In growing and brewing your own herbs you can be an expert tea gardener yourself! You also can grow and produce herbs in containers both outside and indoors.
If you are more ambitious and adventurous and want to be conventional, you can plan the kind and type of formal herb garden which originated in the Middle Ages.
It is best to keep and maintain those herbs that require and need different amounts of water (such as the mints and thyme) at separate ends of the herb bed.
In growing and brewing your own herbs choose wide arrays of herb collection.
Some herbs do not require and necessitate as much sun as the others and can be planted even near taller kinds that will filter direct sunlight before it reaches and touches them, or, you can locate and place the bed where one section will receive and will have fewer hours of sunlight every day than the rest of the herb bed.
Aggressive or persistent type of herbs such as lemon balm, the mints, and sweet woodruff, should not be positioned or placed where they can crowd out the other herbs on the bed.
Another tip for growing and brewing your own herb.
If you have it in mind to sow and propagate seeds of slow germinating perennial herbs in the fall followed by seeds of annual herbs in the season of spring, plan proper spacing for the whole garden in the fall and carefully recultivate the herb bed in the spring so you don't disturb nor upset the germinating perennials.
In growing and brewing your own herb, you don't need special utensils to make herbal products.
Culinary and fragrant herbs can be used to make teas, jellies, herbed butters and breads, and preparations such as potpourris and sachets.
Herbs such as the santolinas and artemisias are most useful and ideal as a landscape feature; others are grown mostly for their exotic and sole appeal and interesting and fascinating histories.