How to use Herbs from a Home Herb Garden

Herbs are tremendously useful in so many ways. Your home herb garden has been planted, watered, taken care of, and you’ve watched the plants grow and thrive. Now it’s time to learn how to use those wonderful herbs and it requires a little bit of work.

The first [...]

Herb Garden Plants

Like other types of plans, herb garden plants are annuals, perennials, or biennials. There are many different varieties of herbs and each one is different. This article will provide a general understanding of the different types of herb plants and what they are used for. If you have an interest in a [...]

Herb Gardens for Beginners

Starting an herb garden, for beginners, can be as simple as starting with a windowsill planter. Growing an indoor herb garden away from the harsher outside elements can provide you with easy access herbs year round. Whether growing medicinal herbs, herbs for tea or a cooking herb garden, it’s an economic way [...]

Growing an Italian herb garden

An Italian herb garden planter or outdoor herb garden sounds marvelous, doesn’t it? Basil, oregano, sage, garlic, parsley, fennel, rosemary – to name a few, these are all the great flavors that make Italian cooking, well, Italian…

Basil

Basil: a very well known Italian herb has a strong, pungent, sweet smell. There [...]

Designing an Herb Garden

Designing an herb garden is fun and easy, after you decide on a few basics. Once you know that you’d like your own herb garden and you’ve selected the space you’d like to use for it, which design style would most appeal to you and make the best use of your chosen [...]

Potted Herb Garden

For those small spaces or by preference, a potted herb garden is an excellent alternative to the outdoor herb garden. A windowsill herb garden, a hanging basket, and of course pots can be used for your potted herb garden. Since growing an indoor herb garden has the same growing requirements as outdoor plants, [...]

Herb Tea Garden Designs

As any tea lover would tell you, making tea from fresh herbs can be so flavorful that it’s a wonder more people don’t try it. It doesn’t get any fresher than growing tea herbs and harvesting them for use in your own kitchen. Your tea herb garden design isn’t hard to start, [...]

Fresh Herb Garden

Is it worth the effort to grow your own fresh herb garden? Are fresh herbs really that much better? There’s only one way to find out: try them for yourself. One way to do that is to grow them yourself. Fresh herb gardens have become even more popular in recent times. Either to [...]