Plant your herb garden in style – Try a strawberry jar planter
Greetings greenies,
I opened my garden for the season (which includes two long planters and a couple pots) and decided to try something different for planting my herbs.
A Strawberry Jar Planter!
Since I’m new to planting, I asked a nursery clerk for her best advice on getting started with my very own herb garden. She suggested I pick up a strawberry jar planter as a nice way to display my various herbs. So I picked one up!
I also grabbed rosemary, lemon basil, parsley, red chili peppers,
All the rage this year, according to some nursery clerks, strawberry jar planters are a great way to show off your herb garden and manage the sunlight each herb desires.
To use the strawberry jar planter, it’s important to plant as you fill up the jar with soil. That means, don’t fill the jar to the top before you start moving the plants and herb in. If you do wait, you will make planting the herbs much more difficult and may spill out precious planting soil that you paid good money for.
When you fill up enough soil to reach one of the planter’s openings, stop and grab one or more of your herb plants.
I was able to fit about 2 plants in each shelf. Any more and your plants will be competing for sunlight. Try to limit the number of plants in each slot and give the plants room to breathe. They’ll thank you for it later.
Now plant as you go. Make sure the soil is filling up the nooks and crannies where plants will be growing, and also leave some space open for you to water. If your plants are crammed into the strawberry jar openings, you won’t have much room to work with when you water them.
Also, be sure not to plant rampant growing herbs such as mint in with the rest of your herbs and definitely don’t plant a vine in with the herbs. Those two items will eventually overrun the other herbs even though each plant is separated by the strawberry jar.
That’s it folks. Pick up a strawberry jar planter for about $13 bucks, or go with a fancy mossy-colored one like me for about $18. Not a whole lot more for a big jump in style.
Happy planting.
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Where did you procure such a nice looking strawberry jar? I’ve been looking for a nice simple terra cotta one for *ages*, mind sharing your source?
Great information ! and a excellent idea !
I have some Strawberry Herb planters on my website. I handpaint the pots & label each pocket with the herb name & herb.
http://www.picturetrail.com/thetreasuredrose
those of you in the Boston area, Allendale farm has these planters super cheap, with the mossy patina.
Herbs are really useful in getting nutrients naturally, some of them have medicinal properties too..,.