Kitchen herb garden.

Sometimes you’re thinking of a seasonal recipe and it calls for a herb and you think of the times you have bought this “fresh “ from the supermarket yet have never have enough or any to hand. Growing your own kitchen herb garden is quite easy.

So planning your herb garden window box you need to consider the following. If the kitchen is on the sunny side of the house include chives, oregano, lemon thyme and then have some rosemary as this will drape over the edge of the box.
If your kitchen is on the shady side of the house then consider making a salad herb window box with wild rocket, chervil, French parsley and red mustard.
It’s very easy to grow herbs in containers using soil based compost, very few herbs grow in peat and soil based compost retains the moisture which stops the containers from drying out. Just water in the morning, especially if the window box will be feeling the force of the sun during the day. You need to feed the container plants weekly from March until September , as this keeps the plants healthy and also helps them produce leaves after being cut.