Herb Gardening with my Princess!

While I was living in Louisiana I fell in love with herb gardening.  I loved being able to go out to my garden, pick a few sprigs and use the freshest herbs in my cooking.

Up here in Pennsylvania I needed to wait till the never ending winter finally ended and began planning my herb garden.  The trouble with dealing with a northern winter is i can't make my herb garden an outdoor thing.  I need to be able to bring it inside for the winter (so i can still have fresh, yummy herbs).

First I tried Google. I'm pretty sure the google search has landed me on a government watch list as "one pot herb garden"  brought results for cannabis and how to's on growing marijuana.   Bing may have been the better option to go with but i abandoned web searches and just went to my favorite web page....PINTEREST.

I found this....

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on Pinterest!

And I decided that this is what i needed to so I went to Walmart and to Pettis Road Greenhouse to get my supplies.

Walmart irritated me.  I went in and quickly found the pots that i needed, and then i found the potting soil i needed and the fun began...  I am almost 33 weeks along in my pregnancy and the 1cubic foot of potting soil was on a pallet on the floor.  I asked someone working out in lawn and garden for help. He seriously looked at the bag of soil and then at me and goes "you know it's really not that heavy."  We won't get into the woman in grocery who never even looked at me when she answered my question and THEN sent me to the wrong isle.

Thankfully the greenhouse was much more helpful and it took me less than 15 minutes to find everything i was looking for plus a few extras for Alayna's garden (will post those at the end of this).

Then on to make my herb garden...

Supplies: 5 pots.  1- 15" 2-8" 2-2"

pea pebbles (for irrigation)

potting soil

Herbs and other plants (I used basil, cilantro, parsley, mint, and lettuce)

Here is my garden helper!!

My herbs & lettuce

FIRST: Place one of the 8" pots upside down in the 15" pot.  Surround with pea gravel and fill the pot 3/4 of the way full with potting soil (i used Miracle Grow Moisture Control Potting Soil)

SECOND: Place the 2nd 8" pot right side up on top of the upside down one, place first layer plants (Basil - i planted two of them-, Cilantro, and Parsley)

THIRD: Repeat with 8" pot by placing one of the 2" pots upside down in the 8" pot.  Surround with a layer of  pea gravel and fill 3/4 of the way with potting soil.  Place the other 2" pot right side up on top of the one that is upside down, and place plants that go in that tier (I used two mint plants since mint likes to spread out and will eventually circle the whole way around the planter).

FINALLY: Place a layer of the pea gravel in the bottom of the 2" pot, fill 3/4 of the way with soil and plant final herb or desired plant (i chose lettuce).  Then fill in the tiers with potting soil till the soil is almost level with the edges of the planters.

And you have it! A Pseudo One-Pot Herb Garden... That has nothing to do with Marijuana (thank you very much Google!) 

Now to share my little gardener and her special garden (her plants are snow princess - the two white flowers-- and Orange Symphony).