How To Grow Herbs

A popular dark green, evergreen shrub, bay trees are often grown in containers which are placed either side of an entrance way as an attractive decoration. 

Basil is one of the UK’s top ten herbs and it is very easy to grow, even if you just have your kitchen windowsill to grow it on. So give it a try! 

With attractive, edible blue flowers, borage is a really easy to grow annual and will look attractive in a cottage garden, vegetable garden or raised bed. 

Also known as the ‘pot marigold’ the herb calendula is part of the sunflower family and has distinctive, bright yellow and orange blossoms. 

Often mistaken for a weed, caraway is an herbaceous biennial grown mainly for its slightly aniseed flavour seeds used in breads, sauces, etc.

Easy to grow from seed, chamomile is an attractive addition to a herb collection and can be grown directly in the ground or in containers. 

Chervil is a culinary herb related to parsley and cilantro. This fast growing herb has ferny leaves with a delicate flavour that are used in many dishes.

A popular herb used in many egg, potato or cheese dishes, chives are a member of the onion family and have mild, onion-flavoured leaves. 

Comfrey is an attractive addition to any garden and is a gardeners best friend making a fertiliser packed with nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium.

Coriander is an annual aromatic herb with bright green leaves on long thin stems. All parts are edible, with the fresh leaves and the dried seeds usually used.

With a mild aniseed-like flavour dill is a popular herb used in salads, dressing and dips. It also compliments fish, egg and potato dishes. 

Elderflowers are flat-topped clusters of tiny, creamy-white flowers. They are used to make cordial, added to cakes, desserts and salad dressings.   

Really versatile, fennels bulb shaped base is used as a vegetable, its feathery fronds are used as a herb and its seeds are dried and used as a spice. 

Fenugreek (methi) is a Mediterranean herb. It tastes like maple syrup, has leaves like clover and is easy to grow in the ground, growbags or containers.

Are you surprised to see garlic featured on a page for herbs? Technically a vegetable, garlic is also called a herb or even a spice online.

Ginger

Ginkgo

Ginseng

Horseradish

Lemongrass

Linseed

Lovage

Lungwort

Marjoram

Oregano

Parsley

Peppermint

Rosemary

Sage

Sorrel

St John's Wort

Tansy

Tarragon

Thyme

Turmeric

Valerian

This Grow Your Own Kit contains 24 different varieties of herbs.

Garden collection - Borage, Chamomile, Chives, Fennel, Lavender and Spearmint.

Classic collection - Cress, Dill, Leaf Celery, Parsley Curled, Sage and Thyme.

Aromatic Collection - Coriander, Cumin, Garlic Chives, Mizuna, Rocket Salad and Thai Basil.

Mediterranean collection - Sweet Basil, Lemon Balm, Oregano, Parsley, Rosemary, Wild Marjoram.

This All-In One Kit makes the perfect gift for a new herb grower and includes:

Three terracotta pots - 5 inch diameter pots with matching sauces.

Six different types of herb seeds - Basil, Parsley, Coriander, Oregano, Chives and Peppermint and matching bamboo labels.

Three blocks of soil - in the form of expandable coconut coir (soil) and fertiliser for planting (sufficient to fill three pots).

Delve into a delightful assortment of herbs with this kit which includes over 8,700 seeds to cultivate 12 popular culinary herbs:

Basil, Thyme, Spinach, Mint, Rosemary, Garden Cress, Rocket, Dill, Parsley, Coriander, Chive, and Lettuce seeds.

All these can be easily be grown indoors in your kitchen or outdoors in the garden or greenhouse. 

There are actually enough herb seeds to do both!

Grow your own herb garden with this bundle of sustainable goodness. 

This reusable herb kitchen garden seed kit is plastic-free and features organic seeds to grow your own kitchen herb seeds. 

You will receive organic basil seeds, chives seeds, mint seeds with nurturing coconut seedling pellets for the three pots you receive.  Together with some bonus dill seed for you to try!