Herbs...

[scottyman]

I'm quite impressed that my rosemary, mint and chives have been resurrected - but my coriander has bitten the big biscuit in the sky -
just before it died it went yellow, which I think means it got too much sunlight... but I always thought it needed nice sunshine? But bizarrely my mint was quite cheerful in the sun (but took a big reduction in size over winter)

What's going on? Does anyone have any tips?

[Blub2k]

Dunno I am too new with the herb garden thing to troubleshoot another, gimme another few years with mine and I should know. I dont think that coriander is perennial though so that could be the problem, I think it is maybe a biennial like parsley.

[Clingy]

You'd have a job to kill mint. It'll take you whole garden over given half a chance!

Herbs like Coriander and Basil are far more difficult to grow.

Mmmm I should know all this really as I work for a Garden Seed company . But horticultural knowledge is not a prerequisite for IT

[Blub2k]

Ok so Coriander is an annual, when did you plant it? Did you get a season out of it already? if you did then it should have died, so replant for this year, if you have only planted this year then oooops

( yer lucky to have lost the coriander anyway YUk !!! )

[turkster]

You'd have a job to kill mint. It'll take you whole garden over given half a chance!

Ohh too true. We have a kind of mint lawn around our apple trees at home which spread of its own accord. Lovely smell when you walk on it .

[tiggerai]

I'm not too good at basil... but my mint keeps going... and going.

thank god it's tabbouleh season again! Hooray

[petrefax]

I'm not too good at basil... but my mint keeps going... and going.

i can't grow basil of the life of me....my latest attempt is currently curling up & turning crispy on my kitchen windowsill <sigh> ho hum

have managed rosemary, sage & mint fairly well tho, using the "leave them in the garden & forget they're there" method of cultivation, works a treat for me