I am growing:
Basil, Lime Basil, purple basil, siam queen basil. Parsley envy, Thyme, rosemary, marjoram, Dill, Dwarf munstead lavender, purslane, sorrel, the chervil died so sowing that one again. Hyssop, sage, mint - pennyroyal, spear and pepper.
What are you growing?
Only growing parsley and basil. The trouble is I'm hopeless at cooking so don't see the point in growing herbs that won't get used !! My parsley plant is about 2ft high and i have only used about 5 leaves !!!
We grow basil (one green, one purple), parsley, oregano, mint, and thyme. Oh, and nasturtiums, becasue we like to add the flowers to salads.
We grow quite a lot of lavender, too, if that counts. But it's more to attract the bees than as a crop.
purple sage, bay, chives, thyme, parsley, oregano, nasturtiums, rosemary
I use lavender in place of rosemary in cooking sometimes. Anything that uses aromatic Mediterranean style herbs like thyme or rosemary - part substitute lavender. And hyssop! You hardly ever see it mentioned in recipes but it's a great Mediterranean style herb and it's supposed to be good for respiratory conditions.
You don't need to be able to cook to use parsley or any of the soft herbs - just chop them up coarsely and add them to stuff!
Am I the only person who prefers chervil to parsley? I always use chervil during the summer and use parsley during the winter when the chervil is finished.
I have been self-sufficient in herbs for about 5 years now. I used to get so annoyed at the supermarkets because they hardly ever had the herbs you needed and they were so expensive. But once I learned to grow my own there's been no going back. Parsley, coriander, chervil, mint (which grows wild in my garden), oregano, basil, save, dill - in fact I have the opposite problem now that I have so many herbs I don't know what to do with them.
I'm starting again from scratch. So far all I've got is basil, parsley, corianders (one variety for leaf and one for seed, though I've yet to discover the difference), mint, tarragon (both), lemon balm, a spicy oregano, lovage, sage and thyme. I've taken cuttings from an old lemon verbena, one of my favourites, but which are a bit slow off the mark, and ditto winter savory. I have nasturtium dotted about, but mainly as a sacrificial crop among the brassicas.
Geoff.
Rosemary, thyme, winter savory, oregano, golden oregano, sage, purple sage, pineapple mint, mint, coriander, curry plant, lovage, parsley, dill, lemon verbena, coriander, angelica, nasturtiums, chives, tarragon, basil, lavender and chamomile and bay :)
I love me herb garden I do ;)
not much yet, but have some inhertited mint, rosemary and bronze fennel in the garden.
used to have a loverly big bay bush in a pot but someone nicked it :o >:(
my first thought was pesky kids but as I could barely lift the pot myself it must have been grown ups who knew exactly what they were stealing... grrr.
I have parsley on the kitchen window sill thats doing lovely and chives in the garden older ones that i have inherited that i let go to flower as i didn't know what they we're at first and have some young ones that i grew from seed that had an attack of the green fly got rid of them and it was growing happily untill the slugs got to them this week but are starting to rear there heads again with all this rain.
LJ
Not enough! Basil, parsley, sorrel, thyme, rosemary, sage, mint, chives, bronze fennel, corriander.
Have dill still to sow.
In the garden we have a large bay tree, rosemary, sage, thyme, lavender for the bees. On the lottie we have rosemary, sage, mint (3 types), parsley flat and curly, dill, fennel, oregano, golden oregano, chives (we should have more at the house under the roses), lemon balm. I'm not too good with basil, when we get our polytunnel I'll try again.
Im married to a chef who insists on parsley, basil, coriander, rosemary, mint and chives and im sure more will follow i have always kept all sorts of dried herbs and spices in the house and we use loads of other types so im sure the collection will grow
I love herbs.. I bought a selection at strawberry fair and one i cannot remember the name of it... it smell a bit like bubblegum.
Peppermint, because its so easy! It comes back year after year with almost zero care. :)
Rosemary, parsley, coriander, oregano and chervil -although thats mostly all turned purple now and I might have to get rid of it.
Trying to germinate basil from seed, but its taking forever!!! ???
vw
yes that happened with my basil too took ages and is miles behind the others planted at the same time
basil likes heat!
oregano, yes I have oregano in the garden also, altho the leaves are so very hot! I don't think it is very culinary!
If anyone would like some apple mint (my fave for bottling) I've loads of roots to spare - PM me an addy.
Lishka
I've got a bay tree, thyme, parsley, lemon coriander, rocket, oregano, mint and something else that I've forgotten the name of. Oh and 5 chives ...
Have managed to germinate basil, lemon basil, purple basil, fennel and coriander but every time a seedling appears it gets munched :'( :'(
Loads of lavender, rosemary, fennel,dill,bay,corriander,sage,parsley,oregano,hyssop,french tarragon,garlic chives,basil,marjoram,newly donated mint,lemon balm,horseraddish,thyme,catmint,feverfew and borage.
I like making stuff with dried herbs.
Borage, borage, another I forgot!
That doesn't count EJ it is in the weed section..
We grow most of those and salad burnett. if that is a true herb..
Winter Savoury is good and tough, Summer savoury in the herb bed..
;D
i have an old butler sink that i found abandoned at the lottie before i left it, its going to be planted up with 2 types of mint, i reckon spearmint and applemint. I will then set it next to my current patio project once ive finished (i.e when it stops raining!)
