Quote Originally Posted by Green-Moo View Post
This may be a nice spot to create a herb spiral. You can find some great designs to copy on the net & plant it up with herbs that you use in the kitchen. Can you create a channel to draw rainwater away from the bed whilst it establishes? Perhaps put down paving tiles or gravel for drainage, then put your spiral, or even just some pots, on top of it.
Green-Moo, that sounds interesting! I've never seen a herb spiral. Yes, I could create a channel ok I think...it's just the amount of water that pours off that edge is from the whole hill might be too much for it. I'd need to figure out how deep it would need to be. I love the gravel idea with pots on top of it. I'll investigate herb spirals more, thanks very much for that idea!

Any suggestions on herbs suited to shade? It does get a bit of sun in the morning, maybe a couple of hours but once the trees fill in more that might not be the case.