Herbs Easy To Grow

Fresh herbs taste wonderful, just picked from the pot. Here’s some easy grow herbs for you to try.

You can use the foliage, flowers and seeds of dill to flavour a lot of foods. Dill is quite often used for fish in particular. The leaves van be harvested and used as needed and the flowers can be used when they open. The seeds can be used when they ripen. Remember to keep some of the seeds on the plant so it can re-seed for the next year. Like most herbs, dill enjoys full sun and we drained soil.

These thin green plants have a lovely light onion flavour. Chives grow easily from seed or from blugs. The green leaves and the floors are edible. Easy to look after, just dead head any fading flowers to stop them going to seed. Chives Like full sun and well drained soil or compost.

Mint has a wide range of varieties ranging from peppermint, spearmint to more exotic flavours like strawberry and chocolate. Most varieties are easy to grow, in fact some of the them can grow very rapidly and can take over a bed. Mint is used in all types of recipes and teas etc. As mentioned be careful where you plant this herb, it can take over and be difficult to remove once established. Mint likes full or partial sun and likes a mosit well drained bed.

Parsley has a wide range of uses, including garnish and food flavouring. There are two leaf forms available, flat or curled leaf form. Use the flat leaf version for flavouring and use the curled for garnish. Full sun or part shade is ok for this plant, with well drained soil. Parsley also grows well in pots.

Fennel is one of our favourite herbs, it has a lovely taste and smell of anise. There are two main types of foliage green and bronze. The foliage has a fine light texture and can be used as a strucutral feature in flower and plant beds. In the kitchen we get a soft and nutty tasteof anise. Sometimes the herb can give a lovely anise smell when it rains, so may be nice near footpaths or wal ways. Like other herbs if you keep dead heading it can keep the growth fresh. However be careful the herbs does spread quickly and can take over beds easily. A full sun position and well drained soil.

Rosemary is a lovely herb to grow, it can be easily used for its culinary benefits and as an architectural plant in bed and borders. Some people use the rosemary bush in place of other small dividing bushes and hedges like box etc. This herb is an evergreen bushy plant that can be grown as mentioned in small bushes or can be trained into tree like standard trees. As mentioned this herb is evergreen however it is not really frost tollerant. Rosemary can be grown in pots or in the growned in sheltered positions. Full sunlight is best and medium most well drained soil is preferred.

This herb has a strong citrus falvour and smell with a suggestion of mint. Lemon balm is used for making tea, potpourri and other scented articles. As a plant it is easy to grow and can get out of control very easily so best grown in pots. Lemon balm likes full sun to partial shade and well drained soil.

If you have eaten a pizza you will have eaten this herb. Oregeano is widely used in mediterranean recipes. The different varieties offer different flavours the most intense being the Greek variety. To obtain the strongest falvours harvest the stems on a regular basis as the flavour declines after flowering. Full sun is appreciated and a dry to medium moist soil is preferred.

This herb has lots of different varieties and one of these varieties will probably meet your taste. Basil is a widely used ingredient in all types of dishes. Some of the flavours available are lemon, mint, chocolate and clove. Some varieties have attractive foliage and flowers and can be nice to add into plant beds. To keep the leaves flavourful and the to train the plant to be bushy, keep pinching out the stems on a regular basis. Basil likes full sun and a moist and well drained compost or soil.