[Sca-cooks] Re: easy to grow herbs

[Collette S. Waters]

If you try lavender - Try spanish lavender it lives through the summer a little
better.  Upright varieties of rosemary and thyme seem to do better than creeping
or trailing types.  Garden sage works but plant it in dappled shade/sun treat it
as an early spring/ late fall annual.  It tends to melt in the hot humid
summer.  Basil loves full sun - it can even take the afternoon sun.  Many plants
that are recommended for full sun can't take it in the deep south but do well
with full morning sun.  Container gardening is good but remember they will have
to be watered 2-4 times more than plants in ground.  A stacked or tiered bed is
a neat trick to getting more plants in a smaller area.   Also raised beds (which
are period) work wonders in the south!  Mine are 8 inches high and are used as
water breaks as well as herb beds.  You may have to layer gravel and sand if
water logging is a real problem.  Of course the stacked bed is good for that as
well put the water lovers on the bottom and the ones that like dry feet on top.
A good modern resource to help you plan is Southern Herb Growing by Hills &
Barclay ISBN 0-940672-66-9.
Begga
(who loves to talk gardens)

MtLion wrote:

> Greetings,
>
> I reside in South Texas, about 40 miles in from the Gulf of Mexico.