Herb Gardening
The herb garden has long been an important part of the English kitchen garden although today with the ready availability of dried herbs and fresh packet herbs from many supermarkets actually growing a herb garden is on the wane.
An easy and attractive solution, particularly for smaller gardens is to grow your herbs in pots. This way they have both a useful culinary purpose but also can have a large visual effect within your garden.
In the past we have grown a small bed, primarily just filled with herds and other culinary plants, but these have now become rather old and woody, or have died off altogether. So this year we are going back to planting our herbs in small terracotta pots and making a display on the patio just outside the back door to the kitchen.
Because we will use most of these herbs in the kitchen, we have restocked with established plants to avoid the need to wait for them to grow from seed. They still need to grow into their pots but this should happen over the course of the next few months