Cumin
Cumin is one of the world's most essential spices — a staple of Mexican, Indian, Middle Eastern, and North African cooking with a warm, earthy, slightly smoky flavor that's irreplaceable in curries, chili, tacos, hummus, and countless spice blends. Growing your own cumin delivers seeds with a freshness and intensity that pre-ground commercial cumin simply cannot match, and the delicate, feathery plants with their clusters of tiny white flowers are genuinely pretty in the herb garden.