Wow that trug looks the business Diane65. I may be tempted to use supermarket herbs in pots - use the leaves until your ready but bury them in them in the compost/soil. This has worked for me in the past, especially good when the herbs and the mixed leaves were in the reduced section. You can still sow the mixed leaves salad seeds just take care that they don't bolt - go straight to flower and seed.
In this picture there are
mint - kept under control in an old fryer base, has drainage holes. Supermarket cut herb, grown on in water - really easy to grow mint, divided and grown on.
Spring onions - cut the roots off, plopped into water for a couple of hours then pushed into 2 holes in the ground. Did have an issue with slugs but pellets sorted that.
sage - grown from a supermarket pot. I used a couple of Christmases ago.
Garlic cloves in a pot. These had started to sprout so I put them in a pot to grown on.
Going to grow more root things for the tops to use in salads, carrots, onions, fennel.
These are my chives, I have LOADS of flower heads and will bring some to next FMUKcon. In the meantime, they grow quite fast, so either seeds or the pot (route/root).......oh no broken out into puns.
Orchids ......have no idea. that is my dd2's domain. She has brought back to life things that looked dead to me. Will ask her about them.
Stuartboy, you reminded me of my first house where sheep had jumped in and eaten all my plants. I marched into the police station and asked if I could shoot them!! (Only had a air-rifle) The policeman said no, but if I could catch it then I could put up notices to identify the sheep and ask that the owner reimburse me for the inconvenience. i must have looked like I was off my trolley
You could do with watching a good musical to brighten your mood - Can I recommend Jersey Boys or Walking on Sunshine? 
(nothing is better than girls beating the boys 
not from the last tenant though as it was just a girl and her wee boy in this house before us. And the remnants of a fence and lots of branches from trees which I'm gonna have to get the council to remove. A couple of people have said to paint the tyre and use it as a garden feature, i'm not too sure yet. Gonna have to liven the grass up a bit too, its looking awfy peely wally lol.