Q. I live on the dry side of Texas, and I'd like to start a perennial herb garden.
Which herbs can take the heat best? It's hard to find areas around my house that have medium shade; it's either total shade or blazing sun in summer.
We can get weeks of 90-plus degrees.
Which herbs can take the heat best? It's hard to find areas around my house that have medium shade; it's either total shade or blazing sun in summer.
We can get weeks of 90-plus degrees.
A. While I have lived in New Mexico and Arizona for many years I always lived at higher elevations where the temps were moderate. We would always got a few weeks of over a hundred but not the months on end of Phoenix or Albuquerque.
I had good luck always with rosemary and sage, mints and chives. A well planned herb garden does not have to take up a lot of space and can be shaded with a small arbor and shade cloth that blocks forty percent of the sun or less. And don't top water them in the heat of the day. Some herbs like to be on the dry side and some require a moist soil so I'd try about anything and look up each one you plan to try for specifics of their requirements. It's all on line me thinks.
Namaste'
I had good luck always with rosemary and sage, mints and chives. A well planned herb garden does not have to take up a lot of space and can be shaded with a small arbor and shade cloth that blocks forty percent of the sun or less. And don't top water them in the heat of the day. Some herbs like to be on the dry side and some require a moist soil so I'd try about anything and look up each one you plan to try for specifics of their requirements. It's all on line me thinks.
Namaste'
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