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The herbs we chose to plant this year are mostly the basics: chives, oregano, sage, peppermint, rosemary, and basil. We did choose a few adventurous ones too. They are: chocolate mint, pineapple mint, Greek oregano, and cilantro. You may be thinking "Did she say mint like three times? I hope she knows what she is in for!" Yes, we have been forewarned. It is a highly invasive plant. That is o.k. I put each kind in a big area and I hope they spread and everything fills in nicely. I love peppermint tea and would like to try drying the leaves and making my own. Who knows, maybe one day it will be for sale here on localharvest.org. We will see. I'll keep you posted. Pictured below is, first, the pineapple mint and then the oregano. Regular and Greek. The Greek oregano has a purple color to it's leaves.

Last summer my husband and I started an herb garden, well I should say we started making a place to put herbs, because we didn't plant many herbs, and what we did plant died in that drought I was talking about. We decided last year that our herb garden should be in the center of our vegetable garden, as the focal point, and it could act as a resting spot, a place to sit and take a break from weeding.We carved out a circle bed with a walking path around it, and put decorative rocks in the center. Someday we will have a nice sculpture or something on the rocks, right now it's just bare. The original plan was a mulch path, but we decided to go with a grass path and use plastic edging to keep it from spreading to our veggies. It is really starting to take shape. We are just missing a nice bench to put in back of the circle path and in front of the sunflowers that are growing so nicely. Oh yeah and the garden art sculpture. Oh yeah, and herbs :)

I posted a picture below. I will talk about the herbs I planted in another entry.