Every homestead needs a great herb garden! The good news is many herbs are easy to grow and can even happily grow in containers for the space challenged homesteader. The hardest part is deciding which herbs to grow! The first thing you need to determine is your growing zone to make sure your new herbs […]
How to Grow, Preserve and Use Basil
Basil tends to be one of the most popular herbs to grow during the warm summer months. When planning out my raised-bed garden this year, I made sure to reserve space for multiple basil plants. It has a variety of culinary uses and can also be used in homemade natural cleaning products like this All-Purpose […]
Sweet Basil. All you need to know to grow it.
Sweet Basil is an easy, straight forward plant to grow. In this blog you will find all the things you need to know for planning, companion planting, use and storage of Sweet Basil. It also provides you with information about the type of soil it needs and the pH it will grow in. One place […]
Medicinal Uses for Chamomile
Most of us are familiar with chamomile as a tea option along with peppermint, black and green tea. Chamomile has many more uses though from helping teething toddler and their distressed mothers to be an herb that is useful for skin ailments along with digestive troubles. Check out this blog post on the many ways […]
4 helpful ways of Drying Basil
Basil is a great herb used in so many different dishes. It’s also beneficial to your health. Lets face it though, buying herbs from the supermarket is not always cost effective. So today, in this post, learn 4 way of drying basil. You can grow basil for pennies on the dollar and drying a great […]
9 Herbs that want to take over your garden
I really love growing herbs. Nothing beats freshly harvested herbs to really perk up a homemade meal. I grow about 20 different herbs every year for both food and medicine. While some herbs have given me a really hard time getting them to grow (I’m looking at you white sage!) other herbs, have gotten completely […]
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