Site Recommendations Herbs do well in the ground, in containers, or in raised beds. Herbs that are not winter hardy perennials need to be brought in doors during the winter. Common Annual Herbs Some herbs like drier conditions and Basil sandy soil — like lavender. Do not over Parsley water your herbs in containers. Herbs in the Garden Cilantro Dill When to plant Why Herbs? After danger of hard frost (May 15th) • They are so versatile Common Perennial Herbs Sage • Companion plants with vegetables Sage Rosemary • Many of them are perennials Rosemary Thyme • Spice up your cooking (literally!) Thyme Lavender • Medicinal Properties Oregano Mint • Attract beneficial bugs & pollinators! Lavender Tarragon • For beauty Mint Lemon Tarragon Balm Annuals & Perennials Lemon Balm Basil Annuals last one season and need to Parsley be replanted every year. Perennials Cilantro will come up every year (as long as they aren’t lost over winter) How to plant Special Considerations You can start herbs by seed, by Certain herbs are perennial but cuttings, and by transplants. they will not over-winter in our The best way to know how to zone. They need to be dug out of the garden and brought inside, if start a certain type of herb is to you don’t have a greenhouse or read your seed packet. It will tell other structure to shield them in you everyone you need to know. the winter. I keep these herbs in pots year-round (I just keep getting bigger and bigger pots), I put them Recommended by seed — outside once it starts warming up, Dill, Parsley, Cilantro, Thyme usually April, and I watch the night-time temperatures. If it is Start by cuttings — going to be below freezing I make Lavender sure to cover them with a sheet or Rosemary row cover. In the winter I bring Thyme them into my cellar or greenhouse Oregano during the winter. Some gardeners/ Mint farmers plant these out in the field, Basil and dig them up (carefully!) in the Marjoram fall to bring indoors. Sage Winter Savory Keep these indoors… These herbs are more hardy perennials Summer Savory Rosemary and you can leave them out… Lemon Balm Lavender Thyme Lemon Verbena Tarragon Sage Recommended by transplant - Lemon Balm Basil Mint pests and disease. Plant borage with Horseradish — Potatoes strawberries, tomatoes or squash to Will keep potato bugs away enhance both the flavor and amount as will horseradish of your fruit or vegetable harvest. Rosemary — Cabbage, Chamomile: In addition to Beans, Carrots, and Sage increasing the essential oils of any Will keep the cabbage nearby herbs, chamomile can help moths away. basil, wheat, onions, cabbage and cucumber plants. This herb also attracts hoverflies and wasps, which Herb Companion Planting assist in pollination and prey on aphids and other pest insects. From Mother Earth News Chive: A long-term investment, Herbs as Companion Plants Basil: Basil can benefit the growth chives are often planted in Herbs will really add to your petunias and the flavors of conjunction with tomatoes, carrots, tomatoes, asparagus, peppers and vegetable garden! apple trees and roses. At first oregano; it should not be planted growth they will repel aphids from near common rue or sage. To Basil — Tomatoes, Eggplant tomatoes, mums and sunflowers, increase the essential oils in your and after about three years they basil, plant chamomile or anise. Dill — Cabbage have known to prevent apple scab and rose black spot. Borage: Borage acts as a deterrent Chives — Carrots to tomato hornworms and cabbage Cilantro/Coriander: This familiar worms and is known to attract bees Thyme, Sage, Bee Balm, Mint — kitchen spice will deter aphids, and wasps. It also improves soil potato beetles, and spider mites. It’s Tomatoes composition and helps any plants a good companion to anise, caraway, near it be more resistant to both spinach and dill. If you have continued problems with spider Mints: Be careful when planting Again, sage grows well with mites, a tea made from coriander mints as they can be very invasive; rosemary, but do not plant it close can repel them. keep it in a container if possible to to rue, cucumbers or onions. prevent its spread. Cuttings of mint Dill: Companion to lettuce, can be beneficially used in mulching Tar ragon: A general nuisance to cabbage, onions, sweet corn and around turnips, cabbage, broccoli pests, tarragon is well-planted cucumbers, dill should not be and mustard, and can also be throughout any garden and can help planted near carrots, caraway, effective in discouraging mice. As a enhance the flavor and growth of lavender or tomatoes (it attracts live plant, spearmint and nearby vegetables, especially tomato horn worms). This herb will peppermint are especially useful in eggplant. keep aphids, spider mites and attracting bees and repelling black squash bugs from taking over your flea beetles, ants, mosquitoes, white garden and will attract hoverflies, cabbage butterflies, aphids and wasps, and honeybees. To avoid cabbage maggots. Do not plant mint cross-pollination, don’t plant dill near parsley. near fennel. Rosemary: Rosemary benefits the Garlic: In addition to its health growth of sage, cabbage, beans and benefits, garlic deters rabbits as carrots by deterring cabbage moths, well as tree borers, aphids, cabbage bean beetles and, if cutting are looper, codling moths, Japanese placed around carrot crowns, carrot beetles, snails, carrot root flies, ants flies. Again, don’t plant rosemary and cabbage maggots. It is near basil or the rosemary will die. especially beneficial when planted near apple, pear and peach trees, Sage: Another herb to pair with roses, cucumbers, peas, lettuce or beans, broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage celery. and carrots as it repels cabbage moths, black flea beetles, carrot flies and some bean parasites. .