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  1. I began with Phyluss Saudys books when I discovered herbs in 1986. Still learning!

  2. I love using herbs when cooking, but also for their medicinal purpose for some of them. I have a little herb garden and also many dried herbs in jars in the kitchen!

  3. I'm super excited to get my herbs planted for the season! I have missed being able to go out on my deck and snip what I need for that night's kitchen creation. Unfortunately the only perennial herb that came back is the sage, not counting the chives of course that are in pots on the deck. The dill self seeded all over the beds, but everything else has to be planted fresh each year. Too bad.

  4. What a lovely post! I so enjoy growing and using fresh herbs. Years ago, my cousin and I visited Caprilands, an herb farm in Connecticut. The owner, Adelma Grenier Simmons led us on a tour, and then she gave us a lecture in her barn. She treated us to a tasting featuring her recipes. I will always remember that she said that her parents let her plant herbs and experiment. Thank you for sending me on a trip down Memory Lane. I just ordered the book that you mentioned as well as one of Adelma's.

  5. My family know that herbs are always welcome as Mother's Day presents. It is blissful to step outside and snip them fresh and I learned to love them much as you did, by joining a group and touring herb farms many years ago and reading about them. My father was old fashioned enough to still call them by the old way when I was a child, the H pronounced as in a man's name!

  6. After a winter of rain, my garden is happy and I am actually able to water. And simply sitting in my garden watching the flowers grow is becoming a common occurance.

  7. I would love to use fresh herbs in cooking but I find that when I do I am disappointed because I can't taste them! Maybe I just don't use enough. I particularly like Basil to put in a pasta dish. Never heard of lime basil but that sounds nice. I do love lavender, I think it is a herb, correct me if I am wrong Brenda. I have never cooked with it but love the color and smell. I have been using a lavender soap for as long as I can remember.

  8. Is Hilltop Herb Farm by any chance the one you went to? When I lived in Texas in the early 70's, I went there. They had a farm and small restaurant. They had a tour of their garden and then a lunch prepared with herbs and talked about the preparation. It was very intimate, and Madeline Hill did the tours herself. I just looked it up, and this is what it has grown into…
    https://artesianlakes.com/restaurant/

  9. Herbs can be grown indoors in pots or outdoors in pots or the ground, which makes them accessible to just about everyone. They are delightful to look at, smell, and eat. By the way, Brenda, a book that I got as a gift years ago is very interesting — A City Herbal, by Maida Silverman. It is described on the cover as a guide to the lore, legend and usefulness of 34 plants that grow wild in cities, suburbs and country places. It features plants that most people call weeds, that often grow in waste places and sidewalk cracks. These plants, such as dandelions and Queen Anne's Lace, have some use, maybe as a tea, a salad green or perhaps a poultice. There are only drawings of the plants, but they are very nicely done. I see that the book is available at amazon.com. It's wonderful that you can enjoy your love of herbs in the solitude of your peaceful patio garden.

  10. I enjoy growing herbs. I'm not much of a cook so really never use them. This year I added lime basil and chocolate mint. Can anyone give me suggestions on how to use them

  11. Good Morning Brenda! I like to plant herbs too. I plant them in pots that I can put on our small deck. That way I can enjoy them when I am sitting out there reading or doing some embroidery/quilting by hand. The fragrance
    is wonderful, plus it keeps some of the pesky little nats, etc at bay.

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