Our chamomile plants self-seeded from last year’s crop, and are already flowering. I made this chamomile and mint tisane by steeping 6 fresh chamomile flowers and 4 mint leaves in boiling water for about 2 minutes. Goes well with home-grown strawberries. Tastes even better when served in a posh cup.
Posts Tagged ‘herbs’
Afternoon tea
Posted in Growing our own food, tagged chamomile, herbs, mint, tea, tisane on October 21, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Our herb garden in Spring
Posted in Growing our own food, tagged chives, herbs, lavender, lemon thyme, marjoram, parsley, spring on October 20, 2010 | 2 Comments »
In early Spring 2009, we established our herb garden. A year on, some herbs have really thrived, while others have been less productive. We’ve had most success with our marjoram, lemon thyme, chives and flat-leaf parsley. All have grown vigorously and remained disease-free. We’ve only had one plant that didn’t make it — the French [...]
Heartsease
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged flowers, heartsease, herbs, tea on November 15, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Our heartsease plants have begun to flower. What is heartsease? THIS is heartsease: I wanted to grow heartsease in the herb garden to add some interest and colour. Not only that, but the flowers and leaves are edible so they fit with my self-imposed rule of only planting edible plants in the herb garden. Apparently [...]
A very early Christmas
Posted in Growing our own food, tagged carrots, christmas, cooking, herbs, silverbeet, spring onion on October 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
On Monday I cooked Christmas lunch for my team from work, as is the tradition. (Yes Christmas! The price to pay for having two of the team going on maternity leave late this year.) For the meal, the garden provided: masses of silverbeet carrots spring onions salad greens herbs, including mint and dill From this, [...]
Useful flowers and herbs
Posted in Growing our own food, tagged borage, chamomile, flowers, herbs, hyssop, pyrethrum on August 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
In a recent post, I shared a photo of my new garden bed, snug up behind the front fence. The strawberries that we received for free have gone in one half. I’ve also planted some flat leaf parsley and coriander, to serve kitchen needs. The remaining space is being devoted a mix of flowers and [...]
Sowing for Spring
Posted in Growing our own food, tagged herbs, sowing, spring, vegetables on August 17, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Last weekend we planted seeds for both our future herb garden, and our summer veggies. As you can probably gather from this pic, we have been collecting toilet rolls for several months to sow our seeds in. This way, we will be able to plant our seedlings and their protective toilet roll casing directly into [...]
