Planting the herbs

We planted the mints in tubs to keep them under control. I'm hoping they'll fill out nicely and share space. Let's see. Here's the garden mint, the black peppermint and the Moroccan mint. We placed the tubs at the end of each path.

All the other herbs went into the herb bed. Some of them are going to be quite big, so I left a lot of room for them. It's quite a sad little herb bed just now, though we did get some golden feverfew (Tanacetum parthenium 'Aureum') and apple mint (Mentha suaveolens) today. Notice that the apple mint is the same species as the pineapple mint we've already planted, but it's not variegated. It's leaves are incredibly hairy.

They are from Rouken Glen, where we went to get a max/min thermometer after the DIY shop had only digital ones that required batteries. There's no point in recording temperatures with a thermometer that can run out of batteries overnight when it's the coldest night of the year, for example. The one we got is the standard mechanical/chemical one that won't run out of batteries.

You can see the bit of the herb bed that is planted so far. The curly wood sage is in the foreground, with the common sorrel and various chives to the back left. The purple sage is to the right, towards the quince's stake. You can see a mint planter at the back.

The view from above shows the bare ground. I'm going to fill that with either lots of annual herbs (basil, etc.) or a flower seed mix I've been given.