Authentic Mexican flavours – spice up your cooking with home-grown herbs
By Madeleine Giddens
With just a little care and attention, you can grow some of the herbs needed for Mexican cooking in your backyard. A collection of just four easy-to-grow herbs, two that will be very familiar and two that are less well-known, can bring an authentic Mexican note to meals throughout the growing season.
Gourmet Herbs - How To Grow The Tastiest Perennial Herbs In Your Garden
By Madeleine Giddens
Every keen cook or budding gourmet knows that the right combination of herbs can make or break a meal. Most herbs are at their best when they're ultra-fresh. Growing your own can give you a year-round supply of the tastiest herbs at a fraction of the cost of buying them at the grocery store, but how do you keep your herb plants at peak performance?
Cooking With Herbs
By Glory Lennon
Common herbs and their uses in cooking.
Catnip
By Glory Lennon
An introduction to the feline marijuana known as Catnip which isn't just for your Kitty anymore.
Growing tips and uses for herbs
By Rex Trulove
Why should a person grow herbs, what are they useful for, and how do you grow them? Here are some helpful tips.
The Herb Burdock
By Agnes Farside
Burdock is an excellent healing herb for skin problems, including eczema, psoriasis, boils, herpes, and acne.
The Herb Coltsfoot
By Agnes Farside
Easy to grow from seeds, coltsfoot does well in almost any kind of soil but prefers soil with a high clay content. An herb group I belong to once grew this in a shared herb garden and I was amazed at how much its leaves do resemble that of a colt’s foot.
The Herb Catnip
By Agnes Farside
I planted catnip one year and it did great until the neighborhood cats found it and decided it was the next best thing to cat heaven.
The Herb Dill
By Agnes Farside
Similar looking to fennel only smaller, dill has been used for its medicinal properties; but is more commonly used in food dishes.
The Herb Red Clover
By Agnes Farside
ed clovers nutrient content includes calcium, magnesium, niacin, potassium, thiamine, and vitamin C.