The Herb Garden - month by month

[Snoop Puss]

I was rummaging for something else on the bookshelf and came across the book. Will get it out today. Am keen to grow chives and garlic chives this year. On your list, I'll go with chervil. Bit early for basil yet for us. Thyme and rosemary grow wild. And parsley and sage I'll cheat and buy plants.

[veggiechicken]

2020 - Herbs

Time for some herbs to go with those spices!

January & February herbs which can be sown now

January

Sow:-
Chives
Rosemary
Winter savory

Take cuttings in spring
Bay & Rosemary & Winter savory -

Buy or take soft stem cuttings in summer - French tarragon

February

Sow (indoors or GH)
Basil
Canary balm - Cedronella canariensis
Cowslip
Eucalyptus
Evening primrose
French marigold
Parsley
Perilla
Safflower
Sage
Thyme
Wild strawberry
Woad

Sow outdoors or in pots
Chervil
German chamomile

Take cuttings
Chicory
Sea holly

Divide
Chives
Costmary
Ginger
Sorrel

[bramble]

Just to say, my Rosemary has been in blossom for the last few weeks.
Its living outdoors in a large container on the back steps.

[Right Shed Fred]

I don't see saffron mentioned here yet - popped some new bulbs in two weeks ago and am already harvesting from those flowers not destroyed by the manic rain.

[Snoop Puss]

Good timing. Just yesterday I was trying to find the book I bought. Looks like I don't need it - just this thread!

[veggiechicken]

What to do in March

Sow in March:-

Agrimony
Aniseed
Anise hyssop
Artemisia

Bergamot
Bistort
Borage

Canary balm
Caraway
Chives
Coreopsis
Coriander
Cumin

Dyer's greenweed

Echinacea
Elecampane
Evening primrose

Fenugreek
Feverfew
Flax

Good King Henry

Heartsease
Herb bennet
Hyssop

Lady's mantle
Lemon verbena

Marjoram
Mullein
Mustard

Nasturtium

Orach

Pinks
Poppy
Pot marigold

Salad burnet
Scented pelargonium
Sea holly
Smallage
Sorrel
Spruce
Strawberry
Summer savory
Sunflower
Sweet woodruff

Tansy
Teasel
Traveller's joy

Vervain

Weld
Winter savory

Yarrow

Phew!! This is the busiest month for seed sowing - don't be alarmed. It becomes easier.

Better find some more seeds!!

[bramble]

Sowed a load of herbs about two weeks ago.
So far chives, fennel, thyme, flat leaf parsley, cumin and mustard have germinated.

[veggiechicken]

I've started!!
Rummaged through my old seeds and decided on this lot as they're all past their sow-by dates.

Sown 11 pots (all different) - now in prop.

Thyme - Common/Orange scented/Broad leaf
Basil - Thai/Red Rubin/Lemon/Mammoth
Chervil - Curled
Parsley - Paravert/Moss curled

Also have some mint cuttings rooting in water.

[Snoop Puss]

^In my case, don't sow till May, nip off the tops when about 15 cm tall so the plants bush out, and keep pinching off the flowering tips. And plant out far more than you think you'll need.

Actually, that looks like a good plan for coriander, come to think of it. I never do well with that.

I was a bit pants last year but there is a border in the veg patch I want to revamp and make a dedicated herb patch. Bought some winter savory seeds as my plants were lost last year as well So I will be keeping an eye on this thread

For those of you feeling herby what is the knack for basil? I don't recall ever successfully growing the stuff.

[Snoop Puss]

I was thinking of fishing the book out to have a look just the other day. I've bought some savory seeds. Made a mistake, got the pungent one, but never mind. Apparently it's good for deterring pests. Might try some mixed with marigolds in among the brassicas. Double confusion!

Bit too early for sowing here for me just yet. Give it a few more weeks before I start.

[veggiechicken]

Herb Garden - month by month 2019

Bumping this again as I didn't do very well last year.

These are January & February herbs which can be sown now #


January

Plan your herb bed and order seeds



February

Sow (indoors or GH)
Basil
Canary balm - Cedronella canariensis
Cowslip
Eucalyptus
Evening primrose
French marigold
Parsley
Perilla
Safflower
Sage
Thyme
Wild strawberry
Woad

Sow outdoors or in pots
Chervil
German chamomile

Take cuttings
Chicory
Sea holly

Divide
Chives
Costmary
Ginger
Sorrel

[bramble]

Burnie, I have chamomile growing in my garden and I never cut it back.
It looks dead in winter but always comes back.

[burnie]

I planted some 'erbs in between the crazy paving near my greenhouse, the Chamomile looks well flattened by the winter, do I cut it back at all?

[Small pumpkin]

What's your soil like up there SP? lavender really likes limey free draining dry soil best.

It's more rock than soil! So reasonably well draining. It's raised beach and very acidic. It's not doing that well in pots of MPC to be honest. They need repotting but still !