Category: Culinary & Household Herbs

A comprehensive guide to growing, harvesting, and using essential herbs. Whether you are planting a kitchen windowsill box or a sprawling garden plot, discover expert tips on soil, light, and propagation for culinary favorites and multipurpose household plants.

Herbs for a Spaghetti Garden

One of the more popular types of kitchen gardens is a spaghetti garden. Oregano, basil, garlic, bay and parsley are such easy to grow plants that it’s a pity for anyone to use dried and bottled herbs.

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Herb Garden Plants – Caraway

Herb garden plants of ancient cultivation, legend endows them with the power to prevent lovers and doves from straying. It was thus a popular ingredient of love potions in medieval times and was fed to doves, pigeons and poultry to prevent them from wandering. Caraway seeds are used to flavor meat dishes, breads, soups, cheeses – you name it.

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