Kenny and I have been cooking with a lot of herbs lately (in large part because we love Jerry Traunfeld’s The Herbal Kitchen). This means we’ve been making quite a few trips across the street to QFC for herbs from the produce department, and it’s pretty frustrating to spend three bucks on a 1-ounce container of tarragon when you can get a whole plant for about the same amount.
So this weekend, instead of hitting up the QFC, we took a trip down to our local City People’s Garden Store and hooked ourselves up with a few little window sill-sized ceramic pots, and a couple of starter herb plants: tarragon and Italian parsley. We’re going to see how we do with these and hopefully branch out to some other favorites, like rosemary, chives, cilantro, and maybe even lemon verbena. Unfortunately it was too late in the season to get mint, which we also love. We put the plants on the sill of one of our westward-facing windows. We’re keeping our fingers crossed that they’ll actually be able to grow now that the gloomy fall days are upon us, given that most herbs are supposed to be sun-lovers.
My dad is well-known for his green thumb. Hopefully it runs in the family… (if I fail, I will be sure to point out that my father has a huge advantage, living in Southern California and not Seattle).
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