Awe-Inspiring Examples Of Tips About How To Build A Herb Spiral
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Draw the circle on the ground.
How to build a herb spiral. Build up a mound using biomass (branches and twigs, leaves, straw, bracken etc.) as you would to create a hugelkultur (‘mound culture’) vegetable bed. An herb spiral is basically a raised bed in an interesting shape that creates planting areas of differing depths, sun exposures, and (if desired) soil textures. Subscribe and view more here:
The first step is to measure accurately. As for soil, we recommend applying either our custom potting mix or our garden i mix for your herb spiral. If you are building your herb spiral on grass, or bare soil, lay out cardboard to suppress weeds and reduce the number that popping up amongst your herbs.
Take a long stake and stick it in the ground where you want the middle of your herb spiral to be. Cover with topsoil / compost and then. Keep adding soil as you go, to give the spiral more stability.
Decide where on the ground you’ll make a herb spiral. How to build a herb spiral step 1: