I tried to start my herbs indoors in March, thinking that I'd be able to transplant them outside when the warm weather arrived. I use herbs in great quantities during the summer, and it would be great if I could snip them off as I need them instead of buying them from the store. After two months, however, the ones I started indoors would really only work as micro-greens in a cooking application!
No matter--I went to the store and bought mature plants instead. I now have a great variety of herbs scattered across the garden. I'm using them ornamentally--fitting them into just about every open little space in the garden.
Here are a few of my favorites:
Have you ever seen basil like this? I'm not sure if the variety is "spicy globe" or "pistou" (I found it unlabeled at a garden store), but it has tiny fragrant leaves and grows in a tidy-looking globe shape.
Parsley. I use this almost nightly in my cooking.
A pansy peeking over a variegated sage.
You can never have too much dill.
Creeping thyme--a good ground cover, I hope this guy will fill in the spaces at the edges of my raised beds.
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I rather disagree on the dill sentiment. Other than pickles and some limited other applications has never grown on me although my mother loves it. Picking Dill worms was one of my childhood chores though which could be part of the problem...
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