herbs

I brought some pots of cutting herbs at Waitrose yesterday - basil, corriander and parsley. 

Gardening writers are usually very sniffy about buying these pots of herbs and planting them, but I have been reasonably successful.  I have some flat-leaved chives from some years ago that I have to weed to stop spreading too far, parsley which I plant fresh each year, basil which I get fresh each year, planting into a larger pot and keeping in the conservatory (they wouldn't survive the slugs for a night in the garden!), and I had a pot of mint outside last year which I thought had died at the end of the summer, but it is growing again now.

I am not sure whether corriander would thrive outside, so I will have that with the basil in a trough in conservatory.  If I see some more at the supermarket on Saturday, I might get a pot to plant out in the garden to see how it fares.