Herb Gardening
Growing Techniques
Before you can grow herbs, you have to be able to start your own herb
garden seed so here's a few tips to do that
Grow
herbs indoors - here's a few tips and
thoughts on that subject.
Planting
herbs outdoors after you've started them is the next step.
Organic
herb gardening is important to you, here are two things you
need to know.
Culinary
herbs growing tips can be found here. The number one tip -
grow what you use!
There is one essential rule in kitchen herb gardening and here
it is.
How
to make your own herb garden marker
Drying
herbs, freezing and microwaving them to preserve them for
winter cookery exercises.
Herb Plant List
•Anise
is a annual with licorice-tasting leaf that is fairly straightforward
if you watch the transplanting. Here's the tips to get it into your
garden.
• Arugula
a herb? - some consider it to be a vegetable. No matter. Here's how to
grow it.
•Basil
is my favourite cooking herb and it is easy to grow as well.
•Bee
Balm has fragrant leaves and is indeed a component of Earl
Gray Tea.
•Borage
has attractive blue flowers, self sows and goes in summer drinks.
Here's how to grow it.
•Caraway
is used in baking and cheese making but can be very weedy in your
garden.
•Growing
Catnip is a worthy exercise from a cat's point of view or if
you require some for Chinese medicinal purposes. This is a plant thug
so beware.
•Chamomile
is grown for its healthy relaxing and digestive-aiding teas produced by
the flowers of this attractive herb garden plant.
•Chives
are excellent and easy to grow in the sunny garden. I can't imagine a
great fried egg sandwich without them and the uses of garlic chives are
even more interesting and make growing herbs very worthwhile.
•Coriander
seeds and leaves are useful if harvested properly and at the
right time. Here's what to watch for.
•Growing
Comfrey is easy if you give it part shade and leave it
alone. Great for ornamental as well as herbal use.
•Dill
is one of the most adaptable and easiest growing herbs. Good thing too
or my kids wouldn't have developed a taste for dill pickles.
•Fennel
or Florence Fennel has useful roots, stalks, leaves and
flower seeds. What more could you ask for?
•Garlic
is wonderful stuff and the perfect accompaniment to so many great
meals. Here's how to grow it and some varieties to look out for (By the
way - elephant garlic isn't really garlic - here's what it is). I can't
imagine growing herbs without this plant.
•Ginger
is easily grown in the home herb garden. Here's how.
•Horseradish
is hot stuff but here's how to grow and tame it.
•Lavender
is also a culinary herb and here's how to grow it. Here's my best-selling
handbook on how to grow lavender
•Lemon
Balm is a member of the mint family and easy to grow. Use it
where life has handed you a lemon to make lemon-aid.
•Marjoram
or Sweet Marjoram is an annual herb - related to oregano but
sweeter and not as strong. Plus the Greeks used in in interesting ways
described here.
•
Oregano is beloved of Greek and Italian cooking and growing
herbs like this one is central to your culinary herb garden. Also
includes recommended varieties.
•Growing
Rosemary has become a bit of a passion for me and while I
can't overwinter it outdoors, it hasn't stopped me from growing it in
containers in my kitchen herb garden.
•Growing
sage is easily enough done that you'll want to use this plant
in the ornamental garden as well.
•Scented
geraniums I've grown a few over the years and here's a bit of
a listing plus my comments. I'll keep reviewing the plants as I grow
them (or you can tell me about them).
•Growing sorrel
with its sour-apple-lemon taste for
perking up summer salads.
•Spearmint
isn't the problem, sometimes finding the real stuff
and stopping it from growing are greater challenges.
•Growing
Summer Savory is an exercise in easy gardening that is both
for the flavour and the flower of it.
•Thyme
is one of the basic herbs and easy to grow in well-drained
soils.
•Growing
watercress is easier with flowing water but it is not
necessary to get this spicy leaf.
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small anise
Why are my anise bulbs so small, and the stalks so tall and thin? How do I correct this problem now , and prevent it in the future?
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Sun or part sun
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