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Growing Herbs in the Home Garden Herb gardens were almost an essential feature of pioneer homes. They were placed in sunny corners near the house to be readily available to the busy homemaker. As the population of the new country grew, people from many nations brought herbs with them. This resulted in an exchange of slips, seeds, and plants. Many herbs familiar to settlers from other countries were found growing wild in the new country. These included parsley, anise, pennyroyal, sorrel, watercress, liverwort, wild leeks, and lavender. American Indians knew uses for almost every wild, nonpoisonous plant, but they used the plants chiefly for domestic purposes -- tanning and dyeing leather and eating.

Growing Herbs Indoors Plucking a few leaves of oregano from a nearby windowsill can warm a gardener's heart--and the spaghetti sauce--on a winter day. Host John Cretti welcomes culinary herbalist Karin Winans, who shows how to grow herbs that thrive in an indoor environment. See also:

Growing Herbs in the Home Garden Little wonder that herbs have earned a place in American gardens. Freshly harvested herbs have pungent and aromatic qualities that far exceed those of their commercially obtained counterparts--whether fresh or dried. Even after the outdoor growing season is over, you can still enjoy dried herbs in fragrant potpourris and sachets. You can also grow herbs indoors in pots on sunny windowsills, and use them for culinary purposes, either fresh, dried, or frozen.

Setting Up A Hydroponic Herb Garden-- The Glass is Too Big I’ve been intrigued by hydroponic gardening for quite a while. It eliminates many of the things that bug me about regular gardening: working at ground level, working outside, weeds, dirt, etc. Beyond that, it appeals to my geeky side.

Growing, Harvesting, and Using Culinary Herbs in the Home Garden ... Herbs are various kinds of herbaceous plants whose fresh or dried parts are used to season foods, provide fragrances, supply natural dyes, or make industrial or pharmaceutical products. Culinary herbs are ones which fresh or dried leaves are used in cooking. Some of the common culinary herbs are basil, French tarragon, rosemary, and thyme. {Link recovered and archived OnSite 12/7/11}

Gardening Herbs For All Ages Man has cultivated herb gardens for thousands of years. They have provided landscaping, served ornamental purposes, have lent their aromatic fragrances to perfumes and potpourris, and have delighted the taste buds of food connoisseurs. With their ease of use and ability for even the novice gardener to successfully grow them, herb gardens are the perfect choice for everyone. They may be grown year round with indoor containers. Parents can expose children to the wonders of plant life with a simple herb garden while the master botanist may specialize in growing herb varieties. From the beginner to advanced gardener, people of all ages can enjoy herb gardening.

Herbs: Fragrance, flavour and fun for container gardens "For a new adventure with your balcony or windowsill Eden, try planting an old-fashioned herb garden." by Mary Fran McQuade

Tips for growing a herb garden in a small space - Home & Garden ... Growing herbs for your favorite dishes is easy, even if you have limited garden area. Garden designer P. Allen Smith explains how to create simple herb containers ideal for small spaces.

Growing for the Medicinal Herb Market | Selected Sources and Resources

Winterizing the Herb Garden If treated properly, many herb plants will survive in the garden for a number of years. Others are sensitive to frost or severe cold weather and must be brought indoors, protected, or replanted each year. Annual herbs will be killed with the first hard frost in the fall. Remove dead plants in order to minimize overwintering insects and disease problems. Some frost sensitive herbs, such as basil and geranium, can be brought indoors for the winter. Take cuttings to root or pot the entire plant.

Home Gardening: Herbs Growing these versatile plants in our Southern climate can be a challenge. The keys to success with herbs is plant selection and site preparation. Although our climate makes it difficult to grow some herbs, there are many that we can grow very successfully. We just have to select the right ones! You can harvest armloads of basil, lemon balm, Texas tarragon, (Tagetes lucida), catnip, German chamomile, Spanish Lavender (Lavandula stoechas), chives, mints, and many others. These herbs thrive in our part of the South.

Windowsill Herb Gardening  You can grow almost any herb on a windowsill, as long as you trim the plants often to keep them nice and bushy and compact. But some herbs are especially suited to windowsill growing, says Louise Hyde of Well-Sweep Herb Farm in Port Murray, New Jersey.

Growing Herbs [PDF] Records show that herb use can be traced back to the ancient Egyptians and Chinese. References in the Bible and documents from medieval monasteries show that herbs were used by most households, including those of wealthy lords and monks.

