Community
herb garden.
Six herb planters full of scents, flavours and stories — freely accessible to anyone passing by.
Come, smell the herbs.
The garden is open every day. The herbs are here for everyone — the curious, the cook, or those who just want a moment to pause.
Lean in and take a sniff, then taste a leaf straight from the planter.
Take a few leaves home for your kitchen.
Take just a few leaves, not whole plants. Always leave the roots in the soil.
Leave some for others — take only as much as you will actually use.
If you see a dry planter, a glass of water will do it good.
The park behind
Tesco.
Prague 6 — Dejvice
14°22′18.2″E
A small space
with great meaning.
We created the herb garden to give Hanspaulka a little place where people can stop, smell the herbs, learn something new, and maybe take a few leaves home.
It's not only about growing plants. We want to support neighbourhood life, show that even a small public space can have meaning, and bring people closer to herbs they know from the kitchen but rarely see growing in front of them.
The garden is a pilot step. We want to find out whether it makes sense to develop similar community and green activities in Hanspaulka.
The project aims to strengthen local connections, bring different generations together, and test interest in a larger community garden.
We want to show how various herbs look, how they grow, and how they can be incorporated into everyday cooking.
Want to
help?
Write to us if you'd like to help with the garden
Send us a recipe using a herb from our garden
Let us know what you'd like to see in the garden next
How we
built it.
We built the planters ourselves from spruce wood. The surface was then charred and painted — giving it a natural aesthetic finish and making it more resistant to moisture.
As the base we used a standard mix from the Jena compost facility. This organic, nutrient-rich soil gives the herbs good growing conditions without artificial fertilisers.
Instead of a plastic mulch film we chose a wool blanket — plastic from film gradually leaches into the soil over time. Wool retains moisture, suppresses weeds, and is biodegradable.
The beds contain 8 ceramic Olla pots (5 l each), buried directly in the soil. Water seeps slowly through the porous walls directly to the roots — efficiently and exactly where needed.
The bottom third of each planter is filled with leaves, grass and wood chips from Hanspaulka neighbours. The organic material slowly composts, releases nutrients, and helps retain moisture.
The inside walls of the planters are lined around the whole perimeter with a drainage membrane. It separates the soil from the wood, protects the planter from moisture, and extends its lifespan.
A family nursery with a wide selection of herb seedlings grown with care and expertise.
A trusted supplier of quality herbs, with whom we work repeatedly and gladly.
The Czech University of Life Sciences provides us with rarer and less common herb varieties from their research collections.
This project is being implemented by Czech Horizons z. s. with support from the European Solidarity Corps.
This project is supported by the European Solidarity Corps programme of the European Union. The views expressed are solely those of the authors and the European Union bears no responsibility for them.