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Start growing herbs

A Kitchen Garden special supplement. • Originally produced July 2009.

Veg made easy

In the third of our FREE special supplements, we show you just how easy growing your own herbs can be. In it we take you every step of the way from choosing a suitable site and preparing your soil, to raising and caring for your own plants.

The herbs which we most commonly use in the kitchen or to provide colour and scent in pots and tubs around the garden are so easy to grow. In fact, we guarantee that if you follow the simple advice in this, the fourth of the FREE guides to be given away in Kitchen Garden in recent months, you will wonder why you were ever tempted to pay the high price of a potful of chives, coriander or parsley in the supermarket. Yet the sheer number of these pots grown and sold nationwide shows just how popular cooking with herbs has become in recent years.

If you don’t do so already, we hope this guide will encourage you to resolve today to grow your own and to sow some seeds or cadge or buy some plants and to start your own collection so that you will always have a flavoursome supply ready to hand whenever you need them.

To get you started, we have selected 13 of the easiest and most useful herbs and explain how to grow them whether you have a full-sized veg plot or allotment or no more than a balcony or window sill on which to grow your produce. And because most herbs are so decorative, often with pretty flowers and scented leaves, they fit equally well into mixed flower borders as they do into a bed, basket or growing-bag on their own.

Apart from the advice you will need on growing individual herbs, in this guide you will find essential information on growing herbs in containers, maintaining your herb beds and pots throughout the year, harvesting and storing herbs to ensure you lose nothing of their great flavour and some suggestions for using herbs in the kitchen.

We hope you enjoy reading this guide and that it will encourage you to discover and grow more of these useful and beautiful crops. Of course, you will find all the detailed seasonal advice you need in Kitchen Garden each month on the regular herb and jobs pages written by our experts. Make sure you don’t miss a single issue by taking out a subscription today!

Happy Plotting,

Steve Ott

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