Basic herb gardening 10 Articles

by Gillian Sand

Anybody can grow herbs! Growing herbs is the easiest way to begin learning to garden. If you have ever tasted spaghetti sauce made made with fresh herbs from a garden, you know the benefits go beyond the beauty and ease of...read more

by Santi Meintjes

An herb garden can be as small or as large as you want. It can be done for culinary, medicinal, or aromatic purposes. Then again, it can also be an all-purpose herb garden. Some herb gardens are made around a theme e.g....read more

by Usha Krishnan

I do not have a green thumb. In fact, if there is a prize for killing the most plants, I think I would earn it straight away. I leave the heavy gardening to those who seem to know what they are doing, namely my husband and...read more

by Geejayz

One of the best parts about growing your own herb garden is being able to pick and use the fresh herbs as and when you need them. From the lemon balm leaf in a glass of tea to the sweet basil in a pot of marinara sauce, h...read more

by Reverend Ashira Goddard

It is that time of year when daydreams begin for the wonderful spring season. This year, why not consider an herbal garden, which can be both visually stimulating and aromatically pleasing? Exactly what makes a garden an ...read more

by Nadine Gardner

You can grow herbs in pots or in the ground, around trees and really anywhere they have warmth and sun. But a herb garden is just a herb garden unless you mix a little magic in with the growing. Herbs are the most versatil...read more

by Greg Spinks

"Sang" - a valuable American Native American Ginseng is, and has been for centuries, a highly prized mountain herb. Yet, despite it's roots in colonial America, many aspects of the woodland herb are cloaked in secrec...read more

by Judy Vines

"I am sorry to say that Peter was not very well during the evening. His mother put him to bed and made some chamomile tea and she gave a dose of it to Peter, one tablespoon full to be taken at bedtime." (The Tale of Pet...read more

by Denepher Smith

To experience a guaranteed feeling of success at producing a basic herb garden, no plant can be more obliging than the mint. Greek legend has it that Pluto's wife Persephone turned the nymph Minthe into a herb when she bec...read more

by Emma Cooper

An herb spiral is an herb garden that pulls together many permaculture design principles and follows a shape the spiral that is commonly found in nature. At its heart is a mound of soil, about 2 meters in diameter and 1 ...read more