In today's Q&A, I'm going to answer the question I received about the flowers that you see on your herbs.

Are they edible?

And we're also going to talk a little bit about other flowers that you may have planted in your garden that could also be edible.

This is a concept that has become a lot more popular in recent years.

I think as we are starting to kind of

go beyond what we can get at the grocery store and experiment with different flavor combinations

that we have never thought of before. And so I think that's kind of where this question was

inspired from. In general, most flowers that occur on herbs are going to be

edible. You're eating the herb. You will be able to eat the flowers. What you may find that you

enjoy about the flowers of these herbs is that their flavor is a little bit more mild and a little bit

sweeter than the leaves are.

And some examples of some flowers you might want to pick and enjoy would be dill, fennel,

arugula, basil, chives, cilantro, and others. And basil in particular, you might be growing different kinds of basil.

You might be growing green basil or cinnamon basil or Thai basil. Those are options as well as they

start to flower. In general, you're just wanting to add them as a flavor supplement. And the

colors and the flowers in general are going to bring the appearance to life as well

and they just add a little bit more depth of flavor. I have to admit I haven't used flowers as

much as a lot of people do. I tend to keep them in my garden to feed the pollinators quite frankly.

But in the times that I have harvested the flowers to eat they have added that

mild flavor chives is one of those that I did more this year when my chives started to flower

in the early spring they're beautiful light purple flowers the ones that I have and I just

sprinkled them on my salad. And I almost had to be

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