Herbs

Here's a roundup on the herbs that were sown on Monday:

Thyme - English Winter, thymus vulgaris from Kings Seeds

Germinates in soil temperatures of 18-25°, takes 14 to 21 days to germinate and will grow around 30cm high once transplanted outside spaced 15cm apart. It's a perennial but a smaller one than my mighty rosemary! I have no real idea where I might put these at the moment. Conventional wisdom says to have the herbs close at hand, but those spots are already taken (mostly by the aforementioned rosemary, but also by my beetroot and mesclun as those are the primo spots in the garden), and the spot I'd really like to put them currently has garlic in it (the edge of the BBQ garden). The best solution might be to have them in largish pots through till after I get the garlic out and give the ground a rest for a couple of months.

Oregano – origanum vulgare from Kings Seeds

Germinates in soil temperatures of 18-25°, takes 7 to 14 days to germinate and are transplanted outside spaced 15cm apart. This herb is a spreading perennial, but apparently will reach 45cm high so that's a reasonably high ground cover. I don't want to inadvertently plant it where it might later block out any little seedlings, so a row running out from underneath the lemonade tree might be good as it will catch plenty of sun there and won't interfere with anything else.

Sage – salvia officinalis and salvia apiana from Kings Seeds

These two sages germinate in soil temperatures of 18-25° after 7 to 21 days, and are transplanted out at 30cm apart. The common sage is for eating, and will grow to around 50cm high, while the white sage is an aromatic giant at 150cm high! These will be accompanying the oregano by the lemonade tree – I'll be trying to hack back the bouganvellia at that end of the fence as far as possible so the white sage can sit along that, with the common sage in front.