Ace Info About How To Build A Herb Spiral

How to make a herb spiral.

How to build a herb spiral. 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. Have someone hold or bang the stake into the central point of the ground where you want to position. In our spiral, we used large rocks to build the bottom of the structure, and then a ‘walls’ of about 3 medium rocks high to create the second and third level of the spiral.

The first step is to measure accurately. Build up a mound using biomass (branches and twigs, leaves, straw, bracken etc.) as you would to create a hugelkultur (‘mound culture’) vegetable bed. Keep adding soil as you go, to give the spiral more stability.

Take a long stake and stick it in the ground where you want the middle of your herb spiral to be. 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. How to build a herb spiral step 1:

Decide where on the ground you’ll make a herb spiral. Draw the circle on the ground.