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Indoor herb recommendations

fizzylizfizzyliz Posts: 398
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Hi,
Have a nice three pot herb planter in kitchen - what would be the best herbs to go in it? 
It’s on a south ish facing windowsill.
We were already bought a basil - although I read this will die off in winter?
want some that will last all year round and look good too as it’s partly for decorative purposes like house plants would be! (Plus hoping to have a herb garden outside on future).
Many thanks 😊

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  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    I'd use supermarket herbs if their pots will fit.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • raisingirlraisingirl Posts: 7,093
    If you use SM herbs you need to take them out of their pots, split them and repot no more than about a quarter of the ones the SMs have. They are always desperately overcrowded and never live more than a month, no matter how carefully you water them. 
    But the advantage of using the SM ones is they usually keep stocks right through winter so you can swap them as the season goes on. It depends how warm your kitchen is whether basil will keep going. Flat leaf parsley, chives, leaf coriander, probably thyme, Greek basil, marjoram will all cope in small pots. But grow what you will eat because you need to keep picking/trimming them to keep them going, so which herbs do you use?
    Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon

    “It's still magic even if you know how it's done.” 
  • msqingxiaomsqingxiao Posts: 482
    My rosemary was bought from supermarket and has been living happily in my outdoor planter for many months now. 
  • raisingirlraisingirl Posts: 7,093
    rosemary is a really large woody plant. Very happy outdoors, not so much indoors, not once it gets growing, anyway
    Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon

    “It's still magic even if you know how it's done.” 
  • bcpathomebcpathome Posts: 1,313
    Grow what you use .You can’t treat herbs like a houseplant really because they need to be picked on a regular basis to keep them going .Unless you pick them and just throw it out to keep it going ,which would be absurd.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    I cut my parsley and use it. When there's practically nothing left, I put it outside. It often sprouts again. 
    In London. Keen but lazy.
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