Herbs can be grown in an herb garden, vegetable garden, flowerbed, and even in containers. Here are seven easy herbs to start from seed, plus tips for growing herbs. Fresh herbs add delightful flavor and fragrance to foods. You can’t get any fresher than snipping leaves and springs from...
For cooking, you can snip off fresh leaves and stems to add some extra zip to all sorts of dishes, including soups, stews, sauces, and salads. You can also dry thyme by itself or combine it with other herbs like basil and rosemary to flavor herb-infused oils, vinegar, or butter. The...
Providing sufficient light is perhaps the biggest challenge when starting seeds indoors. Most types of vegetables, flowers, and herbs need plenty of light to form strong, stocky seedlings. Relying on natural sunlight from a window can be a challenge, especially for those who live in Northern clim...
A method for growing herbs includes planting a herb and allowing the herb to germinate, becoming a herb seedling and either transplanting to or maintaining the herb seedling in a restrictive container, where the herb seedling is held for a predetermined period of time before transplanting the herb...
Growing Valerian from Seedlings Growing herbs outsideafter they reach the seedling stage is easy to do. Regular garden soil is fine, but if you need to amend the soil, do so with compost or well-aged manure. Valerian likes a very moist, well-drained soil. ...
A How-to Guide: Companion Planting with Herbs Planting How to Plant Sage Plant sage in full sun. Sage should be planted in well-draining soil; it won’t tolerate sitting in wet soil. The easiest and best way to start sage is from a small plant. Set the plants 2 feet apart. ...
Microgreens are typically grown from seeds rather than cuttings. While it is possible to regrow some leafy greens like lettuce or herbs from cuttings, microgreens are generally not propagated in the same way. Wondering how to grow microgreens from seeds? Don’t know how to grow microgreens in ...
Categories Garden Tips, gardens, Herbs, saving seeds, seeds, tomatoes, vegetable gardening Tags basil, coreopsis, rudbeckia, tomatoes, Woodle Orange About The Tasmanian Chocolate Tomato August 20, 2019 by Dave This year one of the tomato varieties I decided to grow was the ‘Tasmanian Chocolate...
Peter and his wife, on plot 6, have been growing some rather exotic vegetables and herbs on their plot, one of which is lemongrass. Each time I walk to the orchard plot I pass plot 6 and admire the lemongrass. Lemongrass enjoys warm temperatures so now that autumn has arrived Peter has...
Many herbs are easy to grow from seed, but the problem is that you will have WAY more plants than you need if you start with seeds. For about the same price as a packet of seeds, you can buy a seedling and will be able to harvest much more quickly. If you grow from seeds, you...