Plant a windowsill herb garden for a delicious taste of summer in the depths of winter without even having to step outside your back door.
As the gardening year slows it's hard to give up luxuries like chopping generous handfuls of fresh herbs straight into your cooking. But indoor herb gardens created this month keep you in freshly-picked flavour all winter long. You can pick some herbs, such as rosemary and sage, all year round from the garden. But herbs like mint and marjoram which die down outdoors in winter stay green if you bring them indoors.
Keep your herbs on the dry side, but keep air humidity high by sitting them on a tray of pebbles topped up with water. Given good conditions, you should be able to keep picking sparingly but steadily right through till spring.
