How to Pick Herbs for Your Herb Cooking Area Garden If you have decided you want to develop your own cooking area herb garden, you need to initially decide on what herbs to grow in it. When you have done that you can start preparing your herb garden strategy and start taking a look at things like herb garden sets or herb seed catalogs. To make things as simple as possible for you I have composed this post to teach you about the "Three things every herb gardener requires to know" before heading out to buy herb plants or seeds. The number of different kinds of herbs do you wish to plant in your kitchen herb garden? Many people, when they are establishing their herb garden, choose about 5 or 6 types of herbs. But a recognized little to medium-size herb garden could have as many as 20 to 30 different kinds of herbs. However, I recommend that you start with just a few, and build up the numbers of herbs as you gain experience. If you are interested in a particular type of herb (gar...