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How to Grow Lemon Balm
Lemon balm is a perennial herb that is easy to grow and has many household uses.
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Lemon Balm in Autoimmune Diseases
Lemon balm, a member of the mint family, is used to relieve symptoms and promote immune system health in patients with autoimmune disease.
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Sweet Melissa
What did the Prince of Glamorgan, King Charles V and the 17th century Carmelite nuns share in common? The spirit of melissa of course.
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How To Use Lemon Balm
A member of the mint family, the herb known as Lemon Balm is also called Sweet Melissa. This plant is a hardy perennial herb, important in bee pollination.
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Sweet Melissa Part II
Culinary treats featuring lemon balm.
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Two Herbs for Shady Gardens: Lemon Balm and Anise Hyssop
What to grow in a partially shaded areas that will delight with both taste and fragrance? Recipes and sources for two delightful herbs, Lemon Balm and Anise Hyssop.
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Herbs For Your Container Garden
Herbs come in a variety of shapes, sizes and scents and most are perfectly suited to growing in a container.
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Live Happy, Live Long
Maybe appreciation of butter and wine is better for you than guilt and hectic work? Recipes for Cream-Of-Almost-Anything-Soup and Herbal Infused Wines
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Tea in the Garden
Create your own tea garden with the many easy-to-grow herbs perfect for containers.
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Herbs for Sleep
Many plants have sedative or otherwise sleep-inducing properties that can help with both falling asleep and staying asleep, usually with very few side effects.
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Melissa Essential Oil
Melissa, also known as Lemon Balm, is frequently adulterated in aromatherapy; however, true Melissa has been used traditionally and therapeutically for centuries.
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Strawberry Scones
These biscuit-like scones have all the flavors of spring: fresh strawberries and lemon balm.
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A Home for Herbs
Fresh herbs dried at home are incomparably better than store bought dried herbs! Some practical how-to's and a tangent or two on the delights of home-dried herbs.
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A Thyme to Remember
Have you got time for thyme in your cooking? Use this petite herb in a frosty <b>Lemon-Thyme Granita</b> and a light, side-dish salad <b>Capellini with Tomatoes, Watercress, and Herbs</b>.
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Cooking with Thyme
Have you got time for thyme in your cooking? Use this herb in a frosty Lemon-Thyme Granita and a light, side-dish salad Capellini with Tomatoes, Watercress, and Herbs.
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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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Making Herbal Vinegars
Easy recipes for making herbal vinegars from fresh or dried herbs. Caution: herbal crafts and recipes can be addictive!
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Soothing Teas Combat Stress and Restore Serenity
Soothing teas ease tension and anxiety. Herbal beverages are stress busters, a boon to those who are on the fast track.
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The Green Guide to Herb Gardening
A review of the book "The Green Guide to Herb Gardening" by Deborah C. Harding.
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Growing Herbs in Containers: Light, Life Cycles, & Propagation
Lists of herbs that can be grown in containers, with info about their light needs, life cycles, and best methods of propagation.
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Herbal Theme Container Gardens
Grouping herbs together which will be used in a certain favorite dish is not only practical, but would make a fabulous gift.
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Herbal Teas
Herb Gardening is a bi-weekly column on growing, harvesting herbs; culinary, medicinal and crafting uses. This week's article: herbal teas.
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Homestead On The Road: Farmers Markets
Exploring farmer's markets, supplementing what grows in your garden, what's in season when (best prices and flavor), recipes for enjoying and for preserving the bounty.
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Be Your Own Herbal Expert - Part 4
Continuing the Be Your Own Herbal Expert series, this article looks at making tinctures.
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Harvesting Herbs
Herb Gardening is a bi-weekly column on growing, harvesting herbs; culinary, medicinal and crafting uses. This weeks article is about harvesting and storing herbs.
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Mints
Suite101 column description: Herb Gardening is a bi-weekly column on growing, harvesting herbs; culinary, medicinal and crafting uses.
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Bold and Beautiful Herbs
Mention foliage plants, and the things that usually come to mind are hostas and ferns. That's a shame. Many herbs have bold and beautiful foliage.
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Citrus Plant & Herb Themed Garden
Learn how to use citrus trees and citrus scented herbs such as lemon balm, lime balm and mint to create a citrus theme garden.
