Not much grows in the winter months, even in greenhouse, due to less light around. You could start off with some hardy woody herbs like thyme and sage. Give them light protection with some fleece this winter as they've probably not had time to establish if planted this late in the year.
I currently grow:
Sage (grown from seed)
Purple Sage (bought, only way to go for the Purple/Red cultivars)
Thyme (grown from seed)
Golden Thyme (bought)
Oregano (grown from seed)
Mint (bought, spearmint and black peppermint)
Calendula/ Pot Marigold (grown from seed)
Feverfew (bought)
Dyer's Chamomile (bought)
Chives (grown from seed originally, now I have millions of the *****s every year when I divide the plants up)
Sweet Cicley (bought)
Soapwort (bought, couldn't get it to grow from seed)
Comfrey (bought)
Nigella, both nigella damascena and nigella sativa (bought the N. Sativa, grew from seed the N. damascena)
Good King Henry (bought)
Dianthus (bought, edible flowers)
Borage (grew from seed, decided to grow to a monsterous size, horribly painfully pointy stems and leaves. Had to hoe off its selfseeded seedlings yesterday).
Tree Onion (bought)
Basil 'Purple Ruffles' (sown)
Coriander (seeds the only way to go)
Wormwood (sown)
Rosemary (bought)
Bay trees. I have lots of little ones I bought from B&Q. 10 little seedlings/saplings in one pot for £2.50. Lost one or two but the other 8 are doing well.
I think that's all of them!
Tried Dill twice but the snails and slugs got it and then the borage next to it grew too big. Going to try to grow it again in rootrainer plugs next year until they're a reasonable healthy size.
Really can't seem to get perilla/shisho to grow. I buy seed from everywhere and sow it like basil and it doesn't grow :roll: I might try autumn sowing. Otherwise I've read the seeds go dormant for 2-3 years so I might just store them and try very hard to forget them for a few years.
Also I don't buy the plants from supermarkets because they're usually about 20+ little seedlings forced to grow together in a 4inch pot. If you plant them out, they just flop over, much like the chickens bred to have lots of breast meat just fall over from how they're grown.
I cleared out the nigella bed yesterday so I've been looking in my big herb garden book for ideas of what to put in next. If I can't decide in the next few days, I'll just sow a green manure in the patches of bare soil.
Sometimes I wish I could have one of the neighbouring plots for a full herb garden and try to grow everything imaginable
I find herbs fascinating and I like the stories behind them all, even if a lot of them no longer have a modern use.