In honor of National Herb Week (first week of May) we’re starting to get our herb garden into shape for this year. A quick tour of the raised bed revealed a nice surprise: some of last years perennial herbs have greened up already and are looking pretty edible.
The first ones I noticed were the chives. As Stephen King says in the story “A Good Marriage” in his book Full Dark, No Stars, they are “upright and sniffin’ the air”. 🙂 Makes you want to cook something, doesn’t it?
The lemon thyme is just as beautiful, but currently is pretty flush with the ground so is not as readily visible. One of the prettiest plants in there right now is the lamb’s ears. Just one is up right now…so my husband asked me if it could hear me okay since it had only one ear…ha ha.
There were a few varieties of strawberries tucked in there last year, and I can see they are starting to send out some shoots; more shoots means more strawberries for me. Yay!
I’ve already got my annual rosemary plant waiting to go into the garden, but it’s not looking too healthy (as of this writing) so I’m hoping she hangs in there for a few more weeks on the kitchen counter.
Any of you have herb gardens? What are you growing this year?
Addendum: Rosemary is dead. Oh well. Off to buy a new one!
Karen Creamer Author, Coach, Speaker 
Are you kidding me? You put the rosemary out already? The near freezing temps last night didn’t kill it?
I plated cilantro, parsley and basil on Friday…my rosemary has been in for a couple of weeks and the oregano, thyme, and chives are lookin’ good!!! Happy planting!