April 4, 2026
herbs, parsley, cilantro, basil, planting log | permalink
I put one row of each of these in the front of the left bed, just in front of the two rows of beets I planted last week. First parsley, then cilantro, then basil. These rows were a bit closer than the rest of the bed - maybe 8" apart instead of 10 to 12. The parsley and cilantro were spaced two inches between each seed, while I did the basil every inch. Hopefully the heights work out as planned, with the basil somewhat shading the parsley and cilantro but with neither of those latter two shading the beets. However, thinking of it afterward, I shouldn't have put the basil in there but rather another row of cilantro probably, since the wildlife seem to mostly leave the basil alone aside from the infrequent nibble. (More than nibbling is the reason I'm moving the cilantro and parsley from the unprotected herb garden to the fenced-in vegetable garden this year.) There were only about a dozen basil seeds left in the packet, so I threw them in the garlic bed, along with a few cilantro for the hell of it. The cilantro seeds were those I'd saved from the herb garden in 2024, the basil I'd saved and packaged on Oct 3, 2025, and the parsley from a store-bought package from 2024.