Grow Fresh Herbs at Home
How and when to plant herbs: starting from seed, choosing transplants, hardening off seedlings and timing planting around frost dates.
4 guides published
Herb planting time depends on your frosts, not the calendar. Learn how to find your frost dates, and when hardy perennials, cool-season herbs and tender basil should each go outside.
A herb-by-herb decision guide for the garden center: which herbs are worth sowing from seed, which are easier to buy as young plants, and how to choose a healthy starter plant.
Move herb seedlings and starter plants into the ground with less stress: how to harden them off, pick the right day, plant at the correct depth and look after them for the first two weeks.
A practical walk-through of raising herb seedlings: reading the packet, choosing between direct sowing and trays, sowing at the right depth, thinning, and hardening off young plants for the garden.
