I love tabouli! Also wheatberry salad. But I don't make my own. The local supermarket does a great one. We are very big on steak sliced thin over greens and whatever veggies we want to add. My husband has taken over the kitchen. He makes a mean fish salad and chicken salad. He also marinates the steak in Bourbon and maple syrup.
I have grown herbs for years. Chives - parsley - basil - tarragon are all basic for cooking. I get all of mine as plants from the nursery rather than doing seeds. Chives will re-seed themselves and come up year after year. Parsley is weird. It is a bi-annual. It will seed itself but come up the second year. I now have a flourishing crop around the tub I planted it in two years ago. Basil is an annual. Tarragon will be a perennial under the right circumstances. Mint is great. It comes in lots of different forms and does nned space. Rosemary can be a pain. It will winter over under the right conditions. It is best grown in a pot although I know someone who has a huge rosemary bush.
My advice - find a local and ask what grows best in your part of Wales.
Do try nasturtiums. Bennett will love them. The seeds are BIG. They sprout in about a week. But it takes awhile for them to flower. You can use the leaves in salad. Some say you can eat the flowers too but I never have.
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We are very big on steak sliced thin over greens and whatever veggies we want to add. My husband has taken over the kitchen. He makes a mean fish salad and chicken salad. He also marinates the steak in Bourbon and maple syrup.
I have grown herbs for years. Chives - parsley - basil - tarragon are all basic for cooking. I get all of mine as plants from the nursery rather than doing seeds.
Chives will re-seed themselves and come up year after year.
Parsley is weird. It is a bi-annual. It will seed itself but come up the second year. I now have a flourishing crop around the tub I planted it in two years ago.
Basil is an annual.
Tarragon will be a perennial under the right circumstances.
Mint is great. It comes in lots of different forms and does nned space.
Rosemary can be a pain. It will winter over under the right conditions. It is best grown in a pot although I know someone who has a huge rosemary bush.
My advice - find a local and ask what grows best in your part of Wales.
Do try nasturtiums. Bennett will love them. The seeds are BIG. They sprout in about a week. But it takes awhile for them to flower. You can use the leaves in salad. Some say you can eat the flowers too but I never have.
Happy Gardening!