Herbs and the Garden

Happy Gardening!  How is your gardening going?  Have you planted yet?  We have ours planted; however, we keep thinking of a few more things we want to plant.

We also had a cold snap and luckily as far as we can tell our crops are still doing pretty good!

Now, today I wanted to talk herbs.  Herbs are by far my favorite thing to plant because I use them so much in my cooking.  I typically use different types like rosemary, cilantro, parsley, and dill weed nearly every day.  It pains me to buy them at the store when I know I could grow them myself.  So, I look forward to having them right outside my back door.

Now, I know many people grow them year round.  I have yet to figure out how to keep my lasting year round.  Move them in maybe?  How do you keep them growing year round?

This year, I have so many that I want to plant that my husband is planning to build me one large box to attach to our back deck.  This way I have them all right outside our door and can easily get to them.  Currently, we have 3 little planters that are screwed onto the railing on the deck for herbs.  I’m simply outgrowing those planters.

Do you have a favorite herb to grow?  I’d have to say mine is a toss up between dill weed which is my all time running favorite and rosemary which is coming in to be a close call with dill weed.  Don’t you love how I talk about my herbs as if they are in competition?

Yes, I know…it’s odd.

My questions for you, what’s your favorite herb?  Plus, how do you keep yours safe and growing year round?

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