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How to Grow Herbs? A tea break tutorial with me, Alan Titchmarsh.

I love herbs. They're all over the place in our garden. I mean they're star players in the kitchen and in the garden. They're beautiful, for the most part. They're fragrant, always, tasty and healthy and they're ultra versatile. The Olympic decathlete of the plant world, if you like.

Think Jessica Ennis or Daly Thompson, but younger, and with leaves.

Herbs are essential to so many recipes.

They simply make the dish.

I mean, think a potato salad without chives.

It's just potatoes in mayonnaise, isn't it?

Fish pie without that glorious garnish of parsley. Fish and mash then, isn't it? Roast lamb

or pims without mint and roast lamb without rosemary. You get me drift. I mean herbs, they're not

merely a garnish, but the accents that make food sing, there are every bit as much of the flavour as the main dish itself.

In the garden, you can see it can't really in your mind's eye, that purple haze of lavender.

And it just hums with bees on a sunny afternoon. What a sight to behold. And lavender's also a smell to savour as you brush past it

on the edge of the path. I'm always amused the fact that the leaves smell to me like those

mentholptus sweets, not like lavender at all. But pyramids of Loras Nabilis, the victor's laurel that

they used to put round the heads of heroes in roman times glossily bay tree

their features in my garden at home too i've got so much toopia it takes been blooming hours to cut the

stuff but it's worth it and at least when you're pruning bay you can eat your flavor with the trimmings

and you know i've got enough leaves of bay to make

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