At the allotment I inherited 7 rosemary bushes that were all planted in a row, so I moved 4 of them to the entrance of the greenhouse , and the other three to the front boarder of the plot to make a bit of a fragrant barrier. Some are looking a bit sorry for themselves, I thought it was the early drought that had affected them until I found some Rosemary beetles on them! Shame they are so attractive, especially when squashed.... :-\ I put bits in my lottie boots (of the rosemary, not the beetles...) to keep them ...ahem...'fresh' in the shed.
Other herbs I'm growing include my all time favourite Chamomile (you can't beat that appley blackcurranty smell of the foliage) the double flowering variety, and I've also grown some of the non flowering variety from seed which has gone into planting pockets in the brick paths and alongside so they smell nice as you walk near/over them!
There are also several thymes, some I grew from seed, some plants from one of Saddads OH's contribution to the Open Day plant sale, I got a trayfull and planted up a gravelled area near my compost bins. Also have Sage, Lavenders (just got 5 new plug plants free from GW magazine this week, already planted up and more cuttings taken from them!), purple Basil (in a tub with Whippersnapper toms and Drunken Woman lettuce), oregano, several inherited groups of chives split and used as boarder edging, blue and white borage, and successional rows of coriander and flat leaved parsley which I use a lot in cooking.......and then there is the stuff I grow at home...... 8)
Deb i wonder if my mystery herb is camomile... its smells like tuttifruity! very fine leaves
Rosemary, three types of mint, oregano, chives, green and purple basil, parsley and lemon balm.
I think!
Oops, lemon balm is another. My brain is empty these days! :-\
Quote from: OliveOil on June 29, 2007, 09:42:30
Deb i wonder if my mystery herb is camomile... its smells like tuttifruity! very fine leaves
I think it smells gorgeous if it is, a cross between blackcurrant and fresh apples.....yummy!
Have a look in my gallery pics, there is a photo of my planted up herb tubs and buckets......there is some Chamomile growing on the edge of the green bucket on the right.
Or, does it look a bit like this (may not have flowers)?
(http://i93.photobucket.com/albums/l47/dlp133/chamomile201.jpg)
HI
Over the last month this is what i have sown with various levels of sucess
Angelica
Anise Hyssop
Basil - Sweet Green
Basil - Genouses
Basil - Dark Opal
Basil Lime
Borage
Bay (plant not seed)
Chamomile Lawn (For back garden)
Chicory
Chives
Comfrey Seeds ( Symphytum Officinale)
Coriander
Dill
Lavender
Marjoram
Mint
Myrtle
Oregano
Parsley - Big Mountain
Parsley - Darki
Parsley - Hamburg ( 2 rows planted )
Parsley - Plain Leaved
Peppermint
Rosemary
Sage
Sage - Broad Leawool
Thyme - English
Garlic Chives
Common Chervil
I also have fenel :) on the plot.
Cambourne7
Basil, pasley, different mints, lemon balm, chives, oregano, tarragon, marjoram, rosemary, bay, lavender, thyme, chamomile.
Love giving them a stroke as I wander about the garden.
I saw a rue plant last weekend that I'm going to buy just coz it was so pretty - anyone grow or use rue?
Rue.....love the green/grey finely cut leaves, loathe the daisy-type flowers it produces.....and it stinks ::)
Rosemary, tricolour sage, english thyme, lemon thyme, pineapple mint, spearmint, flat-leaf parsley, curly parsley, genovese basil, minette basil, lavender, golden oregano, green & red perilla, chive, bay and lemon balm. :)
applemint, chocolate mint and pineapple sage
all of the above,apart from rue just got chamomile for teas, echinacea from donated seeds, got 1 germinated, I let lots flower to bring in the goodies and the bees ;D
also include marigolds for creams and stuff :)
oh...does echinacea count? Then I have that to.
mine does, I use it for a cold treatment ;D
I've got it too, and marsh marigold ;D
More like what did you grow-until the snails?-chervil gone,winter and summer savory gone,parsley(flat and curled) mauled,tarragon-very upset,basil (several types-sulking after being well messed with.
Coriander-now that has enjoyed all this wet ;D
Dill, fennel, basil, coriander, parsley, summer savoury,rosemary,sage, lavender, bay, chives, garlic chives,mint and a chocolate mint, which tastes just like choc and mint [!!]- it is totally addictive, I have to stop myself stripping the plants and eating the leaves raw.
I don't do too well at growing herbs but i'm trying a container with different herbs, parsley, coriander, dill, marjoram,tyme, rosemary didn't come to anything the others seem fine. Basil i'm doing in a separate pot.
Grow lots of herbs here too, also one that isn't strictly a herb but it's in my herb bed, soapwort - comes in handy for washing your hands!
Curly Parsley, Flat leaf Parsley, Chives, Garlic Chives, 3 types of Mint, Oregano, Marjoram, Fennel, Rosemary, Bay, Chervil, Chamomile, Lavender, struggling Lovage,slug munched Basil, Lemon Thyme, regular Thyme varigated Thyme.
I use my herbs daily, just love em!
Quote from: jennym on June 30, 2007, 10:41:08
Grow lots of herbs here too, also one that isn't strictly a herb but it's in my herb bed, soapwort - comes in handy for washing your hands!
I also read that about ceonothus, never tried it though. Off to look up soapwort now.