The Basics of Herbs & How to Use Them
The most important thing to remember is that they be fresh and pesticide free. Most dried herbs and spices lose their potency after six...
Grow Theses Plants To Help Save Bees !
You can grow these plants to help save these important pollinators.
Herbs:
Lavender, Catmint, Sage, Cilantro, Thyme, Fennel, Borage, Rosemary, Comfrey, Hyssop, Thyme Marjoram, Lemon Balm,...
How to Quickly Detaching Leaves from an Herb Stem
Prudent Living website shares a simple but quite impressive method of quickly detaching leaves from an herb stem.
Anyone you has grown an herb garden...
Herb Garden: Grow Herbs in Your Sunny Windowsill Project
Dimples And Pigtales website shares how to grow a mason jar herb garden in your sunny south facing windowsills so you can have fresh...
Make a Hanging Herb Garden DIY
Nice tutorial from Home dzine on how to make your own cute little herb garden using recyclables. I like it. Neat and tidy and...
Propagating Rosemary
If you would like more rosemary plants Growing The Home Garden has a tutorial that will show you how to make more plants from...
Prune Your Garlic
The organic lemon tells us how and why to prune our garlic as it grows. Not only will you get bigger garlic bulbs but...
7 tips for growing mad giant basil plants
If you have trouble getting basil to grow and survive check out these tips from Off beat home.
They have tips for how to start...
Hanging Herb Garden
I totally love this idea for an herb garden. The hanging baskets of herbs look so neat and tidy and you can grow different...
4 Reasons Why Growing Herbs Makes Sense (and Cents, or Rather, Bucks)
Food shed planet tells us that growing basil is much more economical than buying it in the store.
They did the figures and came up...
Encyclopedia of spices – try a new one or find which ones pair with which foods. Nice list
This is a fantastic site for information on spices. It tells which ones belong in which group and then tells you what types of...
Jackie's Garden Primer – How To Start A Garden
Jackie ( a contributing author to Backwoods Home Magazine) shares her vast knowledge of how to start a garden or simply a refresher course.
Backwoods...
How to Start a Medicinal Herb Garden
Off The Grid News website shares suggestions on how to start a medicinal herb garden.
Within their article is an interesting chart that features the...
Growing Your Family’s Pharmacy
Nice article and chart on growing herbs for your ailments.
Off the grid news has the information to grow your own pharmacy.
The chart tells which...
26 Mosquito Repellent Plants To Plant Around Your Yard
Hibiscus And More blog shares a list of plants that you can add to your yard around your home that will repel mosquitoes.
This is...
How to Grow Ginger Indoors
Did you know you can grow ginger in a pot. You sure can, just buy some healthy looking ginger root from the grocery store...
Nice Round Up Of Potted Herb Garden Ideas
Limited space or unable to dig the yard up this is a nice round up of ideas to grow herbs in containers from Growing...
Mint: Tips & Usage – Culinary, Gardening & Repellant
Snip away.... clip the young shoots to promote regular growth. Prune established plants enthusiastically to stimulate growth of tender leaves.
Harvest your plant until a...
Growing Sage in Your Kitchen Herb Garden
Untrained Housewife blog shares encouraging tips on how to grow sage to get a flavorful big harvest.
Fresh sage is always the best but I...
How To Attract Honey Bees To Your Garden
I think by now everyone knows that most of our plants that provide us with food need bees to pollinate them. Some, like...
