KCCG Herb Plants
Herbs go on sale on April 25th for Green & Yellow Cards and April 26th for all Cards.
Warm Season
Planting Dates: May 1- May 31
This is a classic Genovese (Italian) basil variety with impressive resistance to downy mildew. Fast growing, dark green glossy leaves and traditional aroma. Basil is an extremely important culinary herb and fresh basil is an essential ingredient for pesto. If you let it flower, it slows the leaf growth but provides forage for bees. 24 -28” tall (hybrid) (annual)
Warm Season
Planting Dates: May 1- May 31
Ornamental and edible “Thai type” basil with larger leaves and showy purple stems and attractive purple-red flowers.
Cool Season
Spring Planting Dates:
March 15- April 15
Fall Planting Dates:
July 20- August 10
This is the standard garden chives. Long green stems with onion flavor. Purple blossoms in spring. Chives are a member of the onion family. It grows in clumps that get thicker but can be cut repeatedly and will regrow. Very tolerant of cold weather. Use fresh or sauteed to add “green onion” flavoring. High in vitamins C and K. (perennial
Cool Season
Spring Planting Dates:
March 15- April 15
Fall Planting Dates:
July 20- August 10
This leafy salad herb has a pleasingly sour or acidic taste. Typically used fresh in salad, soups and stews. Younger, smaller leaves are best as they are less acidic. Remove the flowers as they form to keep up leaf production. (perennial)
Cool Season
Spring Planting Dates:
March 15- April 15
Fall Planting Dates:
July 20- August 10
Similar in growth habit to onion chives but with a mild garlic flavor and fragrance. Garlic chives also have flat leaf stalks instead of the round leaf stalks of onion chives. Beautiful white star shaped flowers in summer that attract beneficial insects including soldier beetles. Garlic chives spread by freely reseeding. (perennial)
Warm Season
Planting Dates: May 1- May 31
Sometimes call “Sweet Marjoram’, this culinary herb is a relative of oregano and is grown as an annual in our region. It is an important ingredient in the famous herb mix “Herbs de Provence” and is used to season soups, stews, salad dressings, sauces and herbal teas. Marjoram is also sometimes used medicinally for various purposes.
Warm Season
Planting Dates: May 1- May 31
This popular herb is considered essential for Italian and Greek cooking. The low growing stems have small rounded leaves. If you let it flower, it will produce taller flower stalks with attractive clusters of small light purple flowers that attract many beneficial pollinators. Can be used fresh or dried. (perennial)
Warm Season
Planting Dates: May 1- May 31
This preferred culinary variety has huge dark green flat leaves with great flavor. Strong upright stems. Parsley is an important culinary herb that is very nutritious – high in vitamins K, A and C. Parsley plants are very cold tolerant and will live over the winter and flower in the second year and then die. Parsley is a host for black swallowtail butterfly caterpillars. (biennial)
Warm Season
Planting Dates: May 1- May 31
This popular herb is actually a woody shrub from the Mediterranean region. It is very cold weather tolerant but usually does not survive our winters here. The leaves are silvery green and needle-like with distinctive fragrance. Used fresh or dry in many savory dishes and occasionally in desserts.
(tender perennial)
Cool Season
Spring Planting Dates:
March 15- April 15
Fall Planting Dates:
July 20- August 10
Beautiful gray green leaves with distinctive scent accompanied by gorgeous spikes of small blue lavender flowers in early summer. The leaves are usually dried for use in savory dishes. Dried sage is the herb used to give breakfast sausage its distinctive flavor. Does best in well drained soil. (perennial)
Cool Season
Spring Planting Dates:
March 15- April 15
Fall Planting Dates:
July 20- August 10
This little known herb is used fresh and dried to flavor savory dishes with beans, sausage, cabbage and many other ingredients. Will sometimes reseed. (annual)
Warm Season
Planting Dates: May 1- May 31
This is the standard culinary thyme which is very versatile for use in many dishes. Thyme has complex fragrance and flavor and it goes well with other spices. Tiny leaves on wiry stems. Low growing and very winter hardy. (perennial)
Cool Season Plants
Warm Season Plants
