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    What's In Your Herb Bed?

    My herb garden has been entirely ignored since last August due to poor health. Because the mint had a wild time and was joined by brambles and bindweed which just smothered everything I'm starting again from scratch.

    This is for the perennials only as I tend to grow annual herbs in among the vegetables - so what what do you have and would you like?

    The space is 2.5m X 8m, south facing along the wall of the house so there is some rain shadow. There is an established olive at one end and a new Japanese quince at the other. Soil is clay with added stones/gravel. Temperature range is normally -5 to 35 but we've had -17 to 45.

    So far I have 4 rosemary and 3 broad leaved sage, cuttings from the originals, along the back.

    The list has so far:
    Thyme (various)
    Sage ditto
    Tarragon
    Garlic chives
    Chives
    Oregano
    Marjoram
    Angelica?
    Bronze fennel, although that does better seeded into the weed matting beneath some gravel...

    And then I ran out of ideas!!
    Le Sarramea https://jgsgardening.blogspot.com/
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  • #2
    The only things I have different to you is a hot & spicy oregano and hopefully next year cumin ( I'm assuming it's a perennial. Don't know much about it. I really must do some research )

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    • #3
      I've got herb fennel its perennial the only downfall is that it grows to 5ft.
      Location....East Midlands.

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      • #4
        Not in one bed, but as follows:
        Broadleaved thyme
        Greek oregano
        Golden oregano
        Bay tree, kept clipped
        Sage
        Lemon balm
        Lemon verbena
        Chocolate mint
        Spearmint
        Pineapple mint
        Lettuce leaved Basil (I grow it indoors)
        Chives
        Garlic chives
        Myrtle
        Vietnamese coriander
        Last edited by elleme; 30-09-2014, 12:35 AM. Reason: forgot to add a couple more

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        • #5
          Chocolate mint
          Strawberry mint
          BBQ sage (smokey)
          Tree spinach
          Lemon verbena
          Lime basil
          Black currant sage
          Thyme
          Basil
          Mint
          Sage

          Not in a bed as such, in flower buckets and on the kitchen windowsill


          Sent from my iPhone using Grow Your Own Forum
          Bex

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          • #6
            In a bed -
            Apple mint
            Moroccan Mint,
            Basil Mint
            ?Eau de Cologne mint
            Variegated oregano
            Thyme
            Myrtle
            English Mace
            Pineapple Sage

            Elsewhere :-
            Purple sage
            Blackcurrant sage
            Lemon balm
            Variegated lemon balm
            Various thymes
            Bay
            Balm of Gilead (Cedronella Canariensis)
            Other mints
            Marjoram
            Golden oregano
            Chives
            Garlic chives

            Must be more, but can't remember them

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            • #7
              Lovely lists, thanks peeps. Hoping to finish clearing the bramble, mint and bindweed tomorrow and going off piste and putting some hollyhocks in at the back.
              I'll be visiting my Mum next month so shall take cuttings of various treasures!
              Le Sarramea https://jgsgardening.blogspot.com/

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              • #8
                Can I also suggest a small lemon tree grown not just for the fruit but for the fragrant leafs (for sorbets, tea, fragrant rice etc) and the sheer joy of the heady flowers at the most unexpected times of year. It may of course have to live in a container so you can rescue it from frost. Ditto lemon verbena for the same reasons

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                • #9
                  I have managed to keep my lemon verbena going for a few years outside. I risked it as it wasn't doing so well in a container and then it took off more. That said, I'm in London and it's fairly close to a west-facing house wall. Good point about the lemon tree having dual use.

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                  • #10
                    Lemon Basil
                    Cinnamon Basil (AMAZING STUFF!)
                    But these have to be indoors as it's too cold here - you probably won't have that problem though!
                    You may say I'm a dreamer... But I'm not the only one...


                    I'm an official nutter - an official 'cropper' of a nutter! I am sooooo pleased to be a cropper! Hurrah!

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                    • #11
                      So I have my plant list for perennials - next question plant now (well, mid October) or wait until the spring? If it were shrubs or trees I'd do it now, but with things like tarragon which will vanish I guess it is best to wait. If I wait the bed will get the phacelia treatment for the winter.
                      Finished clearing today and have a bucket full of bindweed roots!
                      Thanks again. Umm, lemon tree - now that it something I'd not thought of before.
                      Le Sarramea https://jgsgardening.blogspot.com/

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                      • #12
                        I went a bit potty with the herb bed last year and grew

                        purple sage, common sage, fennel herb, bay, curled and flat parsley, thyme, orange thyme, lemon thyme, horehound, winter savory, hyssop, lemon verbena, dill, smallage (wild celery / the plant that gives you celery seeds), lemon balm, apple mint, mint, chives, garlic chives, pineapple sage, blackcurrant sage, oregano, pot marjoram, sweet marjoram, red veined sorrel, dill, rosemary

                        this year I am adding summer savory (as it helps tomatoes apparently), chervil, french sorrel, coriander, lemon coriander


                        Only massive failure was dill as it doesnt like being near fennel. That's the excuse I'm going with and I'm sticking to it. Garlic Chives werent very vigorous and I wont bother with again as I dont see the point; chives only taste slightly different and the crow garlic (allium vineale) I am growing has the garlicy onion green shoot thing covered.

                        Red veined sorrel was slow as hell to grow and so sharp tasting that I am not too bothered.

                        Horehound apparently is a good companion for potatoes but it grows slow as hell. Not used for culinary purposes but for stuff like cough medicine

                        Best new thing I grew was Winter savory. It's a perfect herb for the english cook; a great combo of sage/thyme/rosemary and it's a perennial

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                        • #13
                          Did you add rosemary to your list PP, I use sage, thyme, oregano, mint and rosemary a lot in the kitchen. I also like some lavender in my biscuits and scones but its more of a bi-annual for me as I end up pulling it out when it gets leggy.

                          I have a couple of standard bays as they give a bit of height, I'd like to grow a curry tree but, don't have the climate. I've grown a lot of the others mentioned but, find these days I stick to what I'll use rather than growing lots of exotics.
                          I'm only here cos I got on the wrong bus.

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                          • #14
                            That reminds me, I've also grown a curry plant that looks like grey rosemary but it's purely ornamental as I read in one place (maybe the label?) that it might be a bit dangerous to use in food?

                            Anyone used one for cooking?

                            smells like, err.. curry

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                            • #15
                              Its an odd name really, seeing as curry literally means gravy or sauce. So its a gravy plant!!! Not sure about you but, I'm not that keen on being able to cut my gravy.
                              I'm only here cos I got on the wrong bus.

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