We had the day off yesterday and took a quick trip to the garden center, mostly to buy some potted herbs since the re-potted kitchen counter plants seem to have given up the fight. The parsley’s hanging in, but honestly, the parsley wasn’t the most interesting thing there.

So we got a small pot of cilantro, a pot of rosemary, a pot of dill (even their dill doesn’t look thrilled to be here), and a pot of lemon thyme. I have no idea what I’ll do with the lemon thyme, but it smells lovely. We also got a pot of cat grass (to be kept indoors where the cats can eat it) and a small pot of catnip, which I’ll probably keep outdoors for the summer and then bring in, assuming it survives my attentions.

Oh, also, a pot of marigolds. It’s a big pot, but it has perhaps four or five separate plants in it. I’m going to separate them and plant them right in the vegetable garden, where they supposedly will do an organic job of repelling things that will eat the plants. Of course I’ve since read a lot of conflicting stuff about whether or not this works or is indeed an old gardener’s tale, but since we know they don’t hurt anything and they look pretty and add an unexpected splash of color to my very green garden, I’m going to give it a shot. So later on today I’ll be doing a little digging and potting those herbs.

Wish them luck.