subject: Growing Garden Herbs That Can Flourish in Window Boxes, Containers or Pots [print this page] Potential Role of Growing Garden Herbs Potential Role of Growing Garden Herbs
Growing garden herbs can be rewarding in many ways. Early civilizations relied on herbs for medicinal, culinary, religious, political and beauty purposes. In China, herbs are among the integral components of Eastern medicine. Even Indian's ayurvedic medicine cannot be complete without herbs.
Today, they are popular as ever. Herbs grace more home and commercial gardens, particularly that breakthrough in medicinal science has shown evidence of herb's potential role in treatment of various diseases.
Herbs can be grown indoor and outdoor from seeds and seedlings. Herb and garden enthusiasts who are not blessed with adequate outdoor space, to which a garden can be established, can still exercise their green thumb in indoor herb gardens.
They can flourish in window boxes, containers or pots placed on a patio, and even on hanging baskets from which flowers and foliage can hang beautifully. Fragrant herbs can be of particular blessing to a home whether placed outdoor near the door or indoor in the living room. The scent of some herbs can be therapeutic as well.
Growing garden herbs outdoor can be more versatile as herbs can be cultivated as ground covers, naturalized in a wild herb garden or pruned into hedges. Raised beds in good conditions can also provide shelter for many of the herb cultivars, especially for gardeners confined to wheelchairs and to a garden maintained for and by a blind gardener.
Herbs can sprout from seeds, cuttings and plants. They can also be bought from a garden center for a head start. Growing garden herbs from seeds provides more satisfaction as the grower can be an eye witnesses to the development of the plants, from the time it emerges from the top soil to the time of doing the harvest.
Cuttings can be made from existing plants to start a new. The cutting should be done in spring before the stems become very woody, however.
Planting Grass Seed
Planting grass seed can best be done in spring and fall, with each season having specific requirements for optimal results. Seeds planted on spring should not be applied with any of weed control products until the grass seeds have germinated and the grass has been mowed three times.
Fall season seed planting requires similar weed control precautions. The seed planting should also be time and monitored to enable the grass seed to germinate entirely before cold temperatures start in the area.
Selection of seed type is also crucial to the flourishing of the lawn grass. Grasses can be classified between cool season grasses and warm season grasses. Among the popular cool season grasses are Ryegrass, Fescues, Bluegrass and Bentgrass. To the warm season grasses belong the famous Bermuda grass, St. Augustine grass, Buffalo grass, Bahia grass, Zoysia grass, and Centipede grass.
Planting grass seed can be completed in five simple steps.
First, it is important that the grass is compatible with the zoning requirements and the type of soil a gardener has in his or her yard. An excellent lawn is cultivated from a good grass seed. The best grass seeds are the ones rated by the National Turf Evaluation Program. Growers can be assured that the seeds have been bred for an outstanding color, insect and disease resistance and drought tolerance.
Growing Garden Herbs That Can Flourish in Window Boxes, Containers or Pots
