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Herbal Gardening 101, The Art of
Sustaining an Herb and Vegetable Garden: growing, maintaining, harvesting and preparing healthy food for your home.
Created byDonna Gibbs
Last updated 1/2026
English
What you'll learn
- Suggestions on how to design your herb garden to fit your alloted space and needs: Raised bed gardening, container growing, window sil growing.
- Discover which herbs repell insects and pests, which herbs attract tbeneficial insects and which bad insects are attracted to which herb.
- Some herbs are drought resistant, sucesseptable to root rot if too wet, others need lots of water. An irrigation system verse hand watering is discussed.
- How to prepare and preserve each individual herb. Each herb is unique in how to be dryed and preserved for culinary and craft uses.
- Discover how to incorporate herbs into your daily life, with recipes for in the home, your body and in the garden.
- When purchasing herbs and plants for your garden make lists: Which vaiety to buy, shade and sun requirements, how big will they grow, what are their companions.
- Maintaining herbs is constant: Buds and blooms need to be pinched off or the plant will go to seed, insects need to be controlled.
- Sit down first by deciding how much space you have, where the shade is in your garden and where the sun is most intense. Determine if your soil needs amendment
- The weather plays a big part in maintaining a successful garden. Mother nature is the boss. Water needs change as the seasons change.
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Course content
28 sections • 68 lectures • 3h 11m total length
Requirements
- No requirements or prerequisites needed except for a desire to discover how easy it is to grow and maintain an herb garden.
- Those who have an interest in learning how to grow and maintain an herb garden naturally.
- This course will ask the student to investigate what herbs and beneficial flowers grow best in their climate and environment.
Description
The Art of Herbal Gardening will reveal how to design and maintain an herb garden.
Each herb is unique in its growing habits and natural healing powers. This course will have basic needs and requirements for all herbs to survive and produce. Lavender, rose geranium, the rose, lemongrass, lemon verbena, rosemary, peppermint, sage and basil are spotlighted with their varied needs, benefits and uses in the home, on the body and in the garden.
We will touch upon how herbs are processed to produce essential oils and floral waters through steam distillation.
I am an aromatherapist who started my life's work studying herbs in the 1980''s. "Square Foot Gardening" with raised plots was emerging as the best way to bring fresh produce into our homes. I became intrigued. I started with community gardens moving on to a small back yard garden, now sustaining twelve raised plots with vegetables, herbs and fruits that I bring to my table every day.
My goal is to educate and share my love of nature working with the earth recognizing how herbs and vegetables can contribute to my extended family's well-being. Photography is my way to show you the beauty of nature and how it can best serve us..
I will offer ideas and recipes collected over the years, using your harvested herbs for culinary, home, body and medicinal uses. Thank you for your interest in joining me, and discover how The Art of Herbal Gardening can enhance your appreciation of mother nature’s offerings.
Who this course is for:
- This course is for those interested in learning how to begin planning, designing and growing their own "natural" herb garden for their own culinary and home care uses.
- This course is for those interested in how to prepare and preserve herbs, flowers and vegetables for craft projects, culinary and home care uses.
- For those interested in learning more about growing roses, lavender, lemongrass, lemon verbena , lemon balm, white sage, the mints and basil, rosemary and fragrant and rose geraniums.