The Garden of Eaten

I happened upon a flower and garden shop today, and I was very excited at what I found.

A very large variety of herbs. Flowers too, but I was just into the herbs today.

Last year I had bought a tomato plant in a hanging planter. The tomatoes grew from the bottom and the planter had some different herbs in it.

The tomatoes didn't do so well, but I was having fresh cut herbs in just about everything I ate.

What a difference fresh makes.

So I had it in my craw, that I was going to grow some more fresh herbs this year.

So I'm browsing through this shop and was amazed at all they had. I could have stayed there all day, but Abby was being a kid, and wanted to rush me out of there.

I didn't rush out too fast. I had to rub all the leaves and take in the aroma of just about every herb there. Yum! Lemon Verbena, pineapple something herb, peppermint, spearmint, basil, cilantro, tyme, oh my gosh, so many. And to know I can easily grow this stuff in my own back yard.

And I will! Some of it anyway.
I ended up buying, Hot & Spicy Oregano, Sage, Cilantro, and Sugar Bush Stevia.

The stevia I'm really excited about, because I'm hearing so much about it lately. It's like a sugar substitute. You can dry the leaves and crush them and use them as that. A sugar sub.
Or just tear a few leaves into tea, or bake in cookies or breads, or whatever you want sweetened.

I also bought a sweet yellow, and a sweet red pepper plant and 3 tomato plants. The pepper plants, because I fell in love with a dish that Miss CC had on her blog. Yum-mo!

So planting all this will be my weekend adventure. Not that this will take all weekend, but me sticking my nose in the aromas of it all, might.

Speaking of sticking noses...here's Abigail sticking her nose in to our crab apple tree. Another heavenly smell.
God is so good!