Herb garden redo

With spring in the air, and our new house and garden, it was time to rescue the neglected herbs. Previously planted in unattractive long green planters, the herbs had been long neglected since we moved out of our Fairlight townhouse in June. The basil had become woody and sparse, the spinach had been all eaten (by a spinach-loving-toddler who didn't discern leaves from roots), and the rosemary was starting to get brown leaves.


I think you'll agree this little corner of our balcony looks pretty drab and unattractive. So after a little reading about how to care for each of our herbs, and taking a little inspiration from my mum's herb corner, I bought some new basil, spinach and lavender, and a number of different sized pots to repot the herbs into.

This is the result:



A little more attractive, definitely more lush, and I love the pop of lavender in the back. We still reused the chalkboard garden stakes, and what remains of the red and white toadstools. The oregano, the rosemary and the very sad looking parsley are all from the old pots.

We have spent the last 5 months renovating and repairing the interior of the house (more on those renovations to come soon), and whilst we have many plans for the garden area, this may be all we manage for the next year.

Once again, I had a little boy delighted to help "move the dirt" using his dump truck and spade. Though I'm not terribly sure how much dirt got moved into those new pots - it all just ended up on the balcony. He had fun though and it was an hour of dirty fun spent together.



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Chalkboard Garden Stakes and Toadstools

I had quite a lot of fun with my 2 little boys planting some new herbs in our garden on the weekend. Too much fun in fact, to take any photos of the 2 of them up to their elbows in dirt and mud. Apparently, little boys love digging in dirt - who knew?! :)

My 3 year old was especially excited when we bought some cute little chalkboard garden stakes to label our herbs with. We bought them at one of our favourite coffee shops, Favourite Things, which is stocked full of - well favourite things. My mum actually bought us the cute red toadstools in the same shop a few months ago. We go to this cafe on Tuesdays either before or after the boys music classes and I think my son is of the opinion that they "make the BEST baby-ccino's" as they come with a chocolate coated snake.

Hopefully this lot of herbs survive a little better than the last lot which suffered from too much water as I had planted them in what was previously a fish pond. I didn't really think through the drainage issue very well. This time we planted the herbs is pots resting in the space that used to be a fish pond.








I am looking forward to having Noah and Beau help me water and care for these herbs and especially the spinach which Noah is super excited to eat!

What do you love planting and/or eating from your garden?

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