Herb Combinations With Food, Vegetables and Salads ... Page 1

Combination Of Herbs

If you intent to start a herb garden with a main view of cooking the herbs, you will be best off having a small herb garden or herb flowerbed. A tip is to plant the herbs you use most frequently in pots on your patio or balcony. An important aspect if you want your herbs to thrive is that they will only develop their full scent and flavour if they are grown in the correct position.

Successful Combination Ideas

The following is a list of well tried ideas:

• Small herb garden
• Herbs for edging
• Mediterranean herb bed
• Colour coded herb beds

As larger sizes of herbs are required for hedges, a good idea would be to propagate them yourself; from cuttings, by sowing or by layering. You can ever try your own herb combinations to see what works.

Herbs And Vegetables

The foliage of many species of vegetables is as decorative as flowers are. Both modern and historical examples of kitchen and windowsill gardens prove that colourful flowers and herbs grow extremely well together. When I talk of these in I am referring in particular to the annual and biennial herbs for cooking, these go well with Lettuce. Try the following colourful combinations for your herb/vegetable garden:

• Salad Burnet with Lettuce.
• Chervil with Lettuce
• Radishes and colourful Lettuces with Basil and Chives
• Lettuces and all annual herbs make fantastic partners