As long as a container can hold dirt and provide good drainage, it can become a place for planting herbs. Herbs are important to many gardeners since they like to use them for tea, tossed in soups and salads and the fragrant ones squished into little bags to just plain smell good. These can be grown year around, with some care, as they lend themselves handily to being grown on a windowsill.

Planting herbs could be done by planting right into the soil of your herb garden, especially if they are going to stay there, being perennials or biennials. Containers are many times used indoors during the winter to grow annuals or to overwinter a few sprigs of the other kinds, to be quickly stuck in the ground in spring. Seeds of many can also be sown right out there too, in early spring.

Frost has no business nipping your new plants in the bud, so plan carefully. Take into account your late spring frost date. Don’t jump too soon in planting herbs into the outdoor gardens or other outdoor areas.

It depends upon which herb you are growing as to when you need to harvest its parts. Then again, it depends also what you are looking for, the seeds, flowers or leaves. All can be used from different herbs, for tea, sachet or soup. Be careful to determine which are biennial, as they will only bear flowers every two years. No use looking for a harvest on the wrong year. Annuals will grow, mature and die in one season. Perennials return year after year.

Many materials are available for containers used when planting herbs. Unnatural items that have an open top and holes for proper drainage, when set in sunny soil, can make herbs thrive. Bury these things partially in the ground, in some cases, to keep the invasive roots of some under control. Many are downright nosy neighbors, invading the space of everything around them, if unconfined.

Mulching herbs left to hibernate in the garden is imperative to their successful return. Many kinds of things can be used to do the job. Certain leaves, like from your oak trees, small branches from your evergreens and the old standby, straw, will do a snazzy job. You must wait until the ground is completely frozen before covering it. Otherwise, the plants think they still have a chance at coming up and will try, only to be nipped in the bud by the freezing air.

Perhaps a little more expensive than plastic, ceramic or clay, are the containers made of teak wood. These will last for almost forever, so can be well worth the price paid. They are also very beautiful. Shapes of animals holding your herbs, like chia pets, can be fun for planting herbs as well.

Sachets, which are little bags filled with aromatic herbs, might be made from things grown from planting herbs from these planters. These herb planters can also be hung, like those that grow tomatoes. Hanging down from your patio or porch, they would look interesting as well as provide tasty things to eat.