Plant Weekend

Today we headed out to the local village of Bolsterstone for our yearly visit to their village hall "plant weekend". The fundraising event is a great way of getting our hands on some cheap plants. The idea was to buy some nice vegetables ready for planting into our many weed filled pots, which we did.

We got there early enough this year to have a wider choice and the herb and vegetable selection was really quite good. We started off by picking some herbs. I want to make my own mint sauce one day so I chose some "garden" mint. Laura then saw some "country cream" oregano and "compact" marjoram. We also decided on two young rhubarb plants, two well grown broad bean plants, two "hot" pepper plants and two "sweet" pepper plants. Don't forget the tray of marigolds. Pretty good for £11. Tomorrow the plan is to pot them up!

Did you know that all marjorams are oreganos, since the genus name for both is origanum, but not all oreganos are marjorams?