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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.
Marjorams have a pleasant and distinct aroma. Pot marjoram is somewhat stronger and it is one of the most popular of the cultivated herbs, flourishing in temperate climates.
Bulbinella has long been considered the pharmocopeia plant of the herbal world; the fleshy leaves yield a jelly like sap that has multiple virtues and applications – as you will see under the ‘usage’ section. Bushmen and iron age dwellers of Southern Africa knew and understood its virtues. It has long been a part of the traditional healers arsenal.
Licorice herb garden plants have been cultivated for use as a mild laxative and an aid to overindulgence for over a millennium. Health shops still sell licorice in root form for its various virtues as well as for tonics.
Discover the secrets to growing herbs successfully: from soil requirements to watering tips and harvesting techniques.
Summer and winter savory are two of the most aromatic and easy to grow Mediterranean herbs that should be in everyone’s garden.
Mint symbolizes “hospitality” and can be grown in pots and containers indoors and out.
The parsley herb is a biennial, which means it will last two years after which the parsley must be replanted. The parsley herb will produce an umbrella of small yellow flowers. The first year of the parsley herb will have a more delicate flavor.
Called the “herb of happiness,” Origanum majorana, commonly known as sweet marjoram or knotted marjoram, is an herbal symbol of peace and well-being.
Comfrey is just one of those plants that every organic garden must have growing. It also has great merit as a medicinal plant.
Growing basil plants in your garden or container garden will yield you a bountiful crop. The basil leaves can be used in a variety of ways in your kitchen.