So on the may long weekend we also re-dug the herb garden and added new soil. It's in a particularly gravelly spot, with lots of shards of broken pottery in the soil. The previous owners for some reason thought broken pottery would keep weeds down or something like that. (?!?)
We dug out any of the perennials and replanted them in the new soil, rearranging a bit because some of them weren't in ideal spots. Then we picked out the annual herbs and added them to the garden.
Herbs for 2007:
Flat-leaf parsley - biennial from last year, and seeding itself.
lemon thyme - perennial, but regular thyme didn't come back
Sage -perennial
garlic chives - perennial
chives - perennial
French tarragon - perennial
Rosemary - annual
Black opal basil - annual
Thai basil - annual
Dill - annual
Fennel - annual (first time I'm trying this)
Caraway - biennial (also first time on this)
Lemon balm - perennial
Spearmint - perennial (added new this year)
Greek oregano - perennial (also added new this year)
Vietnamese coriander - annual (I've never seen this before and was intrigued)
Coriander - annual seeding itself like crazy in our next door neighbour's yard, he's given us some. This is put in the vegetable garden instead of the herb garden since it does so well beside the tomatoes.
Genovese Basil - annual. Also in the vegetable garden between tomatoes.
While that sounds like a lot, it actually doesn't take up too much room. I'm looking forward to experimenting with the caraway, which looks a lot like dill, but gets much taller. I've never even seen fresh caraway in the grocery store. I expect it can be used much like fennel or dill. The Vietnamese coriander is the type that goes into the salad rolls, which are my favourite at Vietnamese restaurants. I'll have to learn how to make them.
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