In today's Q&A, I'm going to answer a question I received from Valerie.

She asked, when it comes to going into the winter, am I going to cover my herbs?

She said we're in the same zone and she was trying to get an idea what she should do with hers.

Just to remind you, I'm in zone 7B, which means we typically won't get lower than 10 degrees at any point in our winter, although even

that is very rare. I would say more common as we're usually in the 20s. And if we get into the

teens, it would be very briefly. So that just gives you an idea where I am when I answered her

question and very simply my answer was no. I don't cover any of my herbs in

my zone 7b garden every year my sage time lemon balm parsley mint chives rosemary I think those are the

main ones that I'm thinking in my head. All of that survives

my winter. But that may not be the case for you, depending on what zone you're gardening in.

And just to give you a brief explanation of your zone, your zone is the average minimum temperature

that you are expected to experience in your winter and it's your zone

that determines whether or not your perennial plants those that will typically last all season

long will actually live because there are plants that are perennial that we tend to grow just

seasonally like peppers

if we get freezing weather.

We think that they're annuals.

Well, they're not if they're actually in an area where it doesn't get to be freezing or frost,

then peppers will survive all winter.

Annuals, by contrast, will complete their life cycle.

They'll go to flower.

When we're talking about herbs, the annuals are going

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