[Jamie Butterworth]

Can anyone recomend any good suplliers for herb plants/seeds? My mum wants a herb section in the garden

[grenhouse]

I'm guessing thats suppliers of herb plants/seeds!
I got mine from moreveg on the tinternet. Also got a mixed pack of 6 herbs from poundland which have done fantastic.

Steve

[peapod]

Wilkinsons - as ever!

[JayG]

Jamie: ask your mum which herbs she actually likes, check out the area she wants to grow them in (near the kitchen is usually a good idea but not if it's the shadiest part of the garden), and then have a think about which are perennials and might be better bought quite cheaply from a garden centre in small pots to get them started. Annual herbs from seeds can be started anytime soon and I wouldn't bother shopping around for them; they are not expensive.

There are a lot of herbs to choose from and most like sunny locations and well-drained soil but that doesn't mean you should be too unkind to them! There are a few which will tolerate or even prefer moister conditions (parsley springs to mind,) and a few which if your mum really likes them would probably be better grown indoors where you are in Wakefield (basil, for example.)

[peapod]

and if she chooses mint then grow it in a pot sunk into the ground.  It can be a real thug

[Jamie Butterworth]

Thanks for the advice I think that the ones she uses most are:

Parsley,
Mint,
Basil,
Chives,
Corriander.

I sowed the basil a while back and they are doing well. I will do what you say with the mint The chives I have seem to be doing well aswell

[tosca100]

Don't discount the growing herbs in supermarkets, those pots are a mass of seedlings, ready to be split into several plants. Best to use the tops first or they flop everywhere. I have got parsley, chives, basil and mint growing nicely. The mint and chives have been in a few years and are prolific. I put parsley in every year as it is really a bi-annual, and basil is tender so needs to go in every year too, often they can be bought bogof this time of the year. Hope this helps.

[Scribbler]

Try these people:

http://www.nickys-nursery.co.uk/