My Favorite Herbs for Cooking + Weekend Projects

Hi everyone! Hope you enjoyed the weekend. I had my hands in a bunch of different things, including my annual planting of herbs in pots. I’ve been doing this for years now and I love having all my favorite herbs for cooking right at my fingertips.

It also saves a ton of money over the course of the late spring, summer, and early fall. The potting soil and herbs cost me around $20, which I could spend a week buying small little containers of herbs at the grocery store.

My favorite herbs for cooking, and ones that also tend to grow really well in pots, are chives, flat leaf parsley, rosemary, basil, mint, thyme, dill, tarragon, and cilantro.

Try planting your own this summer if you want to cook along with me and save yourself some money. All you need is some good potting soil, pots, and the herbs. I water them every day or every other day in the summer and that’s about it. Believe me…if I can grow these, you can grow these!

The chives come back on their own every year. I planted the parsley and rosemary in small pots on their own this year because I usually try to bring these two inside in the cold months and keep them going in a sunny window. The mint and basil are together in a large pot because they both tend to grow big and tall.

I also got some work done on a few other projects this weekend. Here are a few peeks.

A new coffee table for our screened porch, made almost entirely with things I had lying around:

A lacquered wooden tray made from scrap materials:

Spring cleaning and sprucing of the screened porch:

Can’t wait to show you full details on all of these soon!