Gift idea from the garden

Hello everyone,

Today I have a gardening tip for you. In the summer and late summer, I always harvest herbs from all over my garden. I use them to make fragrant herb salt . This makes a wonderful gift or something to enjoy yourself. It goes well with many dishes and tastes like summer. I took some photos just for you. Maybe you’d like to try making it yourself.

Best regards—Ina

1. Pick the herbs


2. Let the herbs dry in a dehydrator or in the open air


3. Finely crumble the crisp, dry herbs. Remove any thick stems.


4. Mix the crumbled herbs with coarse sea salt and mixed peppercorns (and chili, if desired)


5. Fill a herb grinder with the herb salt


5. Attach a label as a decorative touch if you’d like to give it as a gift.

That’s really a great idea—I can confirm that. My neighbor actually gave me the idea. She’s in the middle of filling some for gifts right now. She just didn’t add any pepper. I really like it in there.

I think this is a great idea—I’m sure I have a salt grinder lying around somewhere…

Until now, I’ve always mixed herbs with a little oil and frozen them for the fall, saving those individual butter packets from the pizza delivery service for that purpose.

By the way, I saw a post about drying herbs where the herbs were spread out flat on a plate and microwaved for a few seconds. I’m definitely going to try that sometime.

That sounds delicious—I can practically smell it. Thank you, Ina, for your idea and the great photos.

Have a wonderful weekend, everyone!

That sounds delicious. So many herbs are blooming here right now, and everything smells so wonderful when you run your hands over them or even just brush lightly against them as you walk by. I’m going to try air-drying them sometime.

Mmm, that sounds wonderful! Unfortunately, my garden doesn’t have much of a selection of herbs right now—I had to clear out the herb spiral first, since some plants were taking over everything…

I’m glad you like my idea and find it inspiring. We always want to preserve a little something from summer—and in this case, it works really well. I wish all readers of this thread a wonderful weekend.

Warm regards, Ina