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Frozen Mango Yoghurt
A refreshing dessert.
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GARDENING ON THE EDGE
Gardening on slopes can be a challenge. Often, it seems as if gardening books are written for flat areas. Here are some ideas based on my own experiences of gardening in hill country.
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Heady Scents of Summer
How is your garden's attar? Attar is a Persian word meaning smell. The heady scents of summer are now all around us, time to explore the delicious intoxicating fragrances of mid summer. Scents are the souls of flowers and are the very essence of the garden.
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Herb Glossary: Lavender to Oregano
These plants have a myriad of medicinal, culinary and decorative uses, several of which are detailed here.
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Herbal Shoulder Pillows
How to make herbal shoulder bags for instant stress relief.
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Herbal Skin Care Solutions
They say when you look good you feel good, but when we talk about natural health, we tend to ignore the largest single organ in the body...our skin. Especially the face, which is exposed daily to dozens of harmful effects, from sunlight to pollution. It is certainly worth a little healthy focus...read on to find some ways to look and feel better, naturally!
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Herbs for the Shade: Annual and Perennial Plants that Thrive Without Sun
Consider herbs for those shady spots in the garden. Over fifty per cent of the ten most popular culinary herbs will grow in part shade.
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Lemon Basil French Toast
Enjoy this variation of a classic breakfast food flavored with fresh, lemon-scented herbs.
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Monarda, Wildflowers Gardeners Invite In
I had no qualms when it came to “inviting’ wildflowers into the garden. It was all fair game in my yard. Other gardeners are not so enthusiastic, and many wildflowers are considered to be nothing more than backyard pests. The enemy. Weeds. A few wildflowers, however, are so lovely their, ahem, pedigree is overlooked, and soil is eagerly turned for them somewhere in the flower bed. Varieties of Monarda, for example.
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Natural Herbs for Your Medicine Cabinet
What's in your medicine cabinet? Is it filled with drugs prescribed by doctors, or a variety of over-the-counter medications? Try replacing some of these with some of the natural herbs for the more common ailments we encounter. Herbs have long been used for easing pain and discomfort and they still work today.
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Thanksgiving Feast for Vegetarians
Seven recipes for creating a dairy-free, vegetarian meal.
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The Mint Family
Of the culinary herbs, ten of these are the most commonly grown. For the most part, these tend to be members of the Mint family. Worldwide, there are around a hundred genera and some three thousand species within this family.
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The Wonders of the Herbal Bath
Throughout history it is easy to see the importance various cultures placed on the ritual of the bath. Baths can sooth and relax, or refresh and stimulate. They can ease the body, and calm the mind. The ‘wholistic’ practitioner knows the importance of bringing together mind, body and spirit in the tranquil, centered atmosphere of the bath...and knows that when this power is combined with the natural powers of herbs, we can quite literally wash our physical and emotional troubles away.
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Valerian
Valerian is a great remedy for insomnia, restlessness and anxiety.
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Baked Eggs over Focaccia
Eggs, cheese and bacon are baked right in focaccia bread for an easy, savory breakfast that looks as good as it tastes.
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Grow Herbs Indoors
Growing an indoor herb garden can be an easy way to have fresh herbs year round. Lavender, rosemary, chives and aloe vera are easy and fun to grow as houseplants.
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Natural Remedies for Cold Sores
Help suppress the Herpes Simplex 1 virus with food, herbs and supplements
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Safe Sunscreens and Bug Repellents for Summer
Summer is on the way! Worried about the chemicals in sunscreens and bug repellents? Keep your kids safe with these healthy and effective versions of necessary summer safety products!
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The Herb Garden
Plant a herb garden for a variety of goodies to use in your dried craft projects
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Choosing Perennial Herbs
Make sure to leave the nursery with the plants you want to grow year after year. Perennials will grow for many years in the garden without having to replant.
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Companion Planting-Healthy Garden
You don't need chemicals to create a healthy garden. Just plant certain vegetables and herbs near others that are friendly toward each other.
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Flowers and Herbs for Halloween
Old fashioned cures, remedies, protections, amulets and charms from your herb and flower garden to make your Halloween trick or treat night a safe, relaxing experience.
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