It isn’t too late to plant an herb garden with your kids this summer. Most herbs are easy to plant and grow like weeds. Earlier this summer, Benjamin and I planted basil, parsley, mint, rosemary, chives, cilantro and dill (ok, cilantro and dill were a bust – they too quickly go to seed…but the others are fabulous). I feel kind of like the Barefoot Contessa going out into my yard to clip fresh herbs for dinner. This weekend, I made pesto, a chimichurri sauce for steak and used some chives in an omelette and some mint for cocktails.

If you have a yard, just find a patch of dirt that gets sun and buy some small herb plants from a local nursery or garden store. If you are an apartment dweller, a medium sized planter on a sunny windowsill will also do the trick. You don’t need many plants because most of these (especially mint which is a perennial and should come back next year) grow quickly and spread. You can plant more than one herb in the same planter.

Benjamin loves to fill up a watering can and go out and water the herbs (and snack on some of the leaves). At GIFT HERO we sell an adorable Kid’s Watering Can Kit from ToySmith that makes a great gift for boys and girls ages 5 and up. It comes with a colorful and durable watering can plus a rake, a trowel, a shovel and gardening gloves.

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