My Green Thumb

I started a herb garden this week! I always buy entirely too much of one herb, because I just need a bit for a certain recipe, and sure enough, the rest goes bad before I have a chance to use it again. Or sometimes, to avoid the brown produce, I don't buy any at all, even though the recipe calls for it. This crisis could be averted with a herb garden, because I could just simply walk out my back door, snip what I need and call it a day. So that's what happened this week. Plus, I just think it is really neat to grow your own herbs in your backyard.

 

 

I got a half gallon whiskey barrel and drilled holes in the bottom so the water would have a place to go. Then I filled the barrel with soil, about two and a half bags worth. I bought my herbs, and ta da! I bought basil, parsley, mint, and rosemary. I saved room for cilantro because I wasn't able to find it.

 

I also bought some popsicle sticks and labeled them with the different herbs so they could be differentiated. Although, I feel like these herbs are my children now, and I can easily tell them a part without the popsicle stick markers, but hey, they are cute.

 

 

 

 

Now all I need is watering can ,and some gloves and I am pretty much a Master Gardner.

 

 

 

Here's to keeping my herbs alive!