Salt Everything you could possibly want to know about salt - and more. Truly fascinating site with some surprising links to even more helpful and informative sites.

Harvesting/Preserving for the Home Gardener Herbs should be harvested when the oils responsible for flavor and aroma are at their peak. Proper timing depends on the plant part you are harvesting and the intended use. Herbs grown for their foliage should be harvested before they flower. While chives are quite attractive in bloom, flowering can cause the foliage to develop an off-flavor. Harvest herbs grown for seeds as the seed pods change in color from green to brown to gray but before they shatter (open). Collect herb flowers, such as borage and chamomile, just before full flower. Harvest herb roots, such as bloodroot, chicory, ginseng, and goldenseal, in the fall after the foliage fades.

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Everything Garlic - Main Page This page answers ALL the questions you might have about garlic.

Spices and Herbs for the Home Garden. Under New Mexico conditions, an area 10 ft x 12 ft will provide ample space for an herb garden for an average-sized family. It is wise to keep perennials and biennials on one side of the garden and keep annuals, which must be replanted each year, on the other side.

Spice Library Need to know more about spices? Step into where you can find a plethora of information on spices. Here you can find any information you always wanted to know about spices and much more.

CNN - Herbs and Spices CNN presents a colorful chart listing the source and best uses for many popular condiments.

An "A-Y" directory of Herbs. From Penn St.Univ. This directory lists the herbs with a history of it’s name, a slew of planting, cultivating & propagating info, and companion planting info. For some reason, it’s all on the right side of the screen. I assume this is for future photos of each plant. If you want to see pictures now, check out the next entry -

A Modern Herbal Index (A-Z). Very Extensive online listings. 800+ plants, by common names (mostly), but lite on graphics. Very fast with pretty good info.

Ref. Guide for Herbs. Not comprehensive, but interesting enough.

Sprout Production Bean, alfalfa, or broccoli sprouts, and other vegetable sprouts grown for food purposes, are simply miniature plants, harvested just after seed germination. Production practices are those techniques that provide the optimum germination conditions, moisture, temperature and oxygen in an environment that allows the "harvest" of the sprouts at their optimum eating quality, while at the same time allowing efficient cleaning and packaging. This guide discusses primarily the production of bean sprouts, but the principles of bean sprout production described below may be applied to other sprout crops.

"Sprouting At Home" Fresh organic veggies every day from a square foot of counter space. Excellent article by Jim Mumm

Sprout Nutrition & Sprout Recipes

Questions Keep Sprouting About Sprouts Sprouts, which are the germinating form of seeds and beans, are easy to produce. They require no soil, only water and cool temperatures. They emerge in two to seven days, depending on the type of seed or bean. In addition to raw alfalfa sprouts, other varieties include clover, sunflower, broccoli, mustard, radish, garlic, dill, and pumpkin, as well as various beans, such as mung, kidney, pinto, navy and soy, and wheat berries. Many are sold individually, some in mixtures.

Growing and Using Sprouts Sprouts are great to eat for everyday living and especially so in an emergency situation. Typical foods set aside for storage are traditionally low or nonexistent in vitamin C and many of the B vitamins. Yet it is exciting to know the seeds from those same storage foods can be sprouted to give a rich source of these important nutrients. Sprouts are an excellent source of vitamin C and also contain many good B vitamins. And you probably won't find a less expensive way to get these vitamins than from low calorie sprouts. Green leafy sprouts are also a good source of vitamin A. Sprouts are a good source of fiber, protein, and contain enzymes that aid digestion. In addition, sprouting destroys the seed's natural preservative enzymes that inhibit digestion.

Bean Sprouts and Other Vegetable Seed Sprouts Sprouts from mung bean (Phaseolus aureus) been used for food since ancient times. These sprouts have nutrient value similar to asparagus and mushroom, which contain high quantities of Vitamin A. Sprouts can be canned or frozen in addition to eating them fresh. Mung bean seeds can be purchased from mail-order commercial seed companies and health food chain stores. (Caution: Regardless of the source, do not use seeds that have been treated with a fungicide. Treated seeds are not edible and can be recognized by the coating of pink or green dust on the seed coat.)

Texas Mungbeans Have Sprout Potential Texsprout is an improved mungbean bred in Asia. It was selected and developed at several locations in the U.S. from 1980 to 1988 by Dr. Creighton Miller, Texas Agricultural Experiment Station professor of horticulture and genetics, and other scientists.

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