Fresh herbs elevate every home-cooked meal. Keep a collection of your favorite herbs handy in a 4 x 4 bed. Plant this herb garden plan in spring and enjoy through summer and fall. You'll be surprised with how much you'll harvest from a small, but well-tended space. Designed for easy maintenance, a 4 x 4-foot bed lets you reach the center from any side.
This planting plan should give you plenty of herbs for salads, cooking, and beverages. For excellent results, use top-quality soil and plant food to provide the best growing environment, plus Bonnie Plants® herbs to give your Handy Herb Garden a strong start. (You'll get to harvest time so much faster than with seeds!) Fill your bed with premium quality raised bed soil, such as Miracle-Gro® Performance Organics® Raised Bed Mix, which is just the right weight and texture for raised bed growing. If you want to expand your garden, place two 4 x 4 beds symmetrically on either side of a 3- to 4-foot path, wide enough for you and your tools. Try the Easy Summer Garden or the Fresh and Early Salad Garden for the second bed. Feed plants with Miracle-Gro® Performance Organics® Raised Bed Plant Nutrition Granules to ensure they get all the nutrition they need.
Planting the 4 x 4 Bed
Take inspiration from these planting options. The plan allows for some interpretation depending on your taste. These plants are pictured small to make the illustration simpler, but your bed will be spilling over as the plants grow! Following spacing on the plant labels, adding a few more plants than we have pictured if the spacing allows.
Area 1: Upright Herbs
Plant the following three rows
- 1 rosemary and 3 chives
- 4 parsley (Italian or curled)
- 2 Sweet basil
Area 2: Creeping Herbs
- 2 Sweet mint (in sunken pots)
- 1 oregano (Greek or variegated)
- 1 thyme (German, Lemon, or Lemon variegated)