I only have a small area (my deck primarily) to work with as the rest of the yard gets absolutely no sun. But last year I had a wonderful harvest of thyme, parsley, scallions, rosemary, and basil. That's not counting all the flowers in addition. I have an album on Photobucket taken of my deck garden about 1/3 of the way through the growing season. By fall I had probably 5x as many plants and there wasn't any room to be had anywhere. It was a really good year.

I'm a big fan of Tazo Tea, the "Calm" variety, but it's wicked expensive. I had already planned on adding chamomile to my plant list for this year, then I looked at the actual ingredients for the Tazo Calm: chamomile, blackberry leaves, lemongrass, rose petals, spearmint leaves, lemon balm leaf, hibiscus flowers, lavender, marigold. The hibiscus is the only thing I'm not keen on, I've never grown it before, but the rest I've either already got started from seed or will buy starter plants later on. So we'll see.

I had a simple Nesco Snackmaster dehydrator that finally croaked at the end of last year after many years of use. I'm honestly thinking about just getting the same thing. Space-wise it works for me and I like the flexibility of being able to choose how many trays I want to use.