Hotel herb garden
Here's a first look at the herb garden planted this weekend on the 7th-floor terrace of Baltimore's Harbor Court Hotel on Light street.
The 600-square-foot herb garden consists of over 403 plants and 26 different varieties of herbs, edible flowers and tomatoes.
The hotel's culinary team isays that in a few months, customers will be dining on on herbs and vegetables harvested just a few minutes earlier as well as cocktails made with the freshest mint.
Stay tuned here on Garden Variety to see what the garden looks like when it is in full flower!
Comments
Hmmm--I am all for locally grown herbs, but I wonder how the air quality is there with so much traffic in that area.
Could be the herbs are above the volcanic ash zone!--Susan
Posted by: Dahlink | April 19, 2010 5:56 PM
The herb garden is fantastic. With the weather being kind in the last few weeks, the herbs are really starting to grow. We already started the harvesting of some of the herbs for the daily use in the kitchen. The tomato plants are coming along as well, with two tomatoes already on the vines.
To answer the question, the herb garden is on the 7th floor, and althought there is a lot of traffic in the area, not much dust is created onto the 7th floor. Also we have different types of shrubs that help protect the garden from the occasional strong winds.
When the herbs come to the kitchen, they get washed thoroughly before we start we the cooking process.
I encourage everyone to come for lunch and/or dinner and then take a tour of the garden. Who knows, maybe you take some herbs with you home.
Chef, we need pictures!!!! -- Susan
Posted by: Chef Josean | June 12, 2010 7:42 PM