The herbs I bought for my apartment's balcony this summer are spending their first winter indoors on the windowsill. The basil is doing great. The mint is OK. The oregano shriveled up pretty quick, but I think it's just sleeping and will wake back up when it gets warm out. (I hope.)
I may throw caution to the wind and try some small veggies on the balcony this year too... ah, but that's many months from now. Canadian winters last a long long time.
Oooh, yes! In fact, if I didn't grow herbs indoors, we wouldn't have too many at all. The ones that have worked the best for us are chives, rosemary (as long as I remember to bring it outside at the first hint of warmth) and flat-leafed parsley.
I'm thinking about moving the Czek Black chiles indoors this fall. Apparently they can be perennials, but this is the first time I'll be testing it myself.
It is the dark cold and soggy time of year so it's all clean up phase.
We grow basil in large outdoor pots, and even though they die back, seed drop from the end of one season sprouts in the spring, so we have had basil for three years with no additional seeding.
The rosemary is a hardy herb, and we have that year round in large pots outdoors. Inside we grow chives and mint. We dry our herbs as long as they are producing except the basil that we let the last fall leaves seed out.
My wife prefers feeding the butterflies, so on our small burb lot in Mesquite, we have more space alloted for milkweed and other butterfly plants.
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