Learn how to plant organic vegetable gardens and why people choose organic. The focus on Vegetable and Herb-gardening in the past 10 years has been on growing more flavorful, nutritious, and fresher produce than can be found in your local grocery store. Our mouths water for the fresh herbs, garden ripened tomatoes, spicy ethnic peppers,…
Herb Gardening Indoors Gardening Indoors can be done easily if you have the proper conditions in your home. The key to success is having enough light for the plants to do well. West and South facing windows provide the most light. If the herbs are not getting enough light they will just stop growing and…
Herb Garden Designing In order to design your herb garden, the first thing you need to know is how large herbs will grow. This guide will tell you approximately how large a mature plant will be in just a year or two. Once you know how much room to allot to each variety, you can…
How To Start An Herb Garden Herbs are very easy to grow with a little sunshine, soil that drains well, some watering, and a little fertilizer or compost. Herbs can be grown in pots; however, the plants always prefer to be in the ground where they can spread out. Some plants grow quite large (4-6…
How to Grow Herbs The following questions and answers will help you learn about herbs and their requirements for growing. Click the link below for our Herb encyclopedia which gives more specific information for each culinary herb. 1. How long is this plant going to live? What is the normal lifespan of this plant? Most…
Growing Dill Dill grows best in Spring and Fall and will not do well when the summer starts to heat up. About 85 degrees is the hottest it can stand before it shrivels up and dies or bolts to flower. Dill should be grown in an area that gets afternoon shade and can be grown…
Thymes Thymes are a very large family of plants and they are used for their distinctive flavor that brings cooking to a different level. French Thyme, English Thyme, German Thyme, and Lemon Thyme are just a few but are the most common varieties. Some creep along the ground and others grow in a 1 1/2…
French Tarragon The true French Tarragon has the best flavor and cannot be grown from seeds as this plant will not flower. Cuttings must be taken in order to reproduce this plant which makes it more expensive and harder to find. Tarragon grows in full sun and will grow to about 2 feet or so…
Growing Sages: To use Sage in cooking, use it to flavor meats such as in Veal Saltimbocca, with Roasting meats and potatoes, as stuffing with onion, or just use fresh leaves sautéed in butter on pasta. Use just a little at a time, it is very full flavored. There are many types of sages grown…
Growing Rosemary Indoors it is necessary to mist once or twice week to recreate the humidity of the coast. Rosemary will eventually become a 6 foot shrub, especially in mild winter areas and it is important to prune plants back every year to encourage new soft growth or rosemary can become woody. f winters are…
