If I had one wish, it would be that everyone grew their most used herbs. They take little room, and many are plant once and will always have them when wanted.
They make such a remarkable difference, like here is raw fresh picked oregano on top of my pizza. I'm willing to be bet most people will go their whole life knowing only dried oregano.
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Dill is my favorite. Unfortunately, it’s an annual. It’s easy to grow, though, so you can just keep a handful of the seeds in the fridge over the winter and replant the next spring. It does like to reseed itself and become a nuisance, but fresh dill is well worth that small problem.
Fresh thyme is 5 million times better than any dried thyme you’d ever get.
I keep a bunch of it hanging from a string and I just scrunch it onto the dish I’m using it in.
Thyme on a breakfast frittata is the bees knees.
Same with oregano. Fresh oregano on a pizza is unreal.
I grow sage for sausage, thanksgiving and making sage brown butter sauce for pumpkin ravioli
Plus herbs from the grocery store come in so much plastic! I try to garden based on what things I can’t buy in the store without plastic (prioritizing those things) and for best tasting things (like tomatoes from the grocery store taste like wet cardboard)
I have an easy herb dip: one part laughing cow (if that isn’t available, I’m not sure how to describe it as it’s a very creamy cheese but mild flavor), two parts Greek yogurt, and a few handfuls of whatever fresh herbs you want. Blend together and eat. It gets better as it sits and the herb flavor develops.
I think I’d go for world peace, but herbs are good too
so wholesome. and that’s my favorite! makes everything else taste better 🙂
While every year friends and family gush over the tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers, onions, and melons- truth be told: My garden is for the herbs. I interplanted lavender/thyme/oregano/tarragon/sage in between my trellised rows, and in my individual grow bags, I always grow cilantro/basil/dill/chamomile. Believe me, I have saved so much money with this, and anytime anyone needs a random herb, I got them! Plus all of these when they bloom are absolutely beneficial insect MAGNETS. Specifically the cilantro, oregano, basil and mint.
Herbs are always the first thing we plant when we move to a new house! They are such good value, because most of them are perennial, hardy and pest-resistant, and you only need to take a small amount when needed, and nobody wants to pay $5 for a bunch of oregano when you’ll only use 1/10th of it.
Sage, salad burnet, greek oregano, chives, and I think I’m up to 6 varieties of thyme, including citrodora and fragrantissima.
Those are the perennial ones.
Sadly French tarragon and rosemary are not hardy where I live and I have to treat them as annuals here. Thinking about growing Mexican tarragon next year…
This looks amazing!