I have given up trying to grow anything in the garden apart from shrubs, i have wasted hundreds of pounds on bedding plants over the yrs just to brighten the place up a bit in the spring/summer, no matter what i plant in, the slugs & snails eat them.
I planted a selection of herbs & all that survived was a small patch of mint & some cloves, i did have a bit more sucess when i planted the stufff in lengths of plastic underground pipeing, i just stood it up on end & shoved it in the ground to secure it & filled it with compost & planted the herbs & put a bit of