I love garlic - have always wanted to plant it and never have. Maybe next year ..... hope your bulbs are as good as the tops are indicating! :-)
I have recipes that call for fresh thyme so I love growing that particular herb (2 kinds this year). My Thanksgiving dressing calls for sage. Basil for pesto, but I may try salt preserving this year (if the bugs don’t eat all my basil leaves first!). I’ve also got lemon verbena & oregano. My big rosemary plant died so I have a small one planted - don’t use it in cooking so much, just love rubbing my hand over the needles ... that smell is delicious and one of my favorites.
Here in the northeast, oregano, thyme, and sage are perennials.
I plant basil every year and have never seen anything attack that. I planted lavender last year and thought I lost it all but much of it is coming back.
The past few years I’ve grown lemon verbena and love it! I didn’t see it at the garden center this year, so I have none. I made wonderful lemon verbena liqueur from it the first year, which goes nicely as a sipper or in iced tea for a type of Arnold Palmer with a twist.
I’m just getting over CoVid, which was like a normal cold for me, so I will be taking it easy today still before hopefully getting back in the yard tomorrow. I still have a few flowers that I want to put into containers or the ground.
Last week I repotted the shallots that I had started last summer. The container they were in wasn’t draining well enough. So I dug them all up and separated them from their wet soil, let them dry out for a few hours. I drilled more holes in the container which is like a portable raised bed on wheels. I always disinfect with a bleach solution for 10 minutes when reusing a container. Then dried it out and put in fresh organic potting mix. I replanted the shallots and so far I think they are improving. They finally aren’t soggy after a rain, just wet. I probably lost half of the shallots that originally planted, so it will be a smaller crop, but hopefully I will get something from these. A few look like they are forming a blossom. Since I’ve never grown shallots before, can anyone tell me when they should be ready? Thanks much for any input.