Herb for the Urban Gardener™

Create delicious gourmet meals with fresh herbs! Chives have a delicate onion flavor. Mix chopped leaves with cream cheese or butter or use in salads. Large rose-purple blooms are decorative in the garden and attract butterflies and bees. They are a pretty additions to fresh salads, can be steeped in vinegar for rose-colored chive vinegar or dried for winter bouquets. Chives are high in vitamins C & A.

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Hardy perennial herb with mild onion taste. Leaves are a key culinary herb, while the attractive globe-shaped blooms can be used as an edible garnish. Great perennial for the garden. Use to flavor stews, salads or soups....

Delicious, tangy dill is great for home pickling and canning. It also makes a delicious herb butter or seasoning for soups, salads and fish. Easy to grow, dill provides both seeds and fresh or dried greens to flavor many foods. A must for making pickles! Dill is an annual and may self-seed in the garden but it is rarely a problem since it needs more moisture than other members of the Umbelliferae family like fennel....

Very popular, attractive herb with exceptionally flavorful leaves. French Tarragon complements chicken and fish with its fine, subtle, anise flavor and makes an outstanding vinegar for salads. The name dracunculus, little dragon, refers to the curling and coiling habit of the roots. It is not be confused with Russian tarragon, often misrepresented as French--Russian tarragon lacks flavor and also can become invasive...