Starting An Herb Garden From Seeds
Place a pinch of seeds in a ¼ cup of sand and shake it up really well.
Starting an herb garden from seeds. Water the seeds and cover the containers with plastic kitchen wrap. Feel free to amend the soil of your medicinal herb garden with compost and aged manure. When starting very tiny herb seeds, be careful not to plant too many seeds close together.
Seeds can also be started in plastic bags or in coir pellets. It has big seeds, so it's easy to handle. Very tiny seeds need only to be pressed into the soil.
Cilantro seeds should germinate in 7 to 10 days. In previous years, we’d grow our seeds in trays (we used either seed starting trays or aluminum lasagna dishes to start our seeds in), and when it was time to harden them off, we had a greenhouse to do that in. Sow seeds in pots that can be moved directly into the garden or in a larger pot outside.
Place flats in a warm, sunny area. An inexpensive way to grow herbs is from seeds. When planning your medicinal garden deciding whether to start plants form seeds or seedling comes down to cost and availability.
My motivation for starting an herb garden from seed was the $4.99 price tag on a bundle of dying basil. It had been harvested, packaged, shipped, refrigerated, stored, and then offered for sale. This will create a mixture of sand and seeds that will provide for even planting.
A successful herb garden requires planning. To grow herbs from seed, prepare a tray or small pots with seed starting soil. Sprinkle one or two seeds lightly on soil in soil of each cell or pocket.