So you know that you want to start a kitchen herb garden and that is great, but how do you take care of it? Do you know how to properly care and maintain for an herb garden. If not, then obviously your kitchen herb garden is not going to be much of a success. There are a few tips that are going to come in very helpful if you are making a kitchen counter herb garden and want to know how to get started.

Getting Started

Often the most overwhelming part of having a kitchen herb garden is getting started, because people who have little to no experience with gardening really have no idea of where to get started with their herb garden. Basically the first thing that you want to do is learn a bit more about the most commonly used herbs and then pick and choose and decide on the ones that you want to include in your own kitchen herb garden.

Parsley is one that you are definitely going to want to include. This is a great herb to start growing especially if you are growing entirely indoors. This herb is biennial, which means that it grows for two seasons and then dies and will need to be replaced. Parsley is often called for in recipes and so it is great to have it handy in your kitchen, especially fresh because it tastes most delicious when you are using it as fresh as possible.

Another type of herb that you are going to want to have in your kitchen herb garden is sage. This is not only a tasty herb that you can use in a number of recipes, but as well it is an attractive plant to look at. It is always one of the lookers in any herb garden, indoor or outdoor, and one that you are going to want to include. Even if you are just a beginner gardener you are not going to find safe a difficult plant to maintain.

There is also thyme which is a perennial plant, and the common thyme grows up to a foot tall and spreads even wider. Thyme is also one of the most commonly used herbs in recipes and so it is one that will be well worth including in your indoor herb garden.

These are just three of the hundreds of different herbs that you have to choose from, so make sure that you pick all the right ones.