This past Friday was a beautiful, perfect day so I decided to leave work a couple of hours early so I could get to a local nursery and pick out some of the herbs I was going to plant this weekend.   I ended up at a nursery still in a semi rural area though development has certainly been ratcheting up around here in the last few years and I am sure it will not remain semi rural for long.

Here are pics of the nursery:

I had printed out all the comments on my last post where OS’ers gave me wonderful advice on growing herbs, I also looked at some videos on line that were about this most basic of gardening techniques.  I had read the comments and wrote down some of the advice on notecards and took them with me.

I admit to being a bit overwhelmed with all the gorgeousness of the plants and flowers and I wanted to take everything home.  However, I have bought pretty plants with purple and orange and blue flowers in the past and they have all died so I reminded myself I was here only for herbs.   At a couple of points though I wanted to give up on the entire project because there were so many choices and I felt like I didn’t know what I was doing.

There were many different kinds of each herb, many kinds of thyme in particular.  There were herb pots for sale but they had no names so I didn’t know what kind of herbs were in the pot so I went with my original plan which is to buy herbs with names and keep the names close.   I ended up getting these: cilantro, (my favorite), basil, blue rosemary, rosemary spice island, creeping lemon thyme and golden lemon thyme, curry (b/c it smelled delicious!), herb salvia which is golden sage (I hope this is the edible kind but am not sure, it’s very pretty though) and then I also added green okra and green bell pepper plants.

Since I needed so many pots I went to a supercenter to buy them, the fertilizer and the potting soil.  All in all, I spent about $75 on everything.

My nieces and I got up on Sunday ready to do some gardening and it was cold!, it was about 60 degrees which is why you see them in jackets in the picture!

Yes I let my nieces play in the mud afterward which is why you see mud on her dress.  (I washed everything though before their parents came home)

I want to thank everyone again who gave me advice on this, I really appreciated all of it.