Herbs to Grow and How to Cook With Them

Herbs are the easiest and most versatile plants to grow in your garden, at least in my experience. There have been times I had so much basil dried and put up for at least a year and also kept friends and family supplied.  Cooking a spaghetti sauce with basil is so much tastier than store...

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Creative Ways to Grow Herbs

I love growing herbs close to the kitchen.  In fact, they are beautiful grown indoors. Container gardening is my preferred method of gardening since the plants are portable and can be moved from outdoors to indoors. Click here to go to an article from The Empress of Dirt on being creative...

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Tips on growing basil

Our basil seedlings are growing like weeds!  We are going to have more basil plants than I have ever grown at one time :)  One can never have enough basil and I love giving them to friends and family to enjoy . . . ready to pinch and use in cooking. Have you ever had a homemade...

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Cilantro ~ Grow it in your garden

Coriandrum Sativum . . . also known as Chinese parsley. The leafy part is called Cilantro, the seed is known as Coriander. Cilantro loses its flavor when dried or cooked, so it is best used fresh. Since Cilantro plants grow and go to seed quickly, it is best to plant them continuously...

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