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  • How to Grow, Care for, Harvest, & Store Herbs

    Herb gardens are wonderful for beginning and experienced gardeners alike. They can thrive in a variety of conditions and produce crops that are available for harvest perennially or seasonally....

  • What Herbs Grow in the Winter?

    Using fresh herbs is a wonderful way to add zest to any dish. Finding fresh herbs during the winter months can be difficult, especially in nonurban areas. However, growing and harvesting your own...

  • How to Desucker Banana Plants

    Banana plants can spread quickly through suckers, which are new plants that grow off of a horizontal root from the mother plant. In order to produce a healthy bunch of fruit, however, you need...

  • DIY: Herb Garden

    If you love to cook with herbs, save money and improve the taste of your herb-infused recipes with herbs from your own garden. Create a do-it-yourself herb garden that's as simple or as elaborate...

  • How to Grow & Preserve Herbs

    Herbs are satisfying to grow for both new and experienced gardeners. Herbs are useful as medicinal cures, herbal teas or as additives to culinary dishes. Grow and preserve herbs for a variety of...

  • How to Buy Unrooted Herb Cuttings

    Buying unrooted cuttings (URCs) of almost any herb you want is fairly easy, especially with the instant access to the unrooted stock available at nurseries and farms through the Internet. Unrooted...

  • How to Use a Strawberry Planter Indoors

    Growing a culinary herb garden indoors is a dream of many cooks. Using a strawberry pot to grow them can make this dream a reality for even those with extremely limited space. The pockets of a...

  • How to Prune French Lavender

    French lavender is beloved for its fragrance and culinary powers. This herb can be grown indoors or outdoors. French lavender features greyish-purple blossoms that can grow quite tall if left...

  • How to Plant Lavender Vera

    Lavender vera is known more commonly as English lavender. It is a perennial herb native to the Mediterranean. A bushy plant, lavender vera is hardy in zones 5 to 9. This evergreen, with its...

  • Can Hypericum Be Planted in Shade?

    Hypericum, also known as Saint John's wort or Aaron's beard, is an herbal ground cover or shrub that is hardy in the lower half of the continental U.S. Although Hypericum prefers sun, it can be...

  • How Long Does it Take to Germinate Lemon Balm?

    Lemon balm (Melissa officinalis) is a drought-tolerant herb that can add beauty to the garden, enhance your favorite chicken and fish recipes and even calm the nerves. When grown in full sun, this...

  • What Is English Lavender?

    The flowering English lavender plant is the most widely cultivated species of lavender in the world, according to North Carolina State University. Scientists refer to English lavender as Lavandula...

  • How to Plant Herbs: Sun & Shade Requirements

    Herbs are generally easy to grow, though growing conditions vary for individual plants. All herbs thrive in well-drained soil. Most prefer full sun ,while some do well in partial sun. Few herbs...

  • English Lavender Plant Habitat

    English lavender is the most popular species of lavender plant in the United States, but its biggest claim to fame was as the foundation of the lavender oil industry in 18th century England. The...

  • When to Start Herb Seeds Indoors?

    Herbs are plants that grow leaves you can use as seasoning for your cooking or in salads. Plant herb seeds indoors during the winter, but make sure they get enough sun or light from a grow lamp....

  • When to Sow Lavender Seeds?

    Lavender, whether grown for culinary, medicinal or ornamental purposes, is treasured for its robust bushes, delicate blooms and heady fragrance. This multifaceted herb is typically grown by...

  • How to Plant Sugar Plants From a Seed

    For those looking for a sugar substitute, Sugar Plant, or Stevia, may be a healthful gardening choice. Used in Paraguay by the Guarini Indians as medicine and sweetener for 1,500 years, it is 20...

  • How to Create an Indoor Herb Garden Using a Grow Light

    Herbs are useful plants for a kitchen garden. Each herb offers many uses for seasoning your favorite dishes. Most herb types are suitable for an indoor garden if they are provided enough light to...

  • Care of Monarda Didyma Plant

    Bee balm (Monarda didyma) is an aromatic herb bearing the distinctive square stems and pointed leaves of the mint family. The original wild version of monarda sports scarlet flower heads arrayed...

  • How to Grow Organic Herbs in Containers

    It is easy to grow organic herbs in containers as long as a few basic principles are followed. The main points to be considered are the location for the containers, the containers themselves, the...

  • How to Start an Outdoor Herb Garden

    Herbs have a variety of uses including ornamental, medicinal, culinary and aromatic. Many herbs are useful in more than one of these categories. Growing an herb garden will benefit you by...

  • How to Cultivate Arnica

    Arnica, also known as wolf's bane, mountain daisy and mountain tobacco, is a perennial plant that tolerates a variety of soil conditions, including poor soils, as long as it has enough moisture....

  • Is Red Clover a Perennial?

    Red clover, scientifically known as Trifolium pratense L, is a short-lived perennial, meaning it typically lasts three to five years but can persist with self-seeding. Red clover is the most...

  • Dill Plant Care

    Anethum graveolens, commonly known as dill, is an aromatic, annual herb commonly used in culinary endeavors for its distinctive flavor. Dill plants add visual interest to flower beds with their...

  • Is Lemon Balm a Perennial?

