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Four Ways to Enjoy Your Herbal Potpourri

A potpourri is a long-lasting mixture of fragrant herbs, spices, and filler plant materials. You can easily make a potpourri to preserve your favorite summer fragrances in a jar. Look for recipes in herbal craft books, on herbal websites, or just create your own custom blends using plants from your garden or purchased. You may [...]

Four Ways to Enjoy Herbal Potpourri

A potpourri is a long-lasting mixture of fragrant herbs, spices, and filler plant materials. You can easily make a potpourri to preserve your favorite summer fragrances in a jar. Look for recipes in herbal craft books, on herbal websites, or just create your own custom blends using plants from your garden or purchased. You may [...]

Discover Easy Growing Savory

Summer and winter savory are two aromatic and easy to grow Mediterranean herbs that should be in everyone’s garden. Both have echoes of thyme and oregano, with just a hint of spiciness. Traditionally these two plants were grown near bee hives, providing nectar for honey production. They also are great companion plants, because their aromatic [...]

How to Make A Christmas Herbal Wreath

Christmas wreaths are one of the first decorations many of us hang. A decorative and colorful wreath is a welcoming sight on the front door. This year, why not make your own wreath using some of the dried herbs and plants from your gardens. Take a big basket and your sharpest shears, and look for [...]

How to Make Herbal Vinegars and Oils

It’s easy to make delicious herbal oils and vinegars from the herbs in your garden. Use these flavored oils and vinegars to add a different taste and zest to marinades and salad dressings. You can use the herbs either fresh or dried in making them.
The supplies you’ll need for making herb vinegar are as [...]

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Start Growing Herbs for Your Kitchen

We all use herbs in the kitchen in our cooking and baking. Almost every recipe calls for a pinch of this or a sprig of that herb. If you love cooking as much as I do, you will definitely agree that fresh herbs, just picked from the garden, have much better flavor than commercially dried [...]

Eight Essentials for Your Perennial Herb Garden

Like all plants, herbs can be either annuals, biennials or perennials. Perennial herbs are among the most popular herbs for herb gardeners, since they grow for several years. Plant your perennial herbs in their own garden space near the back door where they are in easy reach for cooking. You will also enjoy their fragrance [...]

Designs for Your Herb Garden

Many questions come to mind when thinking about how to design a herb garden.
The first question to answer is where to put the garden. Look out your kitchen window for inspiration. You probably already trek back and forth between the herbs and the kitchen every day of the growing season. You can cut that trekking [...]

Leaves to Brew – Growing Tea Herbs

What could be more invigorating than filling your teapot with a blend of fresh herbs, and enjoying an early morning cup of herbal tea from your own tea herb garden! Each day you could make a different brew – citrus flavored lemony herbs like lemon verbena and lemon balm, refreshing peppermint or spearmint, a tonic [...]