An Herb Spiral – Bricks Enclose and Warm- Space Increases Three-fold

This is an interesting video on how to make a spiral garden. The mans name is Dean Chichelli and he really seems to know what he is talking about. There are many ways to grow an herb garden depending on the size of your yard or house.

Herbs need very little nutrients when grown this way and the key is to not over water them. The spiral garden is in and of itself it’s own little ecosystem.

By using a spiral garden, you take a 6 by 6 ft square space, when utilizing the vertical aspect of the spirals potential, you gain about 22ft of plant-able space. This means that you don’t trample over other plants during the time of planting, watering, or harvest.

When constructing the spiral garden keep in mind the location of the sun and try and coordinate the best place and direction to have the tail of the spiral face. Usually it is best to have the tail of the spiral be a shady spot.

Equally important, choose the right plants for each micro climate, as the sun moves its way through out the day, the sun hits different areas of the spiral garden. The center of the spiral garden is the highest elevation point on the spiral and receives the most sun, place a full sun plant there.

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Making a garden like this you will use about 200-300 bricks. Look on Craigslist so you can barter or pay cheaply for them. Bricks are used because of their thermal properties. They will hold the heat in needed for the night and keep the ground cool in the day.

Straw is the next thing you will need, make sure to buy wheat or oat straw and never ever get hay as it will do nothing but grow weeds in your garden. Straw retains water, reflects light, keeps weeds out, creates a great aerated medium for roots to grow around taking moisture as needed.

Straw is a great insulator and as it decomposes into compost it releases beneficial gases and heat to the surrounding plants in the spiral garden.

The third material is soil. Good organic potting soil will work well.

The fourth ingredient to the spiral garden is mulch. Use a medium to large size wood mulch ground cover to surround the spiral for great weed control and aesthetics.

And finally cardboard. This will be the first piece you begin with.

Directions for setting up your spiral garden.

Pick a good and sunny place. Clear it off till it is 6 x 6 and then toss down some old vegetables and fruit peals. These will decompose and feed the roots of your plants while killing off the weeds.

Lay the cardboard on top of the area, make sure it is few feet larger than the spiral will be.

Cover cardboard with brick spiral then cover the cardboard that surrounds the spiral with a ground cover mulch. Start in the center and work outwards, using straw to even and stabilize brick layers.

Moisten the cardboard with water before placing the straw

Drop loose handfuls of straw into the spiral, do not pack down and then spray with water. Do this in layers. Fill to the top of the bricks and water.

Make places in the hay, twice the size of the plants root you are going to be putting into it.

1. Make the holes for the plants about one foot apart.
2. Place 1-2 large handfuls of dirt into each hole
3. Place the root ball and plant into the hole
4. Place one more handful of dirt around the plant
5. Cover the plant base with straw
6. Water all the plants
7. Place mulch chips around the spiral perimeter

For some great pictures step by step on how to make a spiral garden, check out this site.

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