Tell me about your herb garden

Goats Galore · #21 06/22/14, 10:42 AM

These Herb Trough pics were taken this AM. Unfortunately, all of the plants/vines hanging over the sides were cut yesterday and put in the chicken layer boxes. The chickens love herbs.

terri9630 · #22 06/22/14, 12:19 PM

Those tanks are hard to come by around here. Ranchers like to use them for hay and people like to use them for all kinds of things. Gardening, brooding chicks and such.

FarmChix · #23 06/22/14, 05:20 PM

Those are really cool, GG! It would be an awesome way to keep some of those mints contained. I think I might steal that idea once we get moved. I have all of our old llama troughs.....

Yellowmug · #24 06/23/14, 07:15 AM

I plant herbs here, there, and everywhere. Dill, basil, parsley are sprinkled in the garden with flowers and vegetables, along with pots of mint. I have some pollinator focused flower beds and perennial herbs including sage, thyme, oregano, chives, and lovage. Catmint is in the front flower garden, it was planted there when I moved here, at some point I need to divide it. I have lemon balm in a patch in the orchard, it can take over like mint but mowing around it keeps it contained.

The person who lived here before me planted lovely flowers in the front yard and...mint. I love mint but it is such a pain in this garden! Most of my gardening time is spent with vegetables not flowers so I tend to just yank mint here and there, because a couple marathon sessions of weeding it a few years ago did nothing.

I'm in zone 6 and I have planted rosemary but it doesn't hold up too well. Oddly, I have one vigorous rosemary plant and it was just an extra that I planted on the west side of my 5 year olds play house (he has a little garden around his house--chives, alpine strawberries, some flowers and this one darn hardy rosemary BUSH).

badlander · #25 06/23/14, 07:45 AM

I have rosemary, thyme, cilantro, chives, hot and spicy oregano, chamomile, sage and fennel planted in a bed. I also have basil in pots along with spearmint and candy cane peppermint. I had a cinnamon basil plant that I was looking forward to sampling this summer but a late unexpected frost did it in.

I do have some cat mint and spearmint planted in the ground but only where I don't mind it spreading. I love the idea using leaky stock tanks for planters. We have a big pvc type tank that the previous owner had drilled holes in for hoses that would work great for that project. It would probably hold my whole garden.

I recently discovered that some insect was eating my candy cane peppermint at an alarming rate. I dusted it last night with Seven/5 and am waiting to see if that cures the problem.

michael ark · #26 06/25/14, 07:30 PM

Planter build of free fence and free pallet.Lined the bottom & sides with feed sacks. Went cheap and used old wood(pine) to fill 3/4 the way topped with humus and manure.It has sweet basil,purple basil, italian basil,fennel,oregano,peppermint,rosemary &chives.In this picture this was their planting or before picture.I like to do a before after when i can.