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 thatGrow 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 straightforwardif 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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