After all the hoping and planning and sowing, I finally have my herb garden!!! Yes, I am very excited 🙂
We decided that we realistically don’t have the space for a proper spiral herb garden now that we have all of raised beds in the backyard (although I would still like to have a spiral someday). So instead, we utilized a portion of those raised beds by splitting a square section (approximately 30 inches X 30 inches) it into eight triangular sections. I then planted out all of the little starts I’ve been hardening off.
We have (top left to right): dill, thyme, sage and cota tea (direct sown) and (bottom left to right) dark purple opal and genovese basil, lettuce leaf basil, lemon balm and oregano. I can hardly wait for them all to fill in!!!
I labelled them all with permanent marker on a few of the rocks we have in our yard. Hey, at least a few of those rocks are good for something, right? 😉
oh nice! i really like the design of it.
Thanks, Trisha!
Beautiful design! Don’t fresh herbs from the garden make all the difference in the world to whatever you are cooking?
Absolutely! I can’t wait to just run out and grab a few herbs for random recipes!
This will be awesome! I think herb gardens are the most valuable thing you can grow…….just b/c herbs (spices) are so darn expensive.
Absolutely! They’re ridiculously expensive! Plus, they’re SO much better when they’re super fresh 🙂
Your herb garden will look so nice once the plants start in the wood design 🙂
start *growing* is what I meant to say…
Agreed! Now they look a little lost with so much space around them 😉
that looks brilliant, i love the pretty layout and rocks too 🙂 your raised beds are so brilliant!
Thanks, Astra! The rocks were a last minute (free) addition 🙂
I LOVE that design. You know I would have just built a raised bed and planted them around in different spots. That’s going to give you a design and keep the herbs more orderly. Awesome. I posted something on our blog last year about using a wagon wheel and since I will probably never find one of those, ha, I love this design. Thanks for sharing!
I LOVE the old wagon wheel design, too 🙂 Someday, when we have more space, I’ll get to choose how to organize my herbs, but for now, I’m super excited about this design!
Very nice – may you have many handfuls of herbs from your herb garden 🙂
Thanks, Dani! That’s the hope!
Awesome! I’ve been thinking about a spiral herb garden as well (but also realize it’s not happening this year). This is a great NOW solution. It looks great.
Thanks, Monika! I can’t wait it to fill out 🙂 Good luck with your bed!