Our gardening lives to this point we haven't used fresh herbs in
our cooking since we don't always plan what we're eating in
advance and don't want them to go to waste if we don't use them
quickly enough. To deal with that I intend to start an Indoor
Herb Garden. We are also planning to have a new area for herbs
in our backyard garden.
Both fresh herbs and dried herbs have their place in cooking so
we plan to grow enough in our outdoor herb garden to dry for
those dishes that call for dried herbs. We will use our indoor
herb garden to have fresh herbs when we want them.
Cooking shows, especially the Food Network, get a lot of my
attention. I use a lot of herbs in my cooking but have never
used fresh herbs, so I know what herbs to use. It would be cool
to have a climate that would allow me to grow herbs year round
but instead I will just start my own indoor herb garden.
Chives
The first herb for my indoor herb garden and likely my favorite
has to be Chives. I love chives as does my wife and they go with
almost anything I cook. I like to put them in my soup just
before I am ready to eat it and you know how good they are in a
salad or on a baked potato with some sour cream. Mmmmm I can
taste them already and I haven't even planted them yet.
Basil
So many of the chefs I watch on the Food network have a thing
going with Basil so even though I have never had fresh Basil I
am going to be adding it to my herb gardens. I can't get enough
Italian cooking and I am sure that Basil is in about 87% of
their dishes.
Parsley
You can't cook at my house without Parsley so I would be
wondering what I forget if I started my indoor herb garden
without Parsley. Parsley is an herb that just goes into or on
top of so many great dishes that it would just be wrong to leave
it out of the herb garden.
Oregano
I have planned to add Oregano to our indoor herb garden because
it goes so well with poultry dishes. It one of those herbs that
I don't use all that much but I believe I will use a whole lot
more as fresh herbs.
Thyme
The last herb we will add to our indoor herb garden this year
will by Thyme. Because we eat at least two chicken dishes a week
I am sure we will go through a lot of Thyme and it will be a
treat to try fresh grown Thyme.
I am not exactly sure why I was afraid to start my own indoor
herb garden but now that I have taken the first step it doesn't
seem so scary. I think the fact that we will have fresh herbs at
our finger tips helped get over the fear of failure.
When we finally got around to starting an indoor herb garden it
was a pretty exciting step, finally we had taken our gardening
hobby to the next level.
Learn how to have your own indoor herb
garden.
