HERBS

 

                       Basil                                                  Dill

 

The joy of growing herbs is a very satisfying hobby and besides that you get some delicious flavors in your cooking.   I grow my herbs on the back deck which is just off the kitchen so they are very handy to pick fresh when needed.    Just to mention a few that I grow; basil, dill, cilantro, sage, tarragon, thyme, rosemary and  chives. There are more but these are the ones we use most frequently. We use the fresh herbs in our daily salads.  Yum, Yum!

This is the basil I cut a few weeks ago. I hung it from the mantle in the breakfast room to dry.  It was so pretty tied up and left to dry and smelled delicious too. 



I let the dill and cilantro dry on the plants and then cut the dry stems off to remove the seeds. 

                                     All nice and put in jars for lots of winter meals, especially soups.

 

I will put some of the seeds away for next years plantings. Seeds are the most fascinating things in the world to me.  It always amazes me how they come to life with just a little soil and water after patiently sitting in a package all year waiting for someone to plant them.  The life in the seeds has to come from the hand of God.