I have been thinking recently 
We have a back garden and I am thinking of planting some stuff there …Like herbs , corriander , mint etc …
The weather here in Liverpool is really rainy and cold , rains all through the year with little or no sunshine 
Please recommend me plants /herbs I can grow in the garden .. I am very interested in corriander, mint, basil, Dil … would these grow or not? What other things can i grow at home?
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I don’t know much about gardening but my father loves it..we always have a kitchen garden maintained by my dad.. but that’s in Pak and the weather is quite different there..
btw I love green chillies and love using them fresh from the garden..dunno if they’ll grow there 
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green chillies is like really hard work isnt it , I think they only come up once a year .. .. I might be wrong …
Coriander, mint, spring onions and tomatoes will definitely grow. Weather here is pretty similar to Liverpool so that should be ok.
My aunty is London also grows grapes:hmmm:
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I have no idea CB :(
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Masi 
… now go learn gardening 
…
Dildi , thats fabulous 
know anyone who grows herbs?
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Grow mint in a big garden pot otherwise it will take over a very large area of garden and would become an eyesore pretty fast. Mint is very invasive and grows very fast.
I live in USA therefore I do not know what is native to your weather and soil. Do some research on the internet on many gardening sites.
I learned a lot from those sites. I am a beginner too. So for I have successfully grown , Watermelons, various kinds of chillies , mint , eggplant , various varieties of tomatoes, cucumbers, trying to grow curry leaves . Which so far has not been successful.
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They will grow, even in a rainy area. :D
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really hareem ? you mean herbs?
Thanks Mirch , your post really did inspire me … i will start looking at websites …
That's a great idea CB :)
You can grow almost anything in pots too....I only have mint in my garden which comes from next door,only because I'm too lazy to dig.Yes,it's very invasive as mirch said,so a pot buried in the soil would be best,but it's lovely and you can many different varieties.I also have lemon mint.
The rest of my herbs and veg are all pot grown. I usually grow,chillis,peppers,courgettes,tomatoes,basil,coriander,beans,strawberries.I tried baingan too last year,but went on holiday and it died of neglect,so I may give it another try this year.
Tomatoes look lovely in hanging baskets,as do strawberries.
Oh,and I've also grown some potatoes successfully too.You know when they go all green and sprouty...well just chop them up with a sprout in each piece and bury in the garden.Wait until the white flowers have died down and then dig up flavoursome little potatoes.Yummy.there's nothing like home grown veg.
Blimey,I sound like Farmer Giles..
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charmed , you do indeed sound like farmer giles 
… Guys you gotta help me out … i am not a big fan of the farming bit , or the gardens 
… but I am a big fan of enjoying home grown foods …
So yeah will need likes lots of help to decide what I wanna grow 
.. charmed you mentioned chillies .. you mean green chillies? I think it grows into a little shrub right ? do the chillies keep coming all year round or do they come only once a year? … and the same questions about basil too .. how do you grow basil?
We’ve moved homes 3 times and in each of our homes my mum planted mint. Almost 30 years ago, she got some mint cuttings from a European neighbour and loved the variety. Every time we’ve moved, she’s gone back to the old house and gotten cuttings to plant in her new garden. It’s a very hardy plant and withstands harsh winters to sprout up each year. The thing is mint is not so easy to come by in supermarkets or if you do buy it, it’s pretty expensive - so this is convenient and saves money.
Just use pots…that’s what I do.In the ground you have to worry about slugs…yuk…which ate my carrots one year.
Chillis are easy.They do grow into a little shrub like with tiny flowers,and the chillis just keep coming.In fact the more you pick the more they grow.
Try courgettes,which are very easy…ditto beans and toms.
Basil is in a pot too…just keep picking the leaves and it just carries on growing.Just make you have good drainage esp in the rain.It’s very satisfying picking your own.
HTH 
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yes sehrysh , Mint and corriander are must haves in a desi garden .. we love the chatni’s done we
Please can you do me a favour and find out from your mom how and what to do for mint and corriander farming … .. I have suddenly gone from Facebook’s farmville to real farming feels odd
Charmed you are getting me all excited 
… I wanna start my little farm asap , inshallah when we move in a months time …
so chillies are in as well … yeah slug issue 
i havnt even started thinking about it yet 
..I have heard nothing can stop them from coming 
.. is that true?
Aww bless hun
you can get slug pellets to stop the little b*****s munching your veg.Or some people say you can use eggshells or even salt,but I think the slugs in my garden very dheet…grrr
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They are very very deeth indeed , we have them come into our kitchen from under the kitchen door during the slug season .. I dread them so much :no: … I just dont like the salt idea coz i know it might hurt them real bad … you know if salt sticks to them , it can wound them .. and all i wanna do is to divert their route from my kitchen to the garden :hinna:
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You big softie CB :)
I know what you mean though.I spray the aphids on my shrubs with washing up liquid rather than use a chemical spray.Tough on my wrists I can tell you.
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Ohhh gosh i havnt even started thinking of the pest issues with plantation 
.. I think them are the key issue why i hate planting
So does my mum! We had so many bunches one year we sold them to a local farm.