Herb garden spiral fact sheet

Building a Herb Garden Spiral Fact Sheet Building a Garden Pond Fact Sheet

Herb spirals are a novel way of growing herbs with different growing requirements all in the one spot.

It is a simple way to improve your kitchen garden through a spiral of rocks enclosing soil in which species are planted.

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Choosing the Garden Pond Requirements The first thing that you need to consider is what type of pond that you want to build – one with You'll need: plants only, or one with fish and plants. This is because each pond needs to take into 1-1.5 m3 of rock or bricks consideration features that it has. Be careful that you don’t choose a pond that is too small as 1/4 - 1/2 m3 ofthe compost it20 will the amount of fish and plants that or limit 30 herbs you can use.

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Types of Pond

really make it bigger as you can’t reach the herbs towards the centre.

The spiral garden is sited to face north and the bottom of the spiral that ends in a small pond is situated south.

When building your pond, there are many options to choose from when it comes to materials.

One of the most popular is the lined pond. This is where you dig the hole to any shape that you

Step 1

Choose a spot for your herb spiral. It is best to construct this close to the kitchen, because most herbs are freshest when picked during cooking.

Building a Garden Pond Fact Sheet

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As it is built up, the soil is filled inside the two rows and so on.

Stack the rows of well. Here is our simple guide to what you need to know about building garden ponds. rocks one on top of the other whilst gradually building up the height and filling it with soil as it gets built upwards. The top of the spiral should end up somewhere in the middle, one metre off the Choosing ground. the Garden Pond

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These herbs are easily able the to see Be careful that the needdoes less water and will survive on the inside of the pond not get any runoff as better chemicals and spiral.

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This is where you dig the hole to any shape the kitchen. Water the herbs at the top of the spiral, how often will depend on the amount of rainthat youyou have recently had.