We do the same with our tomatoes. We don't have much luck with lettuce. The weather's too unpredictable in winter and it has a very bad habit of becoming 'summer' overnight! LOL!
Don't know if you've grown any herbs, but a couple of things I've learned is that rosemary makes a lovely bush suitable for landscaping and herbs like dill and mint shouldn't be planted anywhere you don't want them to take over....they're masters of self-propigation!
Oh,,, and if you plant oregano, I'd suggest the Mediterranean variety. It's a much hardier plant than some of the others.
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Glad to hear from you again, teeny! I, for one, DID wonder where you'd gone, but there are quite a few of us 'oldtimers' who have left or just don't post all that much anymore.
I do have a bunch of perennial herbs planted; the front garden at this place was full of water dependent plants that served no real purpose. The first summer we were here was very dry, and most of them died. I have been replacing all the regular landscaping with edibles for a while. Several years ago it occurred to me that I had spent years landscaping with plants that were just pretty, and not necessarily useful. Now, everything I plant has to serve at least two purposes. I have blueberry bushes, raspberries, fennel, sage, rosemary, lavender, marjoram, thyme, basil, and a bunch of others in my front gardens. I keep all my mints and chives and such in pots in that garden, too, but also have get-as-big-as-you-want areas of mint, too, because I use it for my ever-present nausea. Works great!
I love being able to just step outside and gather herbs for dinner.