How/Where do you plant your herbs?--offshoot from other thread.

[sidepasser]

I didn't know chickens didn't like Chamomile, but I can tell you a horse won't eat it either. I let my old mare graze out on the yard and she always avoided where the Chamomile grew. I love Chamomile tea though!

[siletz]

We have 2 raised beds for the herbs. One is for our culinary herbs and the other for the medicinal herbs. They're on the side of the garden closest to the house to make for easier picking.

[CountryWannabe]

Currently all my garden stuff is in either the hoophouse (taken cover off) or the other garden area. Both are surrounded by a 6' chain link fence to keep the goats out. The herbs are closest to the gate, in a raised bed.

When I move I am going to keep herbs in terra cotta pots. They will be on the patio just outside the kitchen door in warm weather, and in winter I can move them into the sun room - which used to be the front porch but is now totally enclosed, has large windows facing N, E and S, and is sunny almost all day.

Mary

[am1too]

Originally Posted by sidepasser

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I hope that helps!

As to where or how I grow herbs:

At the farm I have two herb beds that have been there for ages - one is strictly for "teas" and has mint, chamomile, lemon sage, etc. and the other is for cooking and has sage, rosemary, basil, and so forth in it.

At my house in Huntsville I have pots of herbs, right now I have basil, rosemary, lavender, and just added garlic thanks to Lori Christie - I bought some of her kitchen mix and just planted them in long window boxes. I have never grown herbs in containers so am only doing a few at a time to see which ones grow well.

I can say right now I wish I had known Chamomile spreads like a weed..lol..that stuff grew right out of my bed at the farm and under the fence and is now in the yard!

Thank you. I do have some herbs in pots. I'm just getting started.

[ronbre]

i grow my herbs everywhere, I have them in my beds, in my greenhouse and even some in the woods and by my pond..

[Kazahleenah]

All over. Some are in a bed, some in the garden, some scattered around the farm... lol

[TenBusyBees]

Originally Posted by Raven12

The herb garden looks like crap and I don't care. Lol. I am using recycled and oddball containers.

Yep, same here. If it'll hold dirt, I'll grow something in it.

[freeb]

Mine are in hanging baskets on the back porch

[Mulegirl]

We're just getting started here at the new place (moved in in March), but I'm planning to make the herbs part of the landscaping. There's a spot in the front that already has a whole bunch of roses and a couple of lilies, as well as wild strawberries, so I'm just going to dig up around that, extend the bed a bit, and then start putting in the herbs. They're generally pretty, so why not. The sage is going to have its own spot, though . . . my sage plants always get huge.

[7thswan]

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[Loriann1971]

So many great ideas! Right now I just have a basil plant and some thyme in my window sil, but I am trying to decide if I want to incorporate hebs into my landscape or make a seperate raised bed to grow them in. I did plant some basil and dill in my raised bed garden, near the tomatoes and cucumbers.

[7thswan]

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This bed is about 7 years old. I move things,add and rip stuff out if I don't like it,such as the Hollyhocks-they get holly leaves and just look bad. On the far left Golden Hops grow up a cable, ground roses-Knock-Outs. Also Jerusalem artichokes. Next are Heritage red raspberries and Fall gold raspberries. In the center of a 4 sided arbor-2 kinds of white grapes. On the backside where it grows into the path separating this garden from the fenced main garden I have 5 kinds of Mint,sage,rue,Daisy,Fever few and lemon Balm. Next to that Comfy,the big leaves there are horseradish. Tiny plant upfront is Parsley,you can see the Bee balm,Russian sage.On the far right out of view are Blueberries and some lupin. Some Butterfly plants,ect hidden in there.I do have other beds,no photos yet.

[DebM]

I plant mine in informal clumps by category, in the yard rather than containers because my ultimate goal is for them to spread and take everything over so hubby will not spend so much time mowing ;-) because I just think that's silly. I have a culinary section, tea section, medicinal section, and one where I'm planting perennial foods such as asparagus, Jerusalem artichokes, good king henry and such.... That said, super-spreading one like mints are in sunken containers so they don't run over and visit the neighbors, lol.

