I have a small herb garden just outside the kitchen door, and those herbs get used a lot! The ones in the big herb garden near the barn, not so much. Well, last year I nearly killed the kitchen garden herbs by cutting too often. This year they are all in pots--even the ones in the big herb garden. I can easily rotate them and not over-use any one plant. Why didn't I think of doing this before? (Because I'm a slow learner ).
Well as long as you got there eventually Jane. Now you can have fresh herbs whenever you want them and no more worring about cutting them too much.
I like that idea. I am going to have an area devoted to herbs and the like. I think i will pot them and plant the whole pot so I can rotate them if I would like. I do that with many of my flower garden plants mainly because I bring some of them into the greenhouse for the Winter. By doing this with my herbs, if I wanted to bring them in for the Winter I can easily do that.
I have 1 basil plant that I'm not sure if it's okay or not. I had a cilantro but I killed it. I don't know why I always kill my cilantro!
Cilantro doesn't live long to begin with. It usually bolts and goes to seed (this is what is known as coriander in the spice rack). I find it is much easier to toss a handful of seeds out in the flower/herb bed wherever suit you, and let it grow. I toss the seeds out when ever I think of it. Not just in the Spring. Cilantro likes cooler weather, btw.
