Herbs: Starting herb garden, 0 by Darleen

Darleen wrote:
Last year we had stones layed under our pergola. Suddenly the space right of the path looked like a great spot for culinary herbs! (house and kitchen are to the right)

I want to try my hand at roses, too. The thought of combing roses with herbs didn't seem unpleasant. So all fall I worked on that soil. I hauled away rocks, wild grape vine roots, trash burried in the soil, nails from remodeling. You name it! I added compost, peat, pebbles, gypsum, lime, and lately I've started trying plastic blankets to keep off the monsoons. I think it's almost ready (if the rain would EVER STOP). I'm planning to blend culinary herbs with the roses and toss in a couple clematis vines for fun. The area is about 16' deep along the picket fence and 12' wide along the house minus an area where the top of the farm cistern sits (might be a great location for an old hand operated cast iron working water pump if anybody has one they'd give me. (hint hint)

I'm getting about 10 roses next month from heirloom roses and have ordered cretan oregano, arp rosemary, manchurian baby's breath, giant allium, hops and rue. I've started poppies from seed (selected from the poppy seed coop here at Daves) and have another rosemany started from a cutting taken in my master gardener class. I'm planning to sow some annual herbs after I lay down flagstones (like those under the new pergola) to create a pathway toward the wall of the house and a window.

I'll try to get a picture tonight after I get home that shows the naked bed. For now, this is all I could find on my office PC to share. Rats!

This area gets sun starting about 10 am to sunset.

This message was edited Apr 6, 2005 3:37 PM