Europeans, Western and Eastern, and even Russians, talk about their family kitchen gardens all the time. The term 'kitchen garden' was new to me, but some questioning revealed that a 'kitchen garden' is what I would call a 'vegetable garden' combined with an 'herb garden'. Stuff you can grow and then eat.
I planted a little herb garden in a plastic window box, in my North-facing window, and it is doing fine. Although it is the source of my infestation of fungus gnats ... harmless little friends that tickle when they attempt to take a tasty drink of water from what collects in the corners of my eyes while I am sleeping. I don't mind at all. I am just going to wipe my eyes off when I get up, and it's just as well something benefits from it.
This herb garden has, of course, parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme, and also basil and oregano. It is doing quite well, and I trim it down and use the clippings most every night, as a tasty herbal seasoning to whatever I am cooking for dinner.
Here is a photo of the window box herb garden ...
From left to right, that is oregano, thyme, sage, rosemary, big space, then parsley and basil.
The big space is for future additions. You can see a nice big blow-up of the photo if you click on it
So, there ends a nice family-oriented blog post.
Rich
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