Grow your own herbs
The first trees to awake are the filbert and cobnuts, producing pollen filled catkins. Part of the hazel family of trees, they have tiny red flowers that are wind pollinated by the long catkin fronds that burst with a dust like explosion of pollen in the wind. The more trees you have in close proximity …
Lemon Balm is a great herb to have in the garden for two reasons. One is that just a few leaves of lemon balm make a refreshing herbal tea in minutes and the other is that once it’s planted it requires no other maintenance. In fact, most people would advise only growing lemon balm in …
There are two different types of savory that are commonly grown to use as a herb- Summer Savory (Satureia hortensis) and Winter Savory (Satureia montana). We have grown both types, but since Winter savory is a perennial it has a permanent place in our permaculture garden. Savory is a hardy sub-shrub, that doesn’t require much …
Herbs are brilliant in the summer months for adding fresh flavour to dishes, but many die back over the winter. A great way to preserve garden or foraged herbs for use during the colder months is to dry them. This allows you to make the most of your spring/summer glut of green foliage and saves you …
We started growing lovage last year and it has soon become one of our most frequently used herbs. We use it as a celery substitute, so the leaves are added to pasta sauces, stocks, stews, salads and soups frequently. The bonus of using lovage in this way, is that the herb has a much stronger …
Why grow chives? Chives are one of the easiest herbs to grow and their slight oniony flavour means that they go well in nearly every savory dish. We have several chive plants in our garden and spend the entire season (spring to autumn) adding them to stews, soups, salads, omelettes, sandwiches and stir fries. The …
Back in March 2019 we decided to start a food forest project in the front garden. It was a pretty easy decision to make. The front garden was mostly lawn, and we never really did much with it other than mow it, on what seemed liked too regular as basis. We’d sat down and planned …
