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Windowsill Herb Garden

Windowsill herb gardens are attractive as well as useful. Knowing the basics for setting up a garden on your windowsill will help you get the most out of your small potted herbs. Healthy flavorful meals and teas are only a few weeks away if you get started right now. You will need containers, soil, proper [...]

Tea Herb Gardening

Herbal teas are often brewed from familiar plants you can grow in your garden. Tea herb gardening is no more difficult than growing culinary herbs. To enjoy fresh tea from herbs such as mint, simply dig them up in late summer and grow them in pots indoors under proper lighting. Perennial herbs left to overwinter [...]

Three Keys to Growing a Mini Herb Garden

Three Keys to Growing a Mini Herb Garden
The idea of having tiny versions of every herb at your fingertips is appealing. Pruning and pinching will keep plants compact and bushy, but some herbs are meant to grow three feet tall. A mini herb garden is a collection of herbs grown in a compact space. Confining [...]

Pictures of Herbs

Browse various pictures of herbs in different environments including indoors, outdoors, in pots, in windowsills, closeups, and more.
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Fresh Herb Gardening

Fresh herb gardening brings many benefits to the gardener. You can purchase herbs and spices in jars and cans or purchase them fresh, and consuming fresh herbs is rarely bad for you. But growing them yourself touches corners of your life that buying someone else’s work will not.
Growing your own fresh herbs will save you [...]

Most Productive Herb Garden Designs

When planning the design of your herb garden, you can research what others have done. Dozens of herb garden designs are displayed in books and magazines you can find at garden centers or the library. For productive herb garden design, you will see some common patterns.

Herb gardens are attractive even when scattered and disorganized, but [...]