Growing Tarragon: French Flavor At Your Fingertips
Growing tarragon in your herb garden is easy with our complete growing guide! We’ll help you to keep fresh herbs on hand year-round.
Herbs
Growing herbs is an easy way to save money at the grocery store and spice up your cooking. Learn how to grow your own kitchen herbs!
Bay Laurel: Growing Sweet Bay At Home
Not only is it beautiful, but it tastes good in soups and stews. Growing a bay laurel tree provides you with lots of sweet bay. Here’s how!
Calamint: How to Grow Aromatic Flowering Clouds
Calamint is uncommon in American cookery, but is a common spice in Mediterranean countries. Learn about this herb with our growing guide!
Ginger Plant: Adding Spice To Your Garden
The sharp and zingy flavor of the ginger plant is popular in ethnic cuisines worldwide. We’ll show you how to grow it!
Vietnamese Coriander: Another Fantastic Cilantro Substitute
Vietnamese coriander (Persicaria odorata), known as rau ram in Vietnam, is a fantastic cilantro substitute you should grow in your garden.
Lemongrass Plant: Bright Flavor & Ornamental Charm
Lemongrass plant is a great ornamental grass – and it tastes good too! Our growing guide explains it all so you can grow this culinary treat.
Papalo: Grow A Fantastic Cilantro Substitute
Papalo (or papaloquelite) is a heat-loving cilantro alternative you should be growing in your summer garden.
White Sage Plant: Growing Guide, Smudging, and Seeds
If there’s any herb that has a long and storied history, it’s the white sage plant, also called salvia apiana. Used heavily amongst California tribal people for centuries, this plant …
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Catmint: Grow and Care for Nepeta
So many catmint varieties, so little time! There are over 250 species of Nepeta in Europe and Asia. But only a fraction of these make it onto a gardener’s list …
Growing Basil: Planting, Cultivating, Harvesting and Storing
When Simon and Garfunkel recorded the song “Scarborough Fair,” they sang about parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme. The first thought that goes through my head when I hear this song …
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4 Healing Herbs to Grow in a Medicinal Herb Garden
Now is the time of year that most gardeners begin planning their garden for the New Year, making tweaks and additions to their existing garden plans in order to create …
11 Most Surprising Benefits of Mint
These days, mint is everywhere. It’s in our chewing gum, tea, foods, and God knows our breath would be less than ideal if it wasn’t in our toothpastes. Because of …