Thyme to sow

With a little planning you can grow as many herbs as you like. This is an excellent excerpt from an article in the The Independent explaining the best way forwards.

Furnishing a herb garden is very much like furnishing a house. You need the big, permanent pieces of furniture, but you also need a few more evanescent things to add variety. Jekka McVicar, Queen of the Herbs, has put together an excellent Herb Starter Kit for gardeners who need guidance. She includes shrubby stalwarts such as ‘Hidcote’ lavender, rosemary, purple sage and the pretty little variegated thyme ‘Silver Posie’ among perennials such as chives, bronze fennel, pale green apple mint, wild strawberry and oregano. Planted together with parsley (a biennial) that would make a good-looking patch.

Read the full article here

Essential tasks for June

This is a rewarding month in the garden as you start to see the fruits of your labours. Herbaceous borders come alive with colour and the vegetable patch is full of fresh pickings. Keep your garden looking its best with the BBC’s guide to this month’s jobs.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/gardening/today_in_your_garden/jobs_june.shtml