Four beds dug and planted in the herb garden

Leia the Wwoofer has been helping me double dig the intensive beds in the herb garden and they've been planted up with an assortment of edible, medicinal or otherwise useful herbs.

The first bed nearest the camera on the left has been named the poisons bed and has some of the more dangerous herbs in it (with a couple of safe ones that I'll duplicate in the edible beds) 

They are numbered one to four as you go back from the camera.


Herb bed 1: The poisons bed


From right to left


Papaver somniferum Poppy the giant 
Artemisia absinthum Wormwood

Valeriana officinalis Valerian
Atropa bella-donna Deadly night shade
Lactuca virosa Wild Lettuce
Hyoscyamus niger Black henbane
Levisticum officinale Lovage (not a poisonous plant it just slipped in there)
Poterium Sanguisorba Salad burnet (also not a poison)
Saponaria officinalis Soapwort


Herb bed 2
Left to right
Petroselinum crispum Var. tuberosum Hamburg rooted parsley about a 60cm by 80cm block
Agrimonia eupatoria Agrimony
Carum carvi Caraway
Cichorium intybus Wild chichory
Levisticum officinale Lovage 

Poterium Sanguisorba Salad burnet

Anthriscus cerefolium Chervil

Herb Bed 3 (Cold frame)
Right to left
Allium schoenoprasum Chives (I also found a few bright purple potatoes that looked healthy so I put them in with the chives I'll give them a feed a bit later)
Monarda fistulosa Bergamot
Calendula arvensis Field marigold (Around the edges of the bed)
Achillea millefolium Yarrow

Isatis tinctoria Woad
Lepidium meyenii Maca
Origanum majorana Sweet Marjoram
Satureja hortensis Summer savoury
Nepeta cataria Catmint
Satureja montana Winter savoury
Teucrium scorodonia Wood sage
Silybum marianum Milk thistle
Ephedra sinica Ma huang


Herb bed 4 (Narrow bed about half the width of the others and a bit longer)


Half the bed was planted quite densely with Fragaria vesca Wild strawberry plants that I dug out of bed 3


from left to right
Artemisia absinthum Wormwood (this can be eaten in small quantities but I'll warn people about it if it germinates)
Artemisia dracunculoides  Russian tarragon
Levisticum officinale Lovage
Foeniculum vulgare Fennel

Allium fistulosum Welsh onion

And these are next. 

Brought in the Morus seeds from outside, here's hoping they germinate. The Monkey puzzes are germinating will pot them on soon.

The hotbeds are flourishing. I'll report on what's germinated soon but my melons have started so till next time.