Common Mistakes

Buying a plant

When buying a young plant, they neglected the purity of the variety and origin. This can lead later to disappointment due to the quality and quantity of products received. Damaged pests or diseased plants can, through carelessness, infect the entire garden. Solution: , when purchasing plants, check their quality, carefully inspect all plants for signs of disease.

Location

A garden with herbs is located in the back corner of the garden. Since the herbs do not fall in the field of vision and are located far from the house, they are less cared for and gradually begin to be treated without due attention. Solution-, break the garden with herbs near the house.

No sun

The herbage is located under the trees or in the shade of the house.

Solution: most herbs need strong sunlight, otherwise they lose flavor and taste.

Soil preparation

The soil of the unilluminated site was not carefully prepared, so the grasses develop poorly and look oppressed. Solution:

on previously unused plots of land before laying beds with herbs you need to grow green fertilizer.

The plot is too tightly planted

The plot is small, and therefore the grass is planted very densely, many seeds are sown, and the shoots are not thinned on time. Herbs are stretched upwards and because of the high density they are especially susceptible to diseases and invasions of pests.

Solution: observe the distance between plants necessary for normal development.

Sowing is too early.

Some herbs were sown before the required time, exposed to cold temperatures, and their growth is severely suppressed.

Solution, basil, marjoram, nasturtium, dill, portolac and other herbs are subject to frost and should therefore not be sown until May.

Planting

Planting did not take into account the height to which the plant will grow in the adult state, resulting in incompatibility with other planted plants. Solution: consider the size of the plant in the adult state, observe the basic rules of plant placement, taking into account their needs in the living space.

Crop rotation

Sowing crops in the spring for their usual former place of culture start to hurt for no apparent reason and even die. The same can occur with certain plant species sown on the plot after any crops. Solution: is the reason for non-compliance with the sevoyobrosta. Carefully study the susceptibility of plant families to certain diseases. So, anise, planted on a bed, where a swarm of coriander, can be struck coriander seeded .

Application of fertilizers

Before planting and during the growth of the crop, the earth was thoroughly fertilized mainly with nitrogen fertilizers.

Plants get an excessive amount of nitrogen, look "fat" and therefore are prone to disease, lose flavor, typical taste, and also have less healing and spicy properties. Solution: restrict the application of mineral and organic fertilizers.

Watering

The lack of additional watering in extremely dry moments slows the growth of grasses. Clay soils can become too compact. Solution, with the help of careful mulching and regular loosening of soil can in many cases prevent such a situation.

Harvest

The collection of herbs was not performed in time, and therefore the quality of the collected plants is not.satisfactory.

Solution, observe the exact collection time of plants and their parts, individual for each species.

Perezymovka

Even fairly hardy plants have been hibernating badly and in the spring they look unhealthy and depressed. One of the reasons for this may be the later introduction of nitrogen fertilizers. They affect the accelerated growth of plants, stimulate the formation of tender fresh shoots. And this means that the plant will enter a period of cold weather with fragile young shoots, which can freeze, causing the oppression of the whole plant.

Solution: to exclude the autumn fertilization of plants with nitrogen fertilizers. Heat-loving plants are carefully covered, and some crops are transported from open ground to the room.

Decoration of the herb garden

Medicinal, spicy and aromatic herbs can be grown in orchards between vegetables and

ornamental plants. However, a very special atmosphere is created only in a separate grassy garden. If you plant a herb garden with love and imagination, using your own ideas, it will soon become the most attractive place in your garden, regardless of whether you plan it in accordance with strict architectural norms or do in a natural style.