Stop! Before you take the shovel, before you plant a single herb. Stop to consider why you want an herb garden. What are your intentions for planting these marvelous plants? Are you planning on using them both fresh and dried for culinary purposes — to add to your meals to enhance the flavors? Are you [...]

How to grow beautiful culinary herbs You don’t have to be a chef or have a green thumb to grow an herb garden. Culinary herbs are extremely easy to grow. Once they get going, they add fragrance, texture and color to just about any garden or space. Harvest your culinary herbs to make everything from [...]

When starting a home herb garden, you may find it difficult to decide which herbs to grow considering the array of herbs from which to select. A first approach would be to consult your supermarket for the herbs you usually buy for your cooking needs. Another good source is a cooking book that contains a [...]

Making use of home herb garden   You have planted the herbs and watched them grow and flourish.  They are extremely useful in so many ways.  But, using herbs from a home herb garden requires a little bit of work first.    In order to use the herbs you will need to harvest them first.  [...]

Many people at some point in their life plant herbs. Home-grown herbs are useful to have around for numerous reasons. Starting your own home herb garden takes a bit off work in the begining, but the the rewards are great. You must harvest your herbs before they can be used. It’s important to pick them [...]

Are you tired of the kind of food we get from grocery stores these days? I mean, we are bombarded with artificial, processed food from all quarters and we don’t have much of a choice if we want to get fresh and chemical-free food from the local market. This is even more true if you [...]

You have learned how to grow your own home herb garden and are happy with the results.  You have managed to produce some good healthy plants and now it is time to start using them.  The following are some tips on how to use the beautiful herbs that you have managed to grow. The first [...]

A home herb garden is a great source of fresh herbs any time of the year and has many benefits. The herbs you grow can be enjoyed fresh or preserved by drying or freezing for later use. Herbs are tremendously useful in so many ways. Your home herb garden has been planted, watered, taken care [...]

Growing herbs as been a popular activity throughout history dating back to the Bible. Producing herbs in ones home herb garden has always been a time tested method of assuring a constant supply on these fine flavorful plants.This took a backdrop with the enduring popularity of convenient food stores and mass manufacturing of these ”products”, [...]

A home herb garden is ideal for any enthusiastic cook who values flavor in their food. Most of the herbs that we commonly use for cooking are easy to grow, and once you have experienced the pleasure of picking fresh pieces for the pot, you will never want to be without freshly grown herbs. This [...]