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The Beginner's Garden with Jill McSheehy

Q&A: Is it best to grow herbs in containers?

The Beginner's Garden with Jill McSheehy

Jill McSheehy

Gardening, Garden, How To, Education, Organicgardening, Home & Garden, Leisure, Homegardening, Beginninggardener, Vegetablegardening

4.4734 Ratings

🗓️ 25 September 2020

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Is it best to grow herbs in containers? Do they grow as well?  Here’s my perspective on growing herbs in containers.

 

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Herb Basic Part 1

https://journeywithjill.net/gardening/2017/05/23/herb-basics-part-1-basil-dill-cilantro-and-parsley-beginners-garden-podcast/

Herb Basic Part 2

https://journeywithjill.net/gardening/2017/05/30/herb-basics-part-2-rosemary-oregano-thyme-sage-chives/

Favorite Herbs to Grow and Use

https://journeywithjill.net/gardening/2016/04/18/favorite-herbs-grow-use/

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Transcript

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0:00.0

In today's Q&A, I'm going to answer a question I received about growing herbs.

0:06.0

Last week, I was filming some videos on harvesting herbs that will be part of the Harvest to Kitchen online course

0:14.0

that many of you guys have joined this year as the beta course, and then next year I'll be adding more videos.

0:20.0

And you're the first to hear, I'll be adding more videos and you're the first to

0:21.4

hear I'll be adding herbs to the course next year so if you're already a student of Harvest

0:26.7

to Kitchen you're going to get that as part of the course that you bought and if you aren't yet

0:32.3

then stay tuned because I will be talking more about Harvesta Kitchen next summer.

0:36.9

But all that to say,

0:38.3

I was filming videos on harvesting herbs because my herbs have experienced a explosive growth this fall,

0:45.3

and I posted a picture of them on Instagram. And then I got a couple of questions and two questions

0:51.3

that I received, I thought were really good ones that I thought a lot of people

0:55.4

probably have these questions as well. One came from Judy and she said, do you container grow them?

1:02.2

I want to have some near my kitchen door, but not sure about trying to grow in the container.

1:08.0

Will they grow as well as in ground and then Holly also asked I

1:13.1

have a lot of herbs growing in bags and I'm concerned about them being root

1:17.2

bound and not doing well after one season what do you grow in yours especially

1:22.2

perennials which are herbs that come back year after year she says she's

1:26.0

considering building an herb raised bed.

1:29.2

So these are questions I think are fantastic

1:32.0

and ones that lots of beginners probably have.

1:33.9

So I want to just give you my perspective

1:36.5

on growing herbs, especially in containers,

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