Plant seeds 12 millimetres deep in potting soil. They germinate in seven to 10 days. Give chives plenty of sun and they reward you with pretty blooms and tasty leaves all summer. To keep plants looking healthy, use scissors to cut leaves near the soil rather than at their tips, then snip the leaves into short pieces to add to eggs, dips and salads. Once chives bloom, cut the plants back a section at a time to encourage new growth.
Kids can dry the chive blossoms for simple floral arrangements.
Then strain the vinegar through cheesecloth, pour into a pretty bottle and use in cooking and homemade salad dressing. Believed by ancient Greeks to give strength and fortitude, thyme is a pungent perennial, a member of the mint family. During Medieval times, the herb represented bravery, and aristocratic women embroidered pictures of it on scarves for their knights. It's a shrubby perennial that grows 15 to 30 centimetres tall with pale grey-green leaves and delicate mauve flowers. To sow, cover seed with three centimetres of fine soil, well pressed down.