Useful Aromatic Herbs for a Culinary Herb Garden

It’s easy to grow useful and attractive culinary herbs. 

Your culinary herb garden will be a valuable source  

of ingredients for thekitchen and you will be rewarded

 with wonderfully fragrant fresh herbs immediately 

on hand for cooking and for the salad bowl. 

 

The best way to guarantee a supply of fresh herbs is to

create your own culinary herb garden.

 

       

                   

 Good perennial herbs that will grow all year                 

 round are parsley, thyme, marjoram, 

 tarragon, chives, and winter savory. These 

 herbs can be grown from seed but are best 

 bought as young plants from garden centres 

 or nurseries.

 

Annual herbs such as mint, sweet basil, 

coriander, chevril and dill can be grown from 

seeds from late March onwards.  They can be 

sown

in seed compost in shallow trays under 

glass, or on the windowsill or outside in 

shallow drills and then thinned. 

    

Alternatively, you can buy young plants for your culinary herb garden from garden centres or nurseries in the spring. 

Some culinary herbs like sage and  

rosemary need space to develop, but

most of the common herbs that we  

use can be  grown in a very small plot.  

Lavender, rosemary and bay are hardy 

evergreen herbs that are ideal for a 

small space and make a decorative 

contribution to the scene.