"Garden Herbs
you can grow around the house!"

Growing garden herbs around the house will enrich your life. Once established, you'll wonder how you ever managed without the herb garden!
Be imaginative with your herbs and position them all over the garden, by the back door, on the windowsills. Wherever you can find a reasonable place, plant a herb or two! Let your imagination run free with some herby recipes for the family. You'll get loads of Brownie points!

Growing Herbs:

Growing herbs is a pastime everyone can enjoy. It's practical, inexpensive and, as well as earning lots of Brownie points in the kitchen, this magical hobby can even help ward off colds and flu!

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Christmas Herbs:

Growing Christmas herbs in July really is worth thinking about. At least when it comes to Christmas present shopping, some gifts will already be taken care of... less stress emotionally, physically and financially!

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Aloe Vera:

Aloe vera has become very popular in recent years and is available in the form of ready grown plants from many garden suppliers. Plants should be kept on a sunny windowsill and kept indoors for most of the year. During warm summer months, pots can be put outside during the day. This page is an extract from Herb Gardening.

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Basil:

Basil needs warm humid conditions to grow, but in colder climates it can be successfully grown indoors. Basil will do well in a sheltered spot with your other garden herbs.

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Bay:

Growing bay in your herb garden is possible, the own problem is that bay is a tree and will grow to around 30ft in height if left to it's own devices and in ideal conditions.

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Borage:

Borage likes a sunny position with a well drained soil. Said to overwhelm the heart with gladness, Borage will self seed freely once established, and will overwhelm your garden if not controlled.

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Chives:

Chives should be grown in a sunny position and kept watered. Grow in a pot in the house for continuous use during the winter months. Chives are garden herbs at their best! Even the flowers are edible!

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Comfrey:

One of the most efficient green manures on the planet. Comfrey should be in every garden. Grows well in shady spots and is easily propogated through root division.

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Coriander:

Fresh spicy flavors all year round from your garden herbs. Plant coriander at regular intervals from spring to autumn in a sunny position. It will over winter in all but the coldest climates. Can also be grown indoors.

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Dill:

Dill is one of the easiest herbs to grow and would make a great first herb for someone who has never grown herbs before.

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Echinacea:

Growing echinacea ( purple coneflowers ) in your garden really could help fight those stubborn colds, and a whole host of other things.

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Fennel:

Growing fennel in your garden is a must for all food lovers. The fennel herb can be added to all sorts of dishes and the fennel bulb can be cooked and eaten as a vegetable.

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Garlic:

Growing garlic in your garden will not only win you lots of brownie points in the kitchen but can also keep colds flus and all sorts of other ailments at bay.

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Horseradish:

Growing horseradish in your garden isn't a specialist project. Anyone can do it, given the right conditions. In fact, once your plants get established, they may take over the whole garden

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Thompson and Morgan, global seed supplier, has a great collection of garden herb seeds for worldwide delivery..create a herb garden indoors and out!

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Lovage:

Growing lovage in your garden couldn't be easier. It is a hardy perennial herb and will come back year after year given the right conditions.

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Mint:

Mint likes partial shade or a sunny site and well drained soil. Can be grown indoors. Mint is one of the easiest garden herbs to grow. Once established, you'll have trouble keeping up with it!

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Oregano:

Oregano likes a sunny spot and will tolerate very dry conditions. Mulch during the colder months to keep your plants going for 3 or 4 years.

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Parsley:

Parsley is probably one of the most well-known garden herbs and likes a rich moist soil and a sunny position. Plant seed from spring to autumn. (Biennial)

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Rosemary:

Growing rosemary in your garden will not only add a distinct flavour to your cooking, but will also stay green throughout the year, and produce pretty blue flowers during the summer months.

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Sage:

Sage likes a light dry well drained soil in full sun. Replace woody plants every four or five years. Cut back after flowering.

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Thyme:

Thyme is a beautiful perennial plant that is useful in the kitchen and in the medicine cabinet! Likes a sunny dry place and is perfect for trailing over stone walls and rockeries.

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Watercress:

Watercress is one of the few herbs you can grow that really does like to be waterlogged. Traditionally grown in streams of running water, watercress can often be found growing wild, although care should be taken when collecting from the wild.

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These are just a few herbs available for the home gardener. Browse through some gardening catalogs and grab a herb book from the library. You'll be amazed at the choice available.

Happy Gardening!

Herbs are becoming recognised more and more as superfoods, as if we didn't know that really! 'Herb Gardening' has been beautifully put together by the publisher (Crowood Press) into a well presented book with full colour photos.

You'll also find gardening advice as well as some ideas on planning a herb garden. Order it now direct from the publisher... Herb Gardening

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