Lemon Verbena Cupcakes

I love our school gardening club.  The garden is just the right size, the children are enthusiastic (they even like weeding!), and most of the stuff we grow is edible – perfect!  My favourite part of the garden is the three small raised beds where we grow vegetables.  Last year we 'grew the world' – each bed represented a different part of the world and we planted vegetables that are used in the cooking of North and South America, Europe and Asia.  This year we've gone with an Olympic theme and are planting the beds with a gold, silver and bronze vegetables and edible flowers – well roughly gold, silver and bronze, they're not colours that are widely represented in the vegetable world.  Continue...