5 Tips for simple and manageable medicinal plant garden

How to start a simple and manageable medicinal plant garden in your apartment? Here are some simple and useful tips.

Medicinal herbs are the blessings of Mother Nature. Not only do the medicinal herbs help in treating various mental, physical and emotional issues for humans, they are also used in a number of organic products. Medicinal plants are pocket friendly and grow rather quickly. The ease and affordability along with the positive beneficial feature of medicinal plants has made medicinal gardens popular across the globe.

Here are some recommendations to start a simple and manageable medicinal plant garden for your home.

Start Small: Focusing on quality rather than quantity is one the basic gardening principles that is apt for maintaining quality herbal gardens. Start out with one herb or a couple of herbs and watch them grow and understand about nurturing and methods to take care of the various gardening associated principles. Once the first few herbs bloom one can graduate to a bigger garden with more herbs. Slow and composite approach adds a sense of inspiration and renewed energy especially for first timers.

Focus on the Garden Design: The design of any medicinal herb garden plays an intrinsic role on evolution and growth of various herbs. While some herbs like yarrow and valerian look more beautiful when embedded in a flower bed, other herbs can compliment vegetables and best designed for garden corners. Instead of planting herbs in the garden in a random manner, it is essential to understand the underlining family of herbs and their association with other plants and herbs. This composite design approach not only makes a well designed garden that looks beautiful but offer greater yields. A raised bed in the middle can be molded into various landscape design holding medicinal herbs that require more dosage of sunlight than others.

Check Soil Nutrient Levels Regularly: Having a period checkup on the quality of soil must be embraced irrespective of the plantations. Since the soil is the most fundamental base providing various nutrients to the seeds, seedlings and plants, soil must be evaluated in certified laboratories to check for any possible deficiencies. The manure used in medicinal gardens must be of organic nature instead of chemical oriented to allow greater natural breeding ground for the herbs and plants.

Prefer Seeds over Seedlings: Herbal gardens can be built using various plants and medicinal herbs in either seedling forms or from basic seeds. The use of basic seeds in advised since they are more economical while they also help new gardeners or medicinal garden owners to understand the concept of care and nurturing required for maintain a herbal garden over a long period of time. Gardening is not just an activity but a way of life. The more the garden owner is connected to all aspects of gardening, the better the garden is likely to be maintained.

Embrace Pot Culture: Some garden owners do not encourage the use of pots for medicinal herbs. In fact some herbs have been seen to have a better yield in a small dedicated pot. The advantage of embracing pot culture for growth of medicinal plants is that one can then explore areas outside the garden base including raised beds, porches and even inside or outside the kitchen window. While embracing pot culture is a good idea, make sure that all those medicinal plants that become big and spread over a larger surface area like yarrow, burdock and mullein and allied herbs are always planted in the garden instead of pots.