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Do you grow your own herbs?

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Mrs. Chipotle

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I have a little garden in the backyard where I have grown herbs for a few years now. It's pretty overgrown though; I am bad about taking care of it. I do have some chives, rosemary and mint.

What I really should do is plant some herbs in pots so they don't go so crazy.
 
That's what I do. The pots are so much easier! I have a couple that I call "flying saucers" that are about 3 feet wide and only about 8 inches deep and those are great for parsley. I cut it down and it keeps growing so I have plenty of parsley for the freezer and plenty more to dry. Basil goes into regular clay pots and dill and oregano go into the larger, deeper pots. This year I am going to try garlic again. I tried it about 15 years ago but shortly after planting it we had to throw away the dirt in the crocks because of a train derailment and chemicals released in the air. I had to get rid of all my good dirt that I had in my pots after that.
 
Nope, I don't have a green thumb at all. So I'm a slave to buying them at my local farmers market.
 
I am not so good at growing anything green (flowers, plants, veggies, herbs, you name it). However, I need to give it another try. Herbs are expensive at the store and it seems like I never use up the package. I hate wasting them.
 
I never thought I would be able to grow herbs. My first attempt was with parsley. I bought a pack of seeds and because I didn't know how successful I would be, I dumpled them in a large flower pot. This way if they didn't grow or if I did something wrong I could always buy a floral plant and plant it in place of parslry.

To my surprise - I had parsley. And it looked as if I had known what I was doing - LOL! To use it, I would cut it down and to my surprise it grew right back. That year I had quite a bit of parsley and it gave me the confidence I needed to grown basil, dill, chives, etc.

If anyone wanted to try growing their own - I would suggest starting with parsley - it was very easy.
 
Actually, I have grown some chocolate mint. A friend gave us a snippet of one of their plants and it just took off. Mint grows like a weed! It's everywhere now.
 
I've never fancied mint, but if it really grows so much, maybe you could try selling some of it, and eating the surplus.
 
I use a ton of basil, so I grow that myself. I also have some parsley.
 
When I was a kid, I grew parsley for the monarch butterflies to munch on as caterpillers. They love it. I'm always amazed with those creatures. For something that looks like a bug, they know how to navigate, get across huge bodies of water, and deal with the wind.

Back to the question though, I used to grow my own herbs, but can't do it where I live now as it's too dry.
 
My father always had a garden and would grow mint, thyme, oregano, tomatos, and cukes. Mint it one of those plants that makes you feel good when gardening because it just grows. Thyme is pretty forgiving too.

I don't have time to garden, but I love fresh herbs. They are awful costly at the grocer. I might need to try my hand a a couple herbs next spring and see how I do as a gardener.
 
I used to grow a lot of stuff in my backyard, including herbs. I stopped with the garden, but recently I got one of those chia herb plants, I had that for awhile and it was cool. Now I have nothing... nothing!
 
Chia herb plants! BRILLIANT!!

I had rosemary and basil growing but I went on vacation and forgot to have anyone water them and...dead.
 
I had a Chia Homer and it took so long to grow, I was upset. But then it eventually filled it, and then it started to die, so I had to restore Homer to his original and natural bald state.
 
About the only herb that grows in my garden each year is chives. They just seem to come back each year and is the only plant that all the critters do not eat in the garden.
 
Chives... that's a real familiar name. Oh wait, I'm thinking of Climes, and that's a game. Good herb, though.
 
I have never heard of chia herb plants, but what a great idea.

must check this out.
 
I grow a lot of herbs in pots. I love the fragrance and of course using them in my cooking. That's outdoors.


For indoors I could not resist these. :) I have yet to start them and have since found out that they have a larger version on the market which would make more sense.

In terms of yield these would be next to useless. In terms of cute factor they get full points. LOL :)

http://www.iwantoneofthose.com/egglings/index.html
 
Further to herbs, what do you all think of this?

http://www.goldaskitchen.com/index.ihtml

This is one of my favorite online vendors. Saw this item recently and thought it'd be a boon during the winter months. I find the kits a bit pricey and don't like that you require these in order to use this grow system. It's product driven! :)
 
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