Growing Chives and Rosemary?

I bought seed for chives and rosemary and I plan on planting them today. I've never grown anything before so I figured herbs would be easier for me. Can anyone give me some basic information on how to go about this? Or any tips?





Do I water them a lot, or let them dry out?

Growing Chives and Rosemary?
Keep the planted seeds moist, in seed pots or a seed tray, and covered with glass etc, to help with this. Now is a good time to sow them.





Rosemary is a fairly tough plant, and can stand drier soil, once established, as it will grow to a mini shrub, with light blue flowers in early spring time.





Chives are fairly easy too - just give them a sunny spot, keep watered, as they are fairly shallow rooted, and they also flower with some beautiful lilac flowers through much of the summer -depending on how often they are cut.





Once your seeds sprout, I'd move them to individual pots, and grow on for a couple of months, before planting into the garden. Both love sunny spots, and longer deeper watering is better than very frequent shallow watering - although when young, ensure that they don't dry out during summer time.





Overall, after sowing your seeds, they don't need to swim in water, but keep them from drying out, as the seeds need to absorb water, in order to swell and send their roots out and downwards - if they dry out at this stage, the roots shrivel up. The Chives could also be sown 3 or 4 seeds to a pot, and left to grow on like this, and planted out as small groups later.





Hope this helps. Good luck! Rob