Will head to the library to see what is on the shelves.
Parsly & Chives are pretty much the norm (easy) for herbs that I do... we have garlic chives and lemon chives come up every year. I also plant nosturmas (flower) which is edible - blooms and leaves.. kinda a light spicy/lemony flavor and bachelor buttons which are edible too. We have dill growing wild all over the place so I don't plant that. I would like to try the basil, rosemary, and itallian herbs. Really haven't gone past that yet. Would love to have a nice bed of lavender (for sachets).
Our veggie garden usually consists of 3-4 types of tomatoes, swiss chard, spinich, carrots, 2-3 types of squash, probably beets this year, brocolli, cabbage (green & red), lettuce mixture, 4-5 types of peppers and jalapeno peppers (usually about 6-8 plants), kolhrabi, green & yellow beans, sugar snap peas, cucumbers and radishes.
The other plot is full of sunflowers, pumpkin and corn.
The third plot if full of onions with a divider because the straberries are on the other side because the soil there is pretty sandy.
Then we have about a 35 ft double row of asparagus that we planted 4 years ago that should really produce well this year + 2 other areas of it growing wild in the yard.
We also have 2 large patches of red raspberries and a patch of black raspberries. 5 red current bushes and 6 gooseberry bushes which should produce really well this year too. Then beside that we have a "giant" patch of rhubarb.
3 apple trees and 2 plum trees. 2 of the apple trees produce the other trees probably have another 3 years before we can harvest anything from them. Cobalt's dad has a big mullberry tree that he doesn't do anything with and if we can get to them before the birds (good luck) we have those too.
We also work on the landscape with additional trees, plants & shrubs. The summer before last we made a "rock" garden near our deck with sand cherries, hostas, and other various plants... should look pretty nice this year because we don't have as many outside dogs.. grrrrrrrr (if you know what I mean).
We love living in the country!!!!!!