Facebook Twitter Pinterest Mendelson uses her garden table for storing seedlings. And so watering even my laughably tiny garden is a slow, but delicious-smelling, process. It is a chore, but I could not live without those whiffs of cool mint and spicy tomato leaves. What to grow when you can’t grow lemonsLemon balm is almost the perfect plant: fragrant, edible, adaptable, easy to grow. The scent is fabulous: a resinous sherbety zest, exactly as one might hope a lemon tree’s bark might taste.

Source: The Guardian September 17, 2016 09:56 UTC