so many herbs

[loulou]

help have just started a herb garden and i was wondering if you would let me no your favourite herb and why as i never new so many herbs exsisted
thanks

[TPeers]

Sage - useful in almost every dish, sweet as well as savoury. The purple kind is attractive as well as useful.

Sage and onion stuffing
shredded over roast veg
in Rice pudding

I could go on and on...............

In home made sausages
Any soup or stew...............

[loulou]

thanks i have just brought that one this morning ive been told its a super herb

[Hazel at the Hill]

Current fave is Basil, because it is so tasty in salads....but then parsley is too, and I put it in/on most savoury dishes I cook - so that's maybe top herb for me.

PS what can you do with marjoram? I have it in the 'herb garden' (hahaha!!) and don't know what I can use it in.

[Birdie Wife]

Rosemary is one of my favourites, you can chuck a couple of springs in with roasting potatoes and the smell when you take them out of the oven is divine!! you can even use the larger twigs as skewers for kebabs on the BBQ (haven't tried this myself, don't often get BBQ weather up here)! Bees love the flowers too.

[Mrs Dobby]

Oregano - brilliant for use in anything Italian, especially spag bol!

Coriander - deffo curry ingredient!

[muckdiva]

I love dill. Mixed into a sour cream dressing for cucumber it's the business. It doesn't like being transplanted, so sow in situ. Good luck with your herb bed.

[Earthbabe]

If you like dill but want something more permanent go for fennel - bronze for preference as it is a very pretty colour. Must haves in my herb patch - lavender (yes I cook with it), sage - a variegated one looks lovely if you only have room for one, thyme - lots, lovage, hyssop, rosemary, chives, coriander, mint in a pot, lemon balm in a pot, fennel, oregano or marjoram. Those are my main culinary herbs, some also get used for infusions and other things e.g. sage tea for a sore throat, hyssop for a chesty cough. I tend to grow basil indoors.

Other options - borage for its flowers and young leaves for salad. Salad burnet - eat young, rocket, sorrel.

[Snadger]

Got to be chives! Dead easy to grow, perennial, lovely chopped in mashed spud or to perk up salads. And on top of all that it makes a good edging and has pretty purple flowers!

[Earthbabe]

But to get the best crop remove the flowers.

[smallblueplanet]

Chervil very tasty and makes a great change from parsley. But no really my fave is basil cos I love pesto and all things mediterranean!

[Snadger]

But to get the best crop remove the flowers.

Never tried it, but you could probably eat the flowers?

[noidea]

I have a lovely recipe for chive flowers. They are fab.

I always muck up growing herbs, I think i get too fussy with then rather than leaving them be so have just got them all outside in the wind and rain and they look much happier!

Rosemary and basil are my favs.

C

[Alice]

I just couldn't be without parsley and if I could only have one other it would have to be coriander - please can I have my basil too - and my chives - and my oregano - and please just a little bit of thyme and .... ok enough requests there. Oh but please can I have my mint.

[TonyF]

All of them, that's the problem with culinary herbs, you have one and use it then you want to try others and then you want to grow them and then there are the 25 varieties of mint, half dozen basils etc etc .........