Amie,
What a great idea!!
Do you cook with herbs???
I don't cook with them but I love some for the fragrance.
#1. My first favorite is lemon thyme, such a beautiful clean smell, and a nice pick~me upper smell when you're blue!!!
(you can eat it too, or put it in lemon aid drinks, freeze into ice cubes, soups, where ever a hint of lemon would be used!!)
#2. My next favorite herb would have to be borage,
Beautiful BLUE
flowers, and fuzzy leaves,
(*it will get tall, I have mine in my veggie garden next to my tomatoes, so I let it get tall, you may be able to pinch it a bit to get it to bush out, and it will reseed prolifically for you, the
seed just drops here in the fall time on top of the dirt, winters over under the snow and next
spring it's re~seeded it'self!) You can eat that too, the
flowers taste like a lite cucumber and also can be frozen into icecubes for drinks or cold salad dishes to keep it cold and pretty under the bowl you're serving it on.
#3. I love chives, not only for eating, but the
flowers are so pretty, the bees love them in the
spring too! They'll reseed prolifically too for you! (* I have some giant garlic's too, they are alot of fun and alot purple, neat
seed head in the fall time too) (**and a nodding garlic, where the head twists under and around in a circle like, and that's alot of fun to watch...)
I have alot of the natural or out in the country herbs like mullein, wild mints, evening primrose,
chamomile,catnip, calendula's....
Here's the direct link to Nikkal's post about herbs and their needs and especially the dirt/soil.
HERBS - AN OVERVIEW by NIKKAL My only suggestion would be is that, herbs like it when nothing really splashes back up on them.
So, do up your soil, and maybe get some of those smooth rocks (shiney, polished, we have them that come in bags here in a store called the Dollar Store, maybe aquariums stores might have them, or decorator places, hard to say where you live..
**Or just use some rocks found by a creek bed maybe* lay them on top of the soil, absorbs warmth and keeps the dirt from splashing back on to the
plants' base..
Keep us posted if you get some going, we'd
love
to hear about it and what you did.
Weezie