If you have a sunny windowsill, tender herbs are really easy to grow. You can find pretty cheap kits (posts, seeds, compost) in garden centres and places like Wilkos. o just buy the seeds, some compost and reuse containers with drainage holes.
You can also grow them from cuttings:
If you have a garden, you are lucky enough to be able to grow woodier herbs like rosemary and bay.. Beware, they get huge so you need to cut them regularly. Rosemary needs lots of sun but bay copes well with some shade.
Mint is super easy to grow outside. There are loads of varieties and it's great to have your own mint tea. Do make sure that you grow it in a container though as it has a habit of taking over everything - mint sends of little runners that burrow down and then pop up all over the place. It took me 2 years to tame a rogue mint plant in my garden!
If you feel like getting adventurous with your herb growing, I totally recommend Herbal Haven as a supplier - they are online as well as at various London Farmers' Markets. it's quite fun to go to see them and get advice about where to plant/how to care for herbs you've never heard of before!!
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