Herbs were donated to our garden and they were beautiful plants! All of the herbs except the celery were planted on Friday, June 24. I'm trying to remember what is there at this point and I'll check more carefully on a another day, hopefully even drawing out what is where in case tags get lost. Currently I did leave the plastic tags by the plants.
Nasturtiums are planted near the mailbox. The leaves and flowers are edible and make your salad look beautiful!
Summer savory is planted in an 'x' shape in the bed with marjoram and oregano in the sides. Chives are to the back and thyme is planted along both sides. I haven't used summer savory before so we'll have to explore that one.
Summer Savory in the Herb Garden
I am not sure what is to the left of the daisies. Does anyone know? It might be summer savory?
That is borage with the purple flowers. I froze the edible flowers in ice cubes once :) The flowers are beautiful in salads and the young leaves are good for salads as well but the prickly plant just doesn't make me want to throw those young leaves in!
The plant is great for attracting bees to the garden so we need them! Here is some information about borage.
All About Borage at Homestead and Gardens
This bed also has some dill plants in the middle and two rhubarb plants someone put in last fall I think it was.
How to grow and use dill.
This bed has a lot of basil. It doesn't winter over but will be great to use fresh or dry it and save for winter. Basil was also put in the other beds here and there because there was so much of it. That's great! It's a more commonly used herb.
The best way to keep fresh basil.
10 Delicious ways to use basil in the kitchen. Yum! Look at that caprese salad!
You'll also find two kinds of fennel.
How to chop fennel.
How to use fennel at home.
The bed behind the mailbox one is where the garlic chives were planted along with more basil and space for the celery to go wild!
So... what are we missing.... sage? mints take over but are nice to have....? We can keep that in mind and maybe add to things next year.
At any rate, what a great bunch of herbs to get us going! They were beautiful plants. Feel free to send some water their way when you're in the garden if you see they could use it.
Also feel free to comment, add tips etc. to this blog.
Just a little experiment to help us learn and keep in touch.
