bye bye Cilantro

It's official...I've killed my Cilantro plants. The other herbs are doing fairly well but the Cilantro is no more and for that I am sad. I'll have to go to a plant nursery and buy a couple more plants...this time I'll baby them a bit more.

My Container Garden...

This is my front porch and these are some of my potted plants- I also have more potted herbs on the deck at the back of the house. One of my favorite containers is my Boat...it comes from Kennebunk Maine. Mixing herbs with flowers is also fun...I love to have some color mixed with the "green leafy herbs".

Herb Gardens

For me, using fresh herbs adds that extra bit of zing to the food that I make. Because we were um, rather confined in space at our last house I would buy my fresh herbs at my local grocery store. At $2.49 for one package of herbs, it was rather costly. I figured that since we're in a new house that has a large yard plus a deck and a patio...I had decided that I was going to have an Herb Garden.

I've seen at our local cooking store this groovy apparatus for starting herb gardens...the down side is that it's priced right around $100.00. I looked at this a couple of times and besides the price being a little hairy I realized that I'm not wanting to start my herb garden from seeds and wait months on end until I can reap the rewards. I want to go to a nursery and buy small plants and have a container garden. I have oodles of terracotta pots (yes they are in a box in our garage...somewhere). I figure that I can have some pots on the deck or the patio and be able to pluck leaves when I need them. Now at a whopping $2.47 per plant, I'm able to reap the rewards quite quickly and have them continue to grow, versus going bad in the refrigerator because I couldn't use all of the herbs in the package.

I'll keep this updated and let you know how it goes...I am excited about this project!