Dill gives bland foods a bunch of flavour: home pickled veggies, pan-fried fish, potato salad. The herb is a fairly forgiving plant once it gets out of the seedling phase. You want to place dill in full sunlight. Ideally, the soil should be somewhere in the 5.5-6.5 ph range, moist and well-drained. Dill plants can […]
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Growing Chives in Canada
Chives are one of those herbs that springs up early and bounces back after each cutting. They can be substituted for garlic and onions (in marinades, roasted veggies, salad dressings, sour cream dip or cream cheese/butter spreads), but I find they’re mostly useful for freshly flavouring mashed and baked potatoes. Chives need little to no […]
Summertime Drinks: A Canadian Mint Julep
Lemon balm
Lemon balm is a great starter herb since it’s unkillable, much like mint. I’d recommend planting it in less productive parts of your land (or in pots) and away from any other plants that might get crowded out. If the lemon balm spreads, just harvest it right away in the unwanted areas. The lemon balm […]