Oh I would love to have a little herb garden

Have seriously been thinking about this today and I found a nice little spot but I just don’t know what I would use fresh.

We have started a wonderful herb garden

fabulous there is nothing better than fresh herbs

I love a herb garden – love fresh herbs.

I love growing parsley (especially Italian flat leaf parsley). I haven’t bought any in years as I let it flower and seed. So easy and so lovely to eat.

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  • • mom93821 replied
    • 25 Jan 2016 , 9:40 am

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  Herbs are definitely cheap and easy to grow.

Keep the mint contained as it can spread everywhere and become a weed.

Parsley seeds at the end of its usefulness. You may be able to dry the seeds and use them to plant more. One of my neighbours has it coming up everywhere. The previous owner obviously let some go to seed. Now they are even coming up between the pavers. If you keep it picked regularly it should keeping producing parsley for a few months

Have have some rosemary growing. My neighbour grows lots of herbs

Herb gardens are the way to start a love of gardening – I have all the herbs growing mostly all year round and it’s wonderful to just pick them when they are needed in a recipe or just to add a different taste to your spag. bog. or other mundane everyday liked meal.

I am so terrible in the garden, my herbs always die! But I am determined to get a herb garden going again and this time I will be extra good at looking after them!

love the use of the pot with the different holes for herbs. looks great!

I love my herb garden. When it gets too big, I cut it back and dry them to use later. We’ve got basil, oregano, mint, chocolate mint, chives, garlic chives, shallots, thyme, rosemary, curry plant, mushroom plant, sage, parsley, wasabi rocket, and (I know there’s others I’ve forgotten).
I find the hardy ones are the chives, oregano, and rosemary. Mint love water. Basil will go woody if allowed to flower, and will die (I dry excess to use when my new plants are still growing). Oregano and mint are invasive and will keep spreading if not confined.
I’m always looking for new varieties to try. I have some in pots, some in the garden, and some on my kitchen window sill. I love the smell of my new curry plant (like opening a Keens tin), but it is not a strong overpowering flavour. I find the flavour of the mushroom plant when raw isn’t a favourite, but thrown in soups and stews gives that extra flavour hit when you don’t have real mushrooms on hand. Have fun trying!

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  • • mom90758 replied
    • 23 Jan 2016 , 12:01 pm

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  So many wonderful ideas. I’d love to try with the curry leaves too!!

Ooh I would love to have a herb garden. I’ve given my in laws (we live with them) pumpkins seeds that sprouted with a bit of water in a snap lock bag. We now have a massive pumpkin patch in our back yard. I’ve also managed to get an avocado to sprout. Wealso have passionfruit, pineapple, tomatoes growing in the yard. It’s so rewarding using your own home grown plants. You feel accomplished and proud of what you’ve grown.

yeah i love herb gardens. they are usually pretty hardy so as long as you keep watering them, it’ll be right

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  • • mom94125 replied
    • 23 Jan 2016 , 5:09 pm

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  i have garlic chives and even if they look dead, a bit of rain will get them green and growing again.

Yes, I’ve got a small herb garden too. Sage and oregano grow very well and need very little maintenance. Rosemary the same, but not in a pot. The parsley is growing everywhere, even where I don’t want him too!! I’ve got mint in a pot. They advised me to keep it in a pot because its roots are very invasive. Another one that grows very well is the bayleaf. I bought a small plant 3 years ago and it’s already quite huge. I love basil too, that I keep inside in a small pot. I had it outside earlier but it was always dying because it needs constant water and I often forgot! Now it’s in the kitchen and every day I remember to water it!
I’ve just started with dill too!

We have grown parsley although now dead, we will grow again. And we have an oregano plant. I would love to grow a herb garden and I have a few ideas of what I would like to achieve (would like to grow basil as we use it a lot, mint, parsley and oregano.

Lke it