Plant a Kitchen Herb Garden

by Wendy Mallins

1-2 Hour

Easy

Make the most of summer and plant up a kitchen herb garden that’ll keep you supplied with fresh herbs for cooking all throughout summer. You don’t need a great deal of space, just a small sunny corner a few plant containers and some herb plants to start you off. You can even create a herb garden on a tiny balcony or back yard.

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Choose a good selection of containers - colourful galvanised buckets work well.

Good herbs to plant

- Flat leaf parsley – a lovely all round herb, easy to grow and you can use it scattered over Italian pasta dishes, chopped up finely over buttery new potatoes, scattered over grilled fish with a squeeze of lemon.

- Oregano – super easy to grow and quickly takes over! Lovely added to tomato sauces for pasta or pizza, delicious scattered onto cheese on toast or stirred into casseroles.

- Thyme – another easy herb to grow. Delicious with roast chicken or fish. Nice used to flavour risotto or oven baked tomatoes.

- Mint – practically a weed – it grows like wildfire! Delicious used in Greek style dishes like tzatziki, perfect with lamb, scattered over buttery new potatoes or used to flavour gin cocktails or strawberry cordial.

- Basil – a little trickier to grow and needs lots of sun. Beautiful alongside fresh tomatoes or used to make pesto.

- Coriander - likes lots of sun and quickly goes to seed so keep using up and scattering new seeds every week. Delicious served sprinkled over curries, chopped and added to salad or used with yogurt to marinate meat.

- Chives – super easy to grow and tasty snipped into salad, on boiled eggs, omelettes or salmon and scattered over buttery boiled new potatoes.

Make up some fab homemade herb plant markers - the kids love to help with these

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Nit1697200 on Jun 17, 2015
Love it!! Great idea.

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- Wendy Mallins on Jun 18, 2015
  @Nitrolove81 thanks :)
  
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Diane Rodriguez on Jun 24, 2015
I have tried planting mint, always dies

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- Wendy Mallins on Jun 25, 2015
  @Diane Rodriguez gosh really Diane! It grows like weeds here end up having to dig it up to stop it taking over - maybe mint is more suited to wet and cold English weather :))
  
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- Misty on Jun 25, 2015
  @Diane Rodriguez I grow mint in New Mexico. Try a container, it grows like a weed.
  
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