    Lemon balm is a fragrant herb used in cooking and is a member of the mint family. The official name is Melissa officinalis. It may also be brewed as a tea and makes a pleasant addition to other...

  • How to Plant Gensing Seeds in the Spring

    Wild ginseng naturally grows beneath the canopy of a hardwood forest. Ginseng has been used in Chinese medicine for impotence, poor concentration, fatigue and luck. Ginseng goes for a high price...

  • About the Flax Plant

    The flax plant or Linum usitatissimum L. is an erect annual herb with gray-green leaves that grows 12 to 36 inches tall. Flax produces numerous branches that end with a five-petal blue flower.

  • How to Make Dandelion Root Extract

    Dandelion, the plant commonly labeled a weed and often ruthlessly expunged from yards, actually offers remarkable healing properties. The herbal healing tradition holds that dandelion powerfully...

  • Uses for Crimson Bee Balm

  • Patchouli Plant Information

    Patchouli has a strong, musky fragrance, which the plant is prized for. It has gained great popularity throughout the United States as well as in Asia.

  • How to Grow An Indoor Herbal Garden

    Many vegetables and herbs that are grown outdoors can easily be grown indoors during the cold winter months. Learn how easy having freshly grown herbs year around can be.

  • How to Dry and Store Catnip

    Catnip is an easy to grow perennial plant as far north as USDA zone 3. Not all cats are attracted to catnip, but those who do will be seen sniffing and rolling on the foliage. Catnip can be...

  • How to Make Your Own Wiccan Herb Labels

    After spending the time planting, caring for and harvesting your herbs, the last thing you want is to forget which ones are what and when you picked them. Herbs have a period when they are at...

  • How to Grow an Organic Herb Garden

    Growing an Organic Herb garden is rewarding and a lot easier than you may think. Herbs are beautiful, you can eat them, and they will benefit your garden in so many ways, give them a try and...

  • How to Save Stevia Plants

    Stevia plants are native to South America, particularly the country of Paraguay. They have the additional names of sweet leaf, sugar leaf or Stevia rebaudiana. This tender perennial is a member of...

  • How to Grow White Sage Hydroponically

    Hydroponics is the technology of growing plants in a nutrient-rich liquid solution (fertilizers and water) with or without the use of an artificial medium such as vermiculite, sand, gravel or...

  • How to Grow Herbs in a Garden

    Growing your own herbs is an economical way to always have fresh herbs on hand for cooking or for garnish. Some of the most popular herbs are parsley, sage, chives, thyme and basil. Other uses for...

  • How to Grow Herbs in the Caribbean

    Historically, herbs or herbaceous plants have been grown around the world for both their culinary flavor, enhancing taste and fragrance as well as for their beneficial medicinal properties. Most...

  • How to Make Your Own Herbs and Flowers for Health

    Introduce sweet, organic fresh herbs to your green lifestyle. Parsley, dill, and rosemary are just a few of the many healing and healthful herbs that can be successfully cultivated in containers...

  • How to Grow Dill in your Home Vegetable Garden

    Visit any website that features food recipes, do a search on dill and literally hundreds, if not thousands, depending on the website you visit, of recipes will appear for this great tasting herbs....

  • How to Grow Herbs and Cinnamon Spice

    People prize herbs for their multitude of uses and have employed them for medicines, seasonings, flavorings, personal beautification and fragrance. Greek and Roman students wore garlands of...

  • How to Grow White Sage in Zone 8

    White sage is an evergreen shrub that can grow up to three feet tall. Its leaves are used to make tea for medicinal purposes and can help settle the stomach, decrease sweating and help ease sore...

  • How to Dry Herbs to Make Essential Oils

    Essential oils have hundreds of benefits such as aiding with digestion, strengthening the immune system, eliminating headaches, and relieving congestion. They are widely used in aromatherapy to...

  • How to Care for Bacopa Monnieri

    Bacopa monnieri is a creeping vine, found mostly in shallow swamp areas and muddy shorelines. It is a succulent plant, which means it retains water well, and can withstand salty conditions. The...

  • How to Blend Clary Sage & Geranium Oil

    Sage oil is the essential oil extracted from the herb sage (Salvia officinalis). Native to the northeastern shores of the Mediterranean, sage has for hundreds of years been used as a pungent...

  • How to Extract Sage Oil

    Sage (Salvia officinalis) also known as clary sage, vervain, garden and common sage, is a small evergreen shrub that only grows to about 1 or 2 feet tall. Greenish gray leafed with wiry, woody...

  • How to Grow Ma Huang

    Ma huang is an herb that was originally grown in China. The stems of the plant are dried and used for medicinal purposes to treat colds and the flu. Ma huang also is used as a natural appetite...

  • How to Propagate Tarragon From Cuttings

    Tarragon is a perennial herb that thrives in warm, dry climates. Russian tarragon will grow from seed. But the more popular French tarragon propagation is done through root division or from...

  • How to Use Herb Garden Grow Lights

    The use herb garden grow lights will enable you to have a beautiful and bountiful herb garden year round. An herb garden is handy to provide aromatherapy in your home with the wonderful aromas...

  • How to Dry Basil Simply and Without Effort

    When autumn arrives but you're not ready to say goodbye to your basil, try this easy method to dry and keep the herb in your kitchen.

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