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Household sustainable living. The Spiral Garden, a sustainable home garden design.

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Lets talk about the spiral garden and why its shape and building materials are so beneficial, aesthetically pleasing, and why it is a functionally sustainable home garden design. In a 6 by 6 ft square space, when utilizing the vertical aspect of the spirals potential, you gain about 22ft of plant-able space that is easy to reach without the worry of trampling under foot other plants in the time of planting, watering, or harvest. The Spiral: Natures Perfect Design When constructing the spiral garden keep in mind the location of the sun and try and coordinate the best place and direction to have the tail of the spiral face.

Usually it is best to have the tail of the spiral be a shady spot. Soil: Soil is expensive to buy, especially several bags of good organic soil. Herbs, Tubers, grasses, peppers, berries, and flowers: Plants of The Garden Spiral: Flowers: These flowers are edible, attract bees, repel bugs, and are very beautiful also! 1. 4 Step Guide to Building a Herb Spiral. Want to make your own vertical herb spiral garden?

4 Step Guide to Building a Herb Spiral

This compact space saving design can be made with just a few basic steps. Construction materials and methods vary so after deciding on the best position and gathering your materials, you can have one built the same day. Depending on your budget and taste, herb spirals can be made very economically or be quite elaborate like this one with stone filled gabion walls. * [The original link to this image (via Cara-Ornamentals) is no longer available.

I have no control over this & apologise for any inconvenience but you'll find alternative resources below.] If you like this particular design and want to learn to make the curved wire baskets, see the end of this post for videos & wire basket suppliers for Gabion Herb Spirals. Materials you’ll need Cardboard (without ink or tape), weed mat or gravel – optional but useful to kill weeds if building your spiral straight on top of lawn. Location Herb spiral with compass points. How to Build Your Spiral. Perennial Herbs - Growing Sorrel and Lovage in Your Herb Garden. Thursday, September 05, 2013by Helen Gazeley - Categories: herbs, salad < Back to the GrowBlog Index Low maintenance, high flavour.

Perennial Herbs - Growing Sorrel and Lovage in Your Herb Garden

How irresistible is that? Two perennial herbs that I wouldn't be without are lovage and sorrel. They also pack powerful flavours. Even more happily, if you know about one, you pretty much know about the other. Both form a clump up to two feet wide over several years, but rather than giving over precious ground to them in the veg patch, I've put mine at the back of flower beds, where their tall, but not very showy flower spikes give height, reaching up to six feet, during the summer. How to Grow Sorrel Although I like to grow sorrel as a perennial, you might not feel the same. Cooking sorrel for the first time can result in a bit of a shock.

If you want sorrel as a perennial, then it's a good idea to sow a number of seeds, either where you'd like them to grow or in pots, and then thin them out or transplant them to 12 inches (30cms) apart. How to Grow Lovage.