Herb Trough Garden: Easy & Accessible!
For delicious herbs, try this DIY Herb Trough Garden: Easy & Accessible for your next outdoor project. Grow your own herbs right outside your kitchen door!
Friends, I realized as I went out to my herb trough to get fresh basil for my Strawberry Bruschetta that I never shared my Mother’s Day gift that I received this year.
When my family asked me what I wanted, along with love, hugs, breakfast, lunch, dinner, foot rubs, chores done, peace and quiet (I don’t ask for much, do I?) I asked for a trough garden to plant my herbs in.
So we went to the local Grange and purchased a brand new animal water trough.
Herb Trough Garden: Easy & Accessible!
In fact, they were all sold out of the size that we wanted, so we had to remove the baby chicks from the one we bought. We brought it home and found the perfect location (right off of our back patio).
We love to recycle and use what we have, so we took the kids’ old trampoline and stuffed it down to the bottom.
Filled the top with enriched soil.
Planted our favorite herbs.
My gift for today is having fresh garden herbs right outside our back kitchen door.
What a perfect idea for anyone, really, if you live in the city or in the country, to have herbs easily accessible.
Right now as our tomatoes are coming on, and the basil is so plentiful, I’m starting to crave Insalata Caprese Salad, (Mozzarella, Tomato & Fresh Basil).
If you grow herbs, would you share the way that you grow them?
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Any concern with using plastics, styrofoam, or other non-natural fillers at the bottom? I am concerned about chemicals leaching into the soil even if using a soil screen to separate.
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Hi – can you please tell me where you got the trough from? That’s the perfect thing that I’m looking for.
Thank you for sharing that idea! I love to cook with fresh herbs as well as
feel so blessed to just “look” at their lovliness while growing. You are
the best!
That is a totally brilliant idea. I wonder where I can get one here. We don’t have a Grange. I’ll have to Google. I usually container garden my herbs, except for the chives, sage and thymes are all in the ground. But I was just talking to Mr. G honey about some raised beds off the kitchen, but this would be grand. Very clever. Thank you for sharing!
That’s a wonderful idea! I have one bed in my raised bed garden for perennial herbs (although our winter was so harsh in the Midwest this year that a couple of them died!). I love the way it is all nice and green and lush right now, even though the rest of the garden beds were just planted.
I plant both regular basil and globe basil in the beds where I plant tomatoes that year.
I wanted to plant lemon balm this year but could not in my herb bed since it already has apple mint in half of it (I just pull up the roots from the mint when they grow to far into the other herbs space). Once I found out lemon balm is a mint, I knew it couldn’t be planted with another one (how did I miss that before I had to pull out my plant last year?). Anyway, I planted the new lemon balm next to the house, right in the area where the water hose spout is located… so far it works great.
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