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Do you have an herb garden?
I have been thinking about this lately....I want to grow my own herbs but I am terrible at keeping plants alive. Are they relatively easy...like is there a kit I can buy or something? I should keep inside near a window, right? Or could you do it outside on a deck?
What do you grow?
I would want things I use the most in cooking like cilantro, basil, mint, and parsley. Are these do-able? I need tips.
Re: Do you have an herb garden?
I didn't have one this year, but I did last summer. I had a long planter's box that I kept on the front porch. Unfortunately we never enter the house through the front door so I forgot to water it all the time! I had Basil, Rosemary, Oregano & Parsley. I bought the plants and they did well, despite my neglect.
My parents had mint at one time and beware it multiples!
We started this year with basil, oregano, rosemary, and cilantro. We started them all out inside and then moved them outside.
The basil is insane - it just took off and now we can't use it fast enough. The oregano started slower but now its insane too. The rosemary is doing pretty well too. The cilantro was basially DOA lol.
I'm awful with plants but H is pretty good with them, but even so, with these we just water them regularly and they are doing really well. we just bought seeds at the store with little pots and some dirt and that was it.
I planted basil, parsley, mint, and lavender this year. Mint does mulitply quiet quickly, but planting it in a planter helps keep it under control. Sage also gets huge. My Sage plant (which was here when we moved in) is easily 3ftx3ft. It's absolutely ginormous. Rosemary require little care, and seems to thrive even when not watered reguarly (once established).
You can plant pretty much any herb in a pot on your counter. Remember that they need lots and lots of sun, and a decent amount of water until established. They are all fairly resilient though, and will bounce back if you forget for a day or two. I personally think herbs are way easier to grow than most flowers.
Yup. I scaled back this year because last year was out of control.
2 basil plants, chives, mint in a container outside, and cilantro. FYI, cilantro will not stay alive outside in our area. It's too hot and humid for the plant to survive. Next year I'm going to try potting it and keeping it inside, near a window like a house plant. Everything else is doing well. It's so convenient when it's time to cook!
I don't have one this year but next year if we're still in the same place I will try and grow some herbs and some veggies. I wasn't sure how the soil was and didn't have time to put in to it so I threw some random seeds down and now I have these HUGE flower bushes with tiny little yellow flowers on them. They're cute...but I have no clue how they got so big. Maybe just throwing a whole pack down in the soil wasn't such a good idea!
Anyway, I'll try to grow basil (since we use a lot of it), rosemary, and probably cilantro...I'm not sure we'd really use anything else.
I generally have a black thumb, but I am actively trying to keep some herbs this year.
I buy the plants, not the seeds, because I'm not that ambitious.
I have mint and oregano in a large planter at the bottom of my front steps. There was dill in it, but three in the planter was just too much, so I eventually pulled the dill out. I use the mint a lot, but not the oregano so much.
I also have two basil plants inside that I've currently picked clean.
I attempted to keep cilantro and sage as well, but they were outside when it was raining and got flooded and basically just died.
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Yup. I have a shelf that runs across the top third of my kitchen window with cilantro, parsley, chives and catnip in containers. All of those are doing really well though it's time to replant the parsley and cilantro--they die if you don't use them fast enough.
Outside I have a few basil plants, oregano, more cilantro, more parsley, and dill. I have tried rosemary from seed and can never get it to sprout.
Most are easy to grow but right now the only thing that's dealing really well with the hot weather is oregano. The basil and dill are bolting (going to flower and seed) and the parsley and cilantro are starting to brown.
I'm hoping to do lavender and mint next year--and ditto about growing mint in containers to control it's growth. Same with catnip which is in the mint family.
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You see all these warnings about how mint grows like crazy? I managed to kill a pot of mint my MIL gave me.
I also killed a rosemary bush.
I have mad black thumb skillz.
That said...the one year I did manage to grow herbs, basil and oregano were the easiest. Cilantro bolted and then died in the course of about a week, which is a shame because it's my favorite. I grew all of these in a window box planter that I hung on my deck railing at our old place. Easy peasy.
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I killed mint last year... I put it in a pot like I was told and then I forgot to water it.
This year, my catnip and lavender came back full force. The only thing I replanted was basil, which we use a lot and I make pesto out of whatever we don't use. I don't do well with plants indoors, or in pots if they are outdoors.
We started mint last year and did it in a large pot to prevent it from taking over the lawn. Considering I never water it, it did very well and came back this year in the same pot.
This year I tried to branch out to cilantro - and as a lot of the others have said - it was a disaster. It started out really well, grew super fast, and then immediately died. So, I never got to harvest it. I might try again next year, keeping it inside. I'm not great about gardening because I forget to water it until it is usually too late.
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Well that sounds like my kind of herb garden! Thanks for the tips everyone : )