Herb Collection

Create your own herb garden with this great collection of six herbs and you’ll never have to buy them from the supermarket again! Not only is growing your own herbs extremely handy when it comes to cooking, they will produce attractive flowers that will encourage beneficial pollinators into your garden. Perfect for planting in pots separately or in a raised planter all together and have them somewhere that you can easily get to them, especially on a rainy day.

In this collection:

• Garden Mint – Best grown in a pot to keep it under control, it’ll grow to a height and spread of up to 1m (3ft).
• Chive – They have a spring onion flavour and produce bright pink edible flowers. Growing to a height and spread of 30cm (1ft).
• Rosemary – Produces attractive blue summer flowers. Reaching a height and spread of up to 1.2m (4ft).
• Salvia ‘Fotado’, Green Sage – Highly aromatic foliage and a strong herbal flavour. Growing to a height and spread of 1m (3ft).
• Parsley – Lightly scented, fresh tasting leaves and the stems are also full of flavour. Grows to a height and spread of 30cm (1ft).
• Thyme – Wonderfully scented foliage that’s popular in Mediterranean dishes. Grows to a height and spread of 25cm (10in).

Delivered as 12 plug plants, ready to grow on before planting.

Top Tips

• Pick little and often to encourage bushier plants and young leaves for cooking.

Care Guide

Most herbs thrive in ordinary garden soil, as long as it has good drainage.

On receipt, unpack plugs immediately and stand them in water for an hour. If you can?t do this, they can sit in their mini greenhouse for a week if upright and not too wet.

Plugs may be slightly dry or yellow after being in a dark box in the post, but they will quickly recover. Put them somewhere warm, light and airy such as a windowsill or greenhouse.

Pot up herb plugs and grow them on in warm, frost-free conditions until all risk of frost has passed. Alternatively, plant them out directly into their final positions outside when there is no further risk of frost.

When potting on, handle plugs carefully. Pot on using our 9cm pots in Shuttle Trays, using good-quality, multi-purpose compost, or pot them into a large container to be situated near your kitchen door.

Give your plants a good water initially, then only when the top compost starts to dry. They don?t like to be left in standing water.

Plant approx. 20cm (8in) apart to allow them room to grow.