How to Keep Your Herbs Growing

Herbs are smaller plants than vegetables, but often grow in home vegetable gardens to complement and protect the larger plants. Like most vegetables, herbs grow best in the warmth and sun of the summer season and die off with the first frost in fall. To keep your herbs growing through fall and into winter, keep them in pots. Put them outdoors in summer, and move them inside when cold weather approaches.

Pots
Organic compost

Instructions

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  Plant your herbs indoors in early spring, and put them outside only when temperatures warm to over 60 degrees Fahrenheit. Most herbs are sensitive to cold and should go into the outdoor garden well after the last frost of the season.
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  Fill 3- to 5-gallon pots or larger growing containers three-quarters full of organic compost to give the plants quick drainage, moisture retention and long-lasting nutrition. Use pots with drainage holes so your herbs get suitable drainage.
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  Plant your favorite herbs according to individual spacing needs. Give large plants like chamomile and borage at least 12 inches of space and smaller plants like parsley 6 inches of space. Plant herbs as seeds for better success.
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  Put the pots in a outdoor site where the plants get sun for six to eight hours every day. Maintain them in open spots of the vegetable garden, or keep them on your patio or porch for the summer.
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  Water the herbs with 2 inches of water every week to keep the soil moist around the roots. Never let the herbs go completely dry.
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  Move the herbs indoors before the first frost in fall, and put them in the kitchen or in a sunny windowsill. Maintain your watering schedule to keep the herbs growing during this time, then move them back outdoors in spring.

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