular varieties. A bay tree or some upright-growing rosemary will add structure to your herb pot.
- Make sure you position the pot to suit the variety of herbs selected. Most herbs require sun.
- Keep the potting mix moist while seeds are establishing.
- Feed the young herbs with Thrive Soluble Plant Food every two weeks to make sure they grow extra strong and healthy.
- Begin Harvesting when the herbs have plenty of leaves.
Shopping Check List
- Tuscan Pot
- Thrive Premium Potting Mix
- Yates Herb Seeds
- Thrive Soluble Plant Food
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Valeria
Yates site member
19:31, 09 August 2011
Hi, I decided to start a veggie garden, for many reasons, but mainly because I love it! On the other hand, I am very concerned about spraying ... so I decided to produce my own veggies and herbs, so I can eat organically ... I was a bit worried and confused when a friend told me that the seeds I bought, might not be organic ... so I thought, I might be planting stuff that will grow organically, but the seeds are not ... for example, the Carrot (Manchester Table). Another question I have is, I want to maintain my veggie garden with only organic fertilizers, any advice? Cause I see that you advertise lots of fertilizers and things, but I don't think they're organic ... Can you please, give me a clear picture of this? And please, the whole truth, even if it hurts, because I don't want to plant or do practices that go against what I'm trying to achieve, which is eat 100% organically ...Thank you, Valeria.
jade
Yates site member
12:47, 20 September 2011
i agree withn you there
shaybe
Yates site member
14:48, 30 October 2011
i would like to create my owm micro herbs csn you please advise if there are particular seeds to buy
Barbara
Yates site member
20:16, 21 November 2011
What does 'micro herbs' mean? Tiny herbs? tiny plants?
Nick
Yates site member
04:12, 11 December 2011
Sorry Valeria, it is completely impossible to eat 100% organically...you can get close(ish), but you'll never make it if only because a lot of things that claim to be organic, aren't (there's very poor regulation of what is and isn't organic). You also have problems of contamination from water run-off from your neighbours etc. On the plus side, there's no real scientific reason to think that organic is any better or worse than non-organic, so hey-ho.
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