More herb garden

Had two additional herb garden areas last year. One had basil, thyme, sage, and some miscellaneous stuff that never grew. This is what it looked like on arrival. Yikes! Decided that it really was too shady for most herbs, but certainly don't want to be looking at this mess all summer.  This is all in the side yard and we sit out there while barbecuing in the summer, so needed to do something about this view.

Cleaned it out - there is still a little sage there in back left side, but it looks puny compared to what's in other garden. I put some shade flower seeds in here. We'll see if anything grows at all. I'll deal more with this one when I get back in a few weeks.   Hopefully, got enough of the weed roots out that it won't look like it did when I arrived in May.

The other little garden (surrounded by bricks) was my first starter herb garden. First year had basil, oregano and parsley. Parsley came up again last year but two years is usually all you get with them. Oregano on the other hand  will take over the world. This garden only needed a little pruning - not so many weeds in this one.  Anyone need some oregano? I seem to be overflowing with it in two gardens! But love the smell.

Spring Has Sprung

Obviously Spring started some time ago. It's almost summer already! When you leave the plantings alone in the spring they grow immensely as I re-discovered this year on my first trip back to Virginia!

The herbs in my garden made out fairly well over the winter. I lost a lavender plant, but everything else I expected to survive seemed to thrive. The chives and sage have grown a lot and have beautiful blue flowers, the rosemary, thyme, oregano, lemon thyme, and parsely are thriving too.  However, the weeds seemed to overtake it all. At left is  is what greeted me on arrival.

After many hours of work, my real herb garden has emerged and been added to with basil, taragon, and once the seeds start growing, more parsely, cilantro, and dill.  I also stuck some green and red pepper plants in there. Nelson had already planted some tomatoes below the herb garden section, and they seem to be thriving too. Already anxiously awaiting good food for the summer!