have an herb garden

I planted some chive seeds and I still have some lavender seeds that I need to plant … The sunflower seeds are sprouting, too.

That I won’t check this one off, because there is a perfectly decent cache of herbs growing on the porch right now, including a bunch of weird mints (I compulsively buy weird mints ;)), some basil, some small scallions, and those tiny Asian hot peppers. But I think I was thinking of more variety, plus the plants out there really don’t feel like my garden, even if I’m the one who picks the plants. Brian waters them and clips them, after all, even if I comment on when it’s needed. It just feels like cheating to consider it my minigarden when I’m not doing most of the caretaking. ;)

I found a strange, hand-labelled plant at the health food store today. When I got home, I googled it, and it turned out to be Moujean tea, a Caribbean plant that tastes and smells of vanilla. Score! This seems like it would do well here in Florida, and I bought it for the smell anyway, the fact that I’ve never seen it before, and because it had “tea” written on the label. ;)

Yet another entertaining and obscure addition to the growing herb patio garden!