Growing Herbs

How to Design with Colorful Herbs

By Mackeybooks

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Plant herbs for their great looks and for making your food better tasting and healthier. Herbs are easy to grow. Their purple, gold, silver, or green foliage will make your container gardens and home landscaping more rewarding... more »

How to Grow a Marsh Mallow Plant

By jpwhickson

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Marsh mallow plants or Althaea Officinalis, grow wild in marshy areas near the coast. It is a hardy perennial that has long been admired for its soft velvety leaves and pale pink flowers that appear midsummer to early autumn. The plant contains a ... more »

How to Grow Anise

By eHow Home & Garden Editor

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Anise is an herb that is used in salads, baking recipes and to flavor oils and liqueurs. As a medicinal herb, it is known to treat stomach aches. It tends to grow wild and can produce a large number of flowers. The ideal time to grow anise is in ... more »

How to Grow Catnip

By eHow Home & Garden Editor

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Catnip belongs to the mint family. The leaves contain a lemon-mint scent. These perennial plants produce a cluster of small white to blue fragrant flowers that self-seed. The plant attracts butterflies and bees. Catnip requires hardly any ... more »

How to Grow French Fine Herbs Indoors

By jpwhickson

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If your appetite for French food using “fine herbs” dies a little every time you price the cost of fresh herbs, then you should think about raising a French fine herb garden indoors. The “fine herbs” are used in most French cooking and don’t take ... more »

How to grow oregano

By happie123

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1. Make sure that you are planting in spring 2. Put in the kind of wet soil 3. flaten the soil 4. Now get your oregamo seeds 5. make a 1 inch hole plant only two seeds for each hole 6. At least 2 inches apart 7. Keep in a sunny place 8. If your ... more »

How to Herbs / Health Benefits / Herbs that boost the immune system

By logan

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Herbs and the heath benefits they contain. What to use for specific types of disorders... more »

How to Plant a BBQ Garden.

By GreenGardenChic

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The perfect grilling garden dad's will love. Since most BBQ's are kept on the deck or patio, it makes sense to grow this garden in containers. Keep a pair of scissors nearby, so the chef can easily snip and go... more »

How to Prevent Mint From Spreading

By Willi Galloway

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Many gardeners avoid growing mint due to its unfortunate habit of quickly outgrowing its space and invading the entire garden. Mint is a hardy, perennial herb that spreads by sending out vigorous rhizomes (underground stems). In order to keep ... more »

How to Start Valerian Plants From Seed

By eHow Home & Garden Editor

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Valerian, also known as Garden Heliotrope, is a hardy perennial prized for its medicinal effects. Cats love it. It is a great companion for other plants in your garden, attracts butterflies and is squirrel and rabbit resistant. Valerian has a ... more »

How to Use Thyme Herb in Cooking

By cakewalk

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Thyme is an herb that grows great in most gardens with little gardening know-how. It is great dried or fresh, and comes in many different varieties to suite whatever dish you are creating... more »

How to Use Wild Purslane

By jpwhickson

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When spring turns to summer, gardeners all over the world are swinging their hoes to chop the purslane out of their garden. Purslane is a weed that can be used on the supper table. In “Walden,” Henry David Thoreau describes living a simple life ... more »

How to Dry Fresh Herbs

By Willi Galloway

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Herbs dried from your own garden taste much better than those you buy at the grocery store for one simple reason: they are fresh. The volatile oils that give herbs their flavor dissipate over time, which means the longer a jar of herbs has been ... more »

How to Grow a Pizza Topping Garden

By ProfessorSprout

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What do you like on your pizza? Did you realize you can grow most of them in your home garden?? It is fun and a great family project - Grow a pizza garden.. more »

How to Keep Your Lavender Plants Lush.

By GreenGardenChic

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How many of us dream of having a garden full of Lavender with the heavy aroma wafting about and happy little Bumble Bees getting drunk off the nectar as they buzz from bud to bud? Why is it that our young plants begin to break and thin out in ... more »

How to Save Lanky Basil Seedlings

By Willi Galloway

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The easiest way to get a jump start on pesto season is to buy a few basil starts at a nursery. However, the problem with this tactic is that the basil seedlings offered for sale are often tall and lanky and they ultimately do not grow as well or ... more »

How to small container garden (kitchen herbs)

By rkayne

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Don't have much space and want fresh herbs? Want them to appear as appetizing as they taste? Try it this way!.. more »

How to Dry and Store Fresh Herbs

By danielzrib

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Whether you purchase fresh herbs from the market, or harvest them from your own garden, air-drying herbs is the easiest and cheapest way to enjoy them long after the growing season has passed... more »

How to Harvest and Dry Catnip

By cgronwall

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You planted catnip seeds in the spring thinking of the fun you’d have with your cat. Now you find yourself with a mound of leafy green catnip and don’t know what to do. Harvesting and drying catnip is as easy as the catnip was to grow in the ... more »

How to Harvest and Store Marjoram

By eHow Home & Garden Editor

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Marjoram is a close cousin of oregano. It has a more delicate flavor, which some people prefer, but the two herbs can be used interchangeably in most recipes... more »

How to Start Seeds in Egg Crates

By SommerSA

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Starting flowers, vegetables and herbs from seed doesn't have to be an expensive and complicated process... Using leftover paper egg crates, you can begin your garden indoors, recycle and lessen the traumas of transplanting when moving your ... more »

How to Build a Straw Bale Cold Frame

By Jane Smith

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For many people who live in freezing climates, they are forced to buy herbs and vegetable during the winter months instead of growing their own. However, there is a way to enjoy year-round vegetables and fresh herbs. A straw bale cold frame can ... more »

How to collect and save Chive seeds

By divaqs

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Saving seeds can be a great way to save a lot of money on growing new plants and make gardening even more fulfilling as you take a more complete part in the plant life-cycle. Chives are a good beginning plant to start with... more »

How to gather flowers, leaves, seeds, sap, and roots

By Moonowler

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Flowering plants produce true flowers or food from sunlight. Food keeps the seed of an embryo alive for germination. There are about a quarter million species of flowering plants in the world today. Over 300 million years ago horsetail forests ... more »

How to Grow a Ginger Plant

By eHow Home & Garden Editor

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Ginger is a great herb for adding spice to Asian and Mid-Eastern food dishes. You can grow ginger plants in your home from a simple ginger root purchased at the store and use them for cooking. You can also sprout the plant and transfer it to your ... more »

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