[squiggyflop]

i have mine in containers so that i can move them around. i dont like all that many herbs (i am a supertaster) so i only have 2 pots of them

[checkitnice]

I've got creeping thyme and lavender in the front (south facing) bed with geraniums and daisies. Our winter was so mild that the the one thyme plant I put in last June is now 4 feet across, and the lavender came back too with no issues. Chocolate mint is in a pot ... that DF covered up with the rock salt for the driveway. It didn't die either. We rent, so it's going in the ground by the back fence this weekend. If it takes over it takes over. There's no grass there. One thing I have horrible luck with is cilantro. I can't keep it alive. Basil starts are going strong and will be transplanted this weekend too!

(We're in zone 5b.)

[Danaus29]

I've got herbs all over. Comfrey grows beside the potato patch and as a ground cover along part of one of the fenced gardens. Borage and other annual herbs get planted in the veggie garden. Mint grows beside the house. Lavender and wormwood are near the grape vine. Lemon balm is in the garden and beside the deck. Thyme is at the side of the guest house where it's too dry for anything else to grow. Catmint is in the penned rabbit run, it and the blackberries are about all that grow real well there. Even the lemon balm didn't survive in that pen.

I am trying to move my perennial herbs into perennial flower gardens and out of the regular gardens (except the comfrey which looks lovely at the edge of the big garden). I am also trying to put perennial herbs around buildings and along fences so the herbs can keep the weeds and grass down. I'm considering putting some mint around the trunks of some of the trees, in hopes of keeping weeds and grass away from the tree trunks.

The herbs I use for tea I like having close to the house. They are easy to pick late at night or early in the morning.

I have some herbs in pots too. I thought I would lose the pot of mint last year but it made it through and looks better than it did last year.

[Backfourty,MI.]

I have a big oblong planter that I always put my herbs in. It has some perennial herbs that come back each year & I just add the annual one's that I want each year then.

[hotzcatz]

Hmm, it is a problem of where to plant the herbs. At the moment, there are a few of them wandering around the yard. The previous owner of the house planted chives under the jasmine bush and it's still there. Makes mowing around the jasmine bush very aromatic and not in a jasmine type way! There is now some mint trying to spread (which is good) in the lawn in the shade by the bunny hutch. Lavender, sage and savory by the front door along with rosemary, but that's not happy there. I'll probably dig it up and move it to somewhere that it is happier.

This picture is the first raised bed garden which was planted the week after Christmas. It pretty much needs to be taken apart and replanted, but the tomatoes and watermelon are still busy and the lettuce has gone to seed and the coriander is going to seed, too. Having plants that ripen at different times planted together makes it difficult to replant crops.


Just finished putting soil into the second raised bed garden (the one over there on the left) and now I don't know what to plant in it. The first garden had beans, beets, lettuce and tomatoes along with three watermelons. The melons have escaped the garden, ran all over the azalea bushes and are making melons in the middle of the front yard. The neighbors are astounded, but they are younger techie folks who probably figured all vegetables come from boxes delivered to the store. I'm finding with the first garden it is hard to plant the successive crop since the first ones aren't done. Which brings us to the raised bed garden just finished today.

If I plant it as an herb garden, it probably shouldn't be planted with veggies since they'd never be able to be replanted because it would disturb the herbs. Should I try it anyway? Make another raised bed garden just for the herbs? How does one decide how to arrange the herbs?

[vicker]

where do you plant them?


I'm sorry but now I have to tell y'all a little story. Back about 1998 my soon to be wife and I were traveling south from Boston to SC to visit my family. We stopped and camped one night at Bull Run, on the Cheat River in WV near where my father was born. There was another feller camping there that night that I had heard the locals addressing as Crazy Dave. I saw Dave rolling a smoke out of a plastic bag and asked him about it. He informed me, proudly, that he had grown it himself and sang it's praises, saying that it was grown right in that area. Well, I saw that the area was deeply forested, dark and shady. I wondered how he got his garden to grow. I asked him, "Dave, where do you plant it?". Crazy Dave backed up a step or two, looked at me with squinty eyes and postulated, "Wherever the sun shines". That was a good laugh. God Bless Crazy Dave.

[ChristieAcres]

I grow herbs in pots, in with my flowers, in my garden areas, in my garden beds, and right now, I have a ton of them in my enclosed porch (in the hundreds). I am planting a LOT this year, also selling the majority.