herb gardens not only produce tasty plants that can be used in your customer’s cooking, they also create beautiful focal pieces in a landscape and leave tantalizing scents throughout the area. herbs play a crucial role within the walls of the kitchen, but they can also play an important part in a garden. along with spicing up your customer’s culinary creations, herbs can also serve as a ground cover in the garden. having herbs surrounding the bottoms of other edible trees not only looks good, but it can also bring in pollinating insects. there are many types of herb gardens, such as a cooking herb garden, medicinal, ornamental, knot, colonial, fragrant and windowsill to give a few examples. this gives your customers multiple options when choosing which type best fits their lifestyle and needs. location and soil prep herbs are fast-growing, so your customers won’t have to wait very long to get the tastes and smells they crave. depending on the type, herbs can thrive in the sun or shade, but the majority of them will require at least six or more hours of sunlight a day. customers may also want to keep the concept of convenience in mind when it comes to their herb garden, so consider planting near the kitchen or house to make it easier for them when it comes harvest time. once the location is decided upon, it’s important to check the surrounding soil. be sure that wherever these herbs are planted that they have well-drained soil, a good watering routine and either a bit of compost or fertilizer around them. if the soil is heavy with clay or is sandy, add an ample amount of compost to the mix, and even if the soil is in fairly good condition, working a bit of compost into the soil will help give it the added nutrition the herbs will need to grow. however, be sure to avoid composted manures when growing an herb garden. typically, these are high in nitrogen, which can help make herbs grow more quickly, but it can reduce the flavors they produce. choosing, pla