Create Your Own Herb Garden

I love to be able to walk outside and pick herbs off bushes or plants in my yard. I have a rosemary bush that has been growing by the door to our music room for the last ten years. I use the rosemary twigs to season turkey at Thanksgiving or other meats throughout the year. It feels like cheating to not have to pay for the fresh spices!

Making a herb garden is super easy. It’s a great project for beginning our farming journey! I’m going to demonstrate how I made a small outside planter to hold my favorite herbs.

When I started this project, I was hoping to make a large planter box and include other vegetables. Ten years ago, I had an awesome waist-high planter made from bricks. But, I used the bricks to make pavers, so I had to improvise with this project.

Thankfully, I found a number of stones that we had taken off a wall in our great room (We always seem to have something lying around). I stacked the stones in a circle to create a small enclosure for my soil.

Next, we filled in the stones with soil. I used soil that comes with fertilizer already in it to minimize the work and maximize the yield.

For a few years we had a homemade green house. We grew our own plants from seeds. Since we tore the greenhouse down years ago, I chose potted plants instead of growing them from seeds.

If you purchase potted herbs, you only have to dig a hole in your new planter, take the herbs out of their plastic pots, and place them in the ground.