Growing Herbal Vines in an Edible Garden
Every garden should be as diverse as you can manage in the space you have, and an herbal vine is a great way to add a useful plant in a small space. Vines provide a vertical element to what otherwise might be a rather flat garden in need of an interesting growing element. Herbal vines can be trained to grow up and over trellis structures, around poles, up fences, in containers, and around gates. Most herbs produce not only leaves that can be used as fragrance or in your cooking, but a beautiful flourish of flowers that really adds interest to any garden space.
Gardening with herbal vines is smart because they combine well with every type of landscape, try some of these to add their beauty and fragrance to your garden.
Provide For Their Growing Needs
Wherever you want to add an herbal vine in your garden, you need to make sure that it is going to be able to survive and thrive in the space provided. Herbs love thin, sandy soil that is well drained and not overfed with nutrients. If you have a hard to grow spot of the garden, your vine might just like it, but it is important that full to partial sun is available, because most vine plants need an abundance of the sun to survive.
Herbal Vines Need Space
Herbal vines are like any other vine plant and need space to grow because they will get long and leggy. Be ready to provide your vine with clear ground garden space for it to spread out over or some vertical element to grow up. With that space comes the need for a structure of some sort that it can attach itself to and build stability as it grows. A trellis, fence or other structure nearby is ideal, so make sure that you plant your vine near something from the start.
Flowering and Fragrant Herbal Vines
There are many different types of herbal vines, and flowering herbal vines are among some of the most beautiful ones out there that also happen to be very fragrant. Roses are herbs, though most people just look at them as flowering plants, and they come in vine form too. Add rose vines to any corner of the garden that needs a beautiful flush of blooms. Jasmine is another flowering herbal vine, considered an exotic it has bold white flowers along a woody vine with deep green leaves. Add it to a container in colder climates so that you can move it indoors during the winter.
Do you want to learn more about creating an edible garden? Here are a few books that can help you get started:
