How to make your homegrown organic produce taste even better?! With the help of some herbs! With so many to choose from with their own unique flavours & distinct fragrance, herbs are a fun thing to grow.

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Not only do they taste amazing, but they can also be used for natural remedies, if that isn't enough they will attract more pollinators to your patch. Let's check out which herbs Ed has chosen to grow this year!

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Most herbs don't take up too much room and can be harvested in a cut-and-come-again manner, pop them anywhere you like in your patch. Try an easy herb like Chives! They have beautiful tasty flowers as well as tasty greens. However, some plants can grow wild & bushy, staying in the ground over winter. You'll need to be careful to choose the placement and spacing for plants such as Sage & Rosemary. 

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- Mint & Oregano are versatile & fast-growing. They're perfect for new growers but they are also creepers, sending roots and shoots everywhere. Keep them in a pot to stop them from spreading on your patch

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- Here you'll see Ed is growing several varieties of Thyme. This herb has a gorgeous scent and you can find many varieties such as lemon, purple or silver. It's delicious fresh scattered on sweet & savoury food and by the end of the season you can cut it back, and dry it out for your favourite winter dishes

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- Dill is another fab herb to add to your patch with umbellifer flowers, beautiful in bouquets! Try fresh & the seeds in pickles like Kate here: https://youtu.be/4dzyBwlWvGM. 

Dill grows a bit taller than the other herbs which is really great for pollinators!

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- Basil is a fantastic herb for pesto, soups & curries and doesn't always need a hot climate to grow, try companion planting with your tomatoes. Ed shows us his Thai Basil and how it’s now going to seed, this is obvious from the flowers. Remove these to keep growing it's leaves nice and bushy.