Container Gardening: herbs
Most herbs grow well from seed. They can grow so easily that often are considered plain weeds. In cases of herbs such as sage, you can spread plants from seed indoors. While such seedlings often need dark, warm, damp and unchangeable conditions, they grow well in small containers indoors. You can later transplant or move your herbs outdoors once the sprouts take roots.
Try growing parsley in your garden. It needs at least six weeks to germinate, so you should have some patience and a little water and fertilizer. Think over planting parsley and carrots together, as this herb repulses carrot flies. If you’re growing your first container garden, you may also think over growing varieties of mint, as it grows easily and you can choose from a plenty of them - apple, orange, ginger and curly – are just some of them. Since mint cross-pollinates very easily and loses its flavor for this reason, it should be as a prime container plant. This way you will avoid cross-pollination. Unlike parsley, mint cannot be propagated from seed but can from cuttings. Mint also likes larger pots. Once you have planted mint, it can be harvested at any time, so you can enjoy this herb early and often.