Herb garden with basil, mint, thyme, dill, chives, and parsley

The mini garden with its enviable Downtown skyline view has mint, basil, chives, onions, dill, lemon sage, oregano, majoram, three varieties of tomatoes, lavender and rosemary. (Source: http://blogdowntown.com/2009/06/4446-giving-urban-gardening-a-try-at-the-bartlett )

Basil, chives, and some house plants...

Fairview Church Garden was on the Kansas City Urban Farms and Gardens tour for 2009, July 28! We are a community vegetable garden(using organic practices), Youth Garden 50 x 50, supported by the Missouri Extension office and Missouri Master gardeners, some raised bed areas with flowers and vegetables, 4 plots for local gardeners, roughly 20 x 20 with main garden about 340 x 40, growing tomatoes, mostly hierlooms, (cherokee purple, amana orange, carolina gold). We also have Peppers(bells, jalapenos, anahiems, cherrys), Eggplant, Kale, Swiss Chard, Corn, Potatoes(purples, pontiac, klondike), Greenbeans, Squash, Cucumblers, Okra(burgandy), Kohlrabi, Broccoli, Cabbage, Sweet Potatoes, Beets, Onions, and Garlic. Whewwww.... we have a few herbs...Dill, Chives, Parsley, Basil(green, christmas, red) Horseradish, Mint(chocolate and apple), lastly Borage. Flowers such as marigolds, zinnias, petunias, and nasturtium.

Since we moved here in 1991, we have grown a full range of vegetables including potatoes, lettuce, radish, tomatoes, beans, peas, onions, and many herbs. We have mint, oregano, catnip, chives, rosemary, dill, thyme, and cilantro.

We bought a house in 2007. At the front was a porch that needed re-building, a narrow strip of earth enclosed by a cement wall that had presumably once been a garden, a cement walk, and grass. It was boring and not very "green". We re-built the porch with wide welcoming steps using Trex composite lumber and a railing of salvaged spindles. We removed all the concrete and grass. Instead, we laid a curved flagstone path, which allows drainage. We turned the remaining space into a garden, planted with mostly perennials, and centred around a semi-dwarf cherry tree we planted in memory of my father. The yard is about 17 x 23 feet, and it faces east, so gets early morning sun on all of it. But as the day continues the shadow moves from the house outward, so about half is a shade garden and the rest more sunny. All plants are easy-care, and we've incorporated a little companion planting (chives and alium near a rose bush, etc.), focused on native and drought-tolerant species, included wildlife friendly varieties, and mixed in a few edibles amongst the ornamentals. Compost enriches the soil, and leaves and natural wood chips are used as mulch in some areas. We've tweaked it a little since the initial planting in the spring of 2008, moving and adding a few things. But generally the garden is thriving, and we've received many positive comments about it. In it's first year, we even entered it in the "David Suzuki Digs My Garden" contest, and won an honourable mention!

New to gardening and just completed building 7 raised beds from scratch on our 1/4 acre flat section! 4 planned for veges, and herbs and soft fruit in the other 3. The majority of my gardening know-how has come from books/internet and as a child, watching my mother slaving in her garden every weekend (I thought it has to be more enjoyable than that looked!). Just planted out peas and corn seedlings with broccoli, cauli and lettuce germinating. Planted out parsley, oregano, thyme (vulgaris and lemon), chives and rosemary with others germinating. Young blackberry plant is the first in the soft fruit bed with others to come. Also have an existing hand dug plot with tomatoes and celery growing and the last of my broccoli and lettuce going to seed. Potatoes and onions growing in tyres at the moment but will grow potatoes in bags from now on and onions in the new beds. We also have an enormous walnut tree, plum, pear, peach, 3 apples and 2 lemons.

This is a collection of herb and spice plants that we grow for cooking purposes and beyond

2008 was first attempt at gardening here. 2009 was exciting to see what returned in the perennial beds. Sun exposure ranges from full to no sun. Definitely a work in progress :)

Excited for the coming Spring! Blooms of crocus, crunchy sweet peas and dirt under my fingernails!

perrenials, wildflowers, herbs, berries

Gardening is a whole new game when you get to growing food! I dream of homesteading someday, but at the moment find that I'm almost completely out of my depth with just one raised bed and some potted tomatoes on the deck.

I have a backyard raspberry, grape, mint soil garden; a tomato, pepper, bean, cucumber container garden; an herb flower box garden; a perennial garden and a winter indoor herb, tomato, pepper potting mix/hydroponic/aeroponic garden

Chives!

I'm growing dill, chives, mint, basil, and parsley in my Aerogarden

Bounty for the week - too much parsley, enough mint for a mojito, plenty of basil for my caprese salads, and some dill and chives

Various herbs were planted by the end of our fourth week and a circular path mapped out. The local shops donated Lavenders which helped balance our Nasturtiums, Thyme, Chives, Strawberries, Feverfew and various other oddments from our own gardens.

Garlic chives in bloom

Dundurn Castle heirloom garden chives