have an herb garden

but i have no garden. :(

Erm – well nearly. I still need the Parsley.

A also planted some mint, tarragon and chives in there. Now I’m on the lookout for a bay tree to complete the collection.

Thinking about a greenhouse next, but wondering if it is too late to set this up for this year?

...garden with my vegetable garden. I’m so excited about the fresh herbs – for cooking and to keep my apartment smelling delightful!

I planted some chive seeds and I still have some lavender seeds that I need to plant … The sunflower seeds are sprouting, too.

...any ideas about how I can have an indoor herb garden that’s not on the window sill? The cat would totally OD on basil – I can see it already.

Seems to be the only thing I can grow in my kitchen window. :) It’s going absolutely mad! Good thing I love basil but I do wish I could grow some sage and rosemary. I need to start planning where to plant an outdoor garden this spring.

I’m moving my herbs inside. I mostly just have parsley left. I took the parsley out of the large terra cotta pot it was in and put it in a smaller indoor pot that fit on the windowsill. Someone gave me a potted rosemary plant too. The plants are quite small (because I cut them back quite a bit in order to use them) but the root balls look good.

Maybe they will make it inside over the winter.

tony bennet left his heart in san fransico.
i left my herb garden in chicago.

(and i want it back along with my backporch daffodiles, and robin egg baby blue schwinn crusier.)

..and my herbs are still alive, even though I was gone for much of July and August, and couldn’t water them. Luckily it rained enough. I am going to pull out the basil soon as it is quite bitter now, but the parsley is still delicious. Next year, I will definitely do this again, only with more herbs!

That I won’t check this one off, because there is a perfectly decent cache of herbs growing on the porch right now, including a bunch of weird mints (I compulsively buy weird mints ;)), some basil, some small scallions, and those tiny Asian hot peppers. But I think I was thinking of more variety, plus the plants out there really don’t feel like my garden, even if I’m the one who picks the plants. Brian waters them and clips them, after all, even if I comment on when it’s needed. It just feels like cheating to consider it my minigarden when I’m not doing most of the caretaking. ;)