Articles related to "Herb Seeds"



February's Indoor Garden
Can't wait till Spring to get started in the garden? Here are some suggestions for seeds that are worth starting now.
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Growing Herbs from Seed
Growing herbs from seed is a wonderful way to always have fresh herbs on hand.
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Growing Herbs from Seed; Buying and Planting Plants
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Herb Highlights
Start making a list of herb seeds or plants for the new season if you haven't already done so. Here are a few highlights to add to your list.
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Online Herb Seed Sources
Ordering herb seeds online is convenient, a great alternative to the traditional mail ordering of the past.
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Saving Herb Seeds
Don't overlook the bounty that can be harvested from herb seeds! How to harvest and store seeds.
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5 Herbs Grown for Both Their Leaves and Seeds
Many people are getting back to the earth, growing their own food, and that includes growing herbs to use when you cook what you grow.
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Elementary Mother's Day Activity
Mother's Day is coming! Help your students create beautiful and useful gifts for the most important woman in their lives.
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Gifts for Gardeners and Herb Lovers
It is that time of year when our thoughts turn to holiday shopping. If you are looking for gardening gifts and things for herb lovers, here are a few ideas.
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Growing Herbs From Seed
Gardening is fun. That's why we do it. During the winter, gardeners like to keep busy with indoor gardening projects. Savvy gardeners have learned to use this time to start their own seed indoors.
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Reduce your Grocery Shopping Bill
Save money week after week with these tips to slash your food costs. Eat well and healthily while sparing your wallet!
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The Aquatic Herb Garden
These water garden plants are both edible and unique. Grow these herbs to add flavor to a pond or wetland garden or expand a vegetable patch.
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Top 10 Herb Garden Catalogs
Here are recommendations for 10 of the top catalogs that every herb enthusiast should have a copy of.
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Science Technology Lesson Plan
Students create their own "virtual garden" in the classroom and share it with others in the cyber community. Learn how to set up your own classroom project in this article.
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A Medicinal Herb Garden
A medicinal herb garden was a colonial home remedy necessity. Now, we grow them as much for beauty. Read about a cold remedy, sore throat, & acne remedy etc.
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Arm Chair Shopping for Gardeners
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Container Kitchen Herb Garden
It's easy to grow a container herb garden with kitchen herbs that you frequently use. But to be successful, you must know the basics of what herbs need to thrive.
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Herb Gardening for Beginners
Grow herbs for their fragrance, to make a lawn, to attract bees, for salads, or to make into tea. Find out which ones to choose, and the best places to plant them.
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How to Grow a Summer Italian Herb Garden
Fresh herbs add zest and flavor to everyday cooking. These five common Italian herbs will add color to your summer garden and zest to your cooking.
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Kitchen Herb Garden Plants
Herbs are easy to grow and great to have fresh on hand. Here is the information you need to cultivate a healthy batch of culinary herbs.
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Planting a Container Herb Garden
A container herb garden can be more than functional. It can be beautiful! Here are the plant height ranges and the recommended planting layout for a pot of kitchen herbs.
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Review – Starting Out with Herbs by M Roberts
This comprehensive guide to growing and using herbs offers home gardeners information on 60 common herbs, their cultivation and culinary, medicinal and domestic uses.
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Send an Herbal Valentine
Capture the hearts of those dearest to you with an herbal Valentine from the garden.
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The Joy of Seed Cataloques - On-line!
The growing attraction to mail-order seed houses? Variety - everything and anything can be mail ordered: from nut tree seedlings and heritage wildflowers to shiitake mushroom spawn and blue potatoes. On-line shopping provides you with a vast and diverse selection of seeds. Let your imagination run wild as you plan next years garden this winter.
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National Garden Mail Order Month
As the winter dreariness descends, it's time for gardeners to cheer things up by ordering some colorful and uplifting garden mail order catalogues.
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Quick Companions In The Garden
Companion planting herbs among the vegetables the grow best with.
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Quick Companions In The Garden
Companion planting herbs with the vegetables they compliment in the kitchen.
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Be Your Own Herbal Expert - Part 5
In this fifth session of the Be Your Own Herbal Expert series, we will find out how to help ourselves and our families with herbal vinegars, one of the green blessings of the Wise Woman Way.
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A Renaissance Herbal II
Here's part two of the Medieval and Renaissance Herbal. These herbs were particularly useful for healing everything from bloody noses to insanity. Some are still in use today
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Dyeing:Lady's Bedstraw
Lady's Bedstraw is a common weed in much of North America. It was orignally brought to the Americas for cheese production and cloth dyeing. It produces a nice bright red much like madder root a plant relative. Try it in your dyeing experiments!
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Lady's Bedstraw
A very winter hardy natural dye plant similar to madder is Lady's Bedstraw. Here is a brief artile on its history and use.
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UPDATED: Favourite Seed Companies
A short review of some of my favourite seed companies, now all online. Updated to include the web address of the indispensable JL Hudson company URL among others.
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Affordable and Easy DIY Easter Decorating Tips
Getting prepared for Easter can be stressful if you're busy with work and family commitments. Here are some easy and affordable DIY decorating ideas to help you cope.
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Cold Frame for March Days
One accessory for the garden which can be invaluable is the cold frame.
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Cooking with Essential Oils
Essential oils make a great addition to drinks, sauces, stews, dressings, and desserts. Try lavender lemonade or peppermint brownies for a fun twist on a classic.
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Cooking with Potatoes
Often considered an everyday food article, potatoes have provided the basis for some of the world's classic dishes. They can be treated in many different ways.
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Embellishing Through Recycling
In this article I would like to share different ways that you can recycle items in your home to create one of kind projects that you can be proud of. Cutting costs is important to us all and in computer crafting it is possible to do that and amaze your friends and family. I am also including simple directions for creating wallpaper envelopes and a web site that has some excellent pictures and suggestions for combining computer crafting with other forms of crafting.
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Herbology - Gathering and Storing Herbs
Herbs have many uses. The main uses being for medicinal purposes, and in cooking. It is important to know how to gather and store them correctly.
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How to Organize Vegetable Seeds
Organizing a seed collection on an annual basis will ensure none of the precious varieties of edible flowers and vegetables are lost.
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Indoor Herb Gardens
Grow fresh herbs all winter!
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Plant an Indoor Herb Garden
Fresh herbs are expensive at the grocery store and often require purchasing much more than is needed. Plan to grow your own herbs indoors this winter.
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Preparing the Herb Garden for Winter
Find out how to prepare herb gardens to survive till spring in cold-winter climates.
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Refreshing Homemade Treatments for Summer Skin
Try these natural and aromatic homemade treatments this summer to clean, exfoliate, moisturize, tone and refresh many different skin types.
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The Kitchen Herb Garden
In continuing the early gardens articles, this time we look at the Kitchen Herb Garden.
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A COMMUNITY OF GARDENERS
Gardeners help to build strong communities. Here's how gardeners can make a difference in community life.
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Chervil
This aromatic annual herb's seeds were found in a basket in King Tut's tomb!
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Essential Oils Fight Cold and Flu
Herb & plant oils are some of the oldest medicines. Oregano, lemon, cinnamon, frankincense, peppermint & eucalyptus oils are well known & effective against cold and flu.
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FAMILY FUN WITH HERBS
Gardening is a family activity. Herbs are the perfect plants to introduce your child to gardening.
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Herbs in the News
As we look ahead to fall in the garden, here's a roundup of herb-related news.
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My Favorite Home Remedies (Part II/Oregano)
We've all enjoyed the fabulous taste of Oregano, but are you familiar with its healing properties?
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