What kind of herbs do you grow in your garden?

You are quite a pro as herbs go, my friend! This year I have four dandedion plants in the four sides of my veggetable raised bed. They are beautiful and I´m going to experiment with them as I heard they were edible.

absolutely edible. and very good for you too. the younger leaves are great in salad. peppery and a bit bitter/sour in a pleasant way. not entirely dissimilar to rocket I suppose. the roots can also be used to make a sort of coffee substitute but I've not tried this. dandelion leaves make quite a nice tea, too. nettles also, are edible, and a great alternative to spinach. again, very very good for you. one of my books says that if dandelions didn't grow so easily, they'd be a very highly prized plant, with their beautiful bright flowers, pretty seed heads and health benefits. it's only their resiliance that causes them to be called a weed.

These are wonderful news! Thank you. Today I´m invited to lunch at my daughter´s house who looked at my 4 dandelion plants with a bit of pity last time. Now it will be my first coversation with her at lunch. Last year she had beautiful dandelion plants i a big pot at her garden but did not use them for eating purposes.

I ended up pulling 165 green tomatoes off those 2 plants & made green tomato catsup & pickled some of them. Just think if they had all gotten ripe how happy i would have been. I hope yours do well. hugs.

Any luck with your lonely tomato, Jo? Here the tomato plants are growing but some unknown beasts are eating the sweet pepper seedilings. Claudia bought big seedlings and gave me 4 plants which I put in pots so that I could take better care of them.

Don´t be a baby! You had a crop! My sweet pepper seedlings are being eaten by invisible beasts. The tomatoes are doing fine up to now and so are the radishes and arugule. Someone had a feast on my only one cucumber plant so now I planted more seeds on containers. The life of a farmer is difficult, even if the farm is a few square feet HUG!!!

Thanks for reminding me, I too planted garlic a couple of months ago...I should check on them to see if the are ready or not.

Eat the leaves: they are out of this world. I don´t know why they don´t sell them at the markets.

I planted out the garlic cloves that were growing and now I´m eating the most exquisite garlic greens you can imagine. I don´t know if they´ll grow to real garlic plants with a lot of cloves underground. But before I just threw them away and now they are a good addition for sdalads and omelettes.

My basil is probably the ones who are doing best in my garden right now... I usually put it on my pizza when I make it. Pesto sauce is good too but I don't know if my basil bush has enough yet.

I plant basil every year but they don´t always come out as I want them to. But in my country basil is very cheaop when in season so I use my basil to put a little on different foods and buy big basil plants to make pesto for the whole year.

I can´t plant anything in large scale eitler. I was just telling a friend that an invisible garden beast had eaten my one cucumber plant. I just planted 5 more seeds in containers to see if one survives. I recycle all kinds of containers for plants. Milk cartons with a hole made at the bottom are wonderful. For me, gardening is also a way of helping Mother Earth.

WOW that is a great idea marguicha.. and gardening is a really good way of helping our mother earth... if every one of us do such little things then earth will definitely be a better place to live on in future as well... keep up the good work..

I have some hierbabuena on a pot because if they grow in the soil they take up all the space. I could not live without orégano. I use it frsh and dry my own.

Hiya margi, Love the smell of hierbabuena it´s so nice and fresh smelling too. Like I said I can´t grow anything here. I did want to plant some Pink Roses the briar bush type but have changed my mind for the moment also. Oregano is very nice too but they don´t like the smell or taste of it.

I love roses but not so much rosebushes. I prefer trees and shrubs that have leaves all year around. This can happen in my country due to a mild climate.

My garden is not that big but I hope that with raised beds at least I´ll take care of some of the earth bugs. This gardening with just some seeds is like playing dolls but is gratifying. Yesterday I added 1 radish (mine) and a few arugules(also mine) to some lettuce salad and it made all the difference.