Make Access Easy
When selecting the best position for your herb and veggie garden consider how easy it will be to get to, and tend the garden. First make sure that when planted each one of your herbs and veggies will be within arms length. It makes tending them a lot easier.
Next, ensure that you don't need to walk a mile, in the dark, through ten other garden beds, to reach your herb and veggie garden.
The natural position for a culinary garden is as close to the kitchen as possible. Simply because the closer the plants are to your kitchen door, the more likely they are to find their way to your dinner table.
But, bear in mind that many kitchens in the southern hemisphere are south-facing and receive limited sun. To a certain extent the same applies to a medicinal herb garden.
The perfect position should be in plain sight as well. Where you will pass it each day as you enter and leave the house.
An aromatic garden can be anywhere where you will be able to enjoy the aromas. Below windows. In pots, or next to the patio or pool.
One of the advantages of herbs is that they can be planted almost anywhere. So if you don't have the space to devote to a herb garden as such look for nooks and crannies in between existing borders and beds in your garden.
Don't discard the idea of a few herbs in containers, either indoors or outdoors. Herbs are exceptionally easy to grow as pot plants.
Source: The South African Herb Growers Guide.




