seeds or plants?

[l00pylou]

thankyou all i will look into more when i have more money i have spent out this month but was thinking of chives parsley i would love to grow garlic but do you buy seeds or plants and is it easy to grow?
loux

[MrsC]

I grow, parsley (plant up shop bought 29p in Lidl when on offer also chives), thyme from plants and seed also, mint in an old butler's sink (spearmint). I like pineapple mint (not hardy I found, from plant). Garlic chives from seed, oregano, rosemary, lemon balm (had for years from plant. Also dill and fennel from seed, basil from shop bought (kept indoors) 1 plant lasts a lifetime, takes regular cuttings (into water until roots) and then pot up. Also grown basil from seed (no problems). I have a few varieties of thyme as I use herbs all the time when cooking.

[l00pylou]

wow mrsc2b i would love to have a collection like that you have named quite a few for me there thankyou
loux

[BarleySugar]

I grew broad leaf parsley a couple of years ago, and let some plants go to seed. No probs with keeping a supply now, it's self seeded all over the place, and it's just a case of weeding out the unwanted plants, still useful of course in the kitchen, and for potting up to over winter in the greenhouse. The plants that overwintered in the garden are all putting on good new growth already, and I will again let one seed again to keep the supply going. I believe broad leaf parsley are hardier than curly though.

[jeannine]

It might be a bit late to plant garlic cloves now, but you could grow garlic chives from seed quite easily, and just snip a few of the leaves into your cooking... delicious!

[l00pylou]

thankyou i will go and look for garlic chives now..lol
loux

[mrs dog]

If you plant some different chives they will be there all year every year so very good value for money. I have basil in the house year round. Plant in your pot cover with cling film put on a radiater and up they come. Oregano and thyme are there all year as is rosemary. Hope this helps. Good luck, Jan

[Isla]

For the last couple of years I have been struggling with herbs even though every book I read says how easy they are, I even manage to kill mint!

I find it too difficult to grow herbs from seed so a while ago I brought 6 pots of different herbs from a garden center, I had them on the windowsill for a while but they started to go limp and a bit lifeless, as soon as I put them out in my mini greenhouse they thrived and they seem to be doing really well. The rosemary is doing the best as well as the other woody herbs so if you're not used to growing herbs I suggest you try those.

[ClayGarden]

If you can get to a Lidl near you, they are selling herb seeds for only 29p each. I picked up some carrot and basil on way home last night, and reckon i'm going to get some more on way home tonight. I'd go seed all the time, unless its rosemary, i just can not grow that from seed.