Today is absolutely ghastly. We’ve received about 20mm of rain today and it has just stopped briefly now…so I made a dash outside to rescue these little herbs which are now going to stay inside on my kitchen window sill:
- Yates Dill
- Yates Thyme
- Yates Oregano
Centre stage is dill. Dill is my absolute favourite herb. We have it with fish, eggs, potatoes…Swedish dishes and Greek dishes mainly. I lived in Sweden and to me, dill is the taste of Sweden. Every time I eat it, I feel like I’m out in the archipelago on a boat during midsummer or I’m in a big forest picking berries and mushrooms. It is a fantastic herb and I think it is quite under-rated in NZ.
Then we have thyme and oregano. I just adore the aroma of these two herbs and I like to throw fresh oregano in particular into a lot of Greek salads. We have a pizza oven, so I like to have thyme and oregano at my finger tips when I’m making a pizza sauce. Nothing like the fresh stuff! I grew all of these from seed under an old window and they are a tad bigger than the seeds I planted out directly in the garden.
Despite growing these herbs out in the garden too, I do like to have these at hand, as they’re all a little tricky to cut in the dark with a torch sometimes…
Well, I do hope that we get some sunshine tomorrow as I have a lot of planting to do!
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