Herb Gardening

You may be growing herbs for culinary reasons – to be able to walk out your door and pick fresh, flavorful herbs for your daily meals. You may be growing herbs for medicinal reasons – to take control of your health naturally. You may be growing herbs to add variety to your tea repertoire. These wonderful flavors add spice and interest to your morning tea. You may even make your own herbal tea blends.

You are certainly growing herbs for their beauty. They definitely have a place in every garden. Larger herbs can add interest to your landscape (think – laurel, rosemary or sage). Most herbs adapt nicely to container gardening, so even if you have limited space, you can still have fresh herbs available.

Growing herbs will certainly save you money. They take minimal care and most don’t even like to be fertilized much.

Explore the posts found at PreparednessMama and gain a love of herbs for yourself.

They really are amazing!

A culinary herb garden might include these plants:

• // calendula,     / dill,     // coriander,
• // fennel,     // sweet basil,     // sweet marjoram,
• // oregano,     // curly and flat leaf parsley, // rosemary,
• // sage,     // savory,     // tarragon and     // thyme.

Learn How to Grow and Use Herbs

These posts will get you started growing, using and preserving herbs in your home. Check back often, We love to write about how herbs are useful plants around your home garden.

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Essential Herbs Series – Herb Blogger Roundup

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Calendula Herbal Recipes for Health & Gifts

Today I’m making lemon verbena simple syrup as a quick way to preserve my harvest.  Lemon verbena is my favorite ...
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Lemon Verbena Simple Syrup

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DIY Liquid Herbal Bath Soap

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How to Dehydrate Cilantro for a Steady Supply

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How to Make Stevia Syrup

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How to Make Infused Vinegar

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Mint, Calendula, & Plantain Herbal Bath Salts

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 A healthy and quick alternative to store bought cubes When cold weather hits and you are expecting the first freezing ...
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DIY Herb Saute Cubes

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Herbs to Know: Sage

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Another tasty member of the mint family. Lemon Balm came from the mountainous regions of southern Europe and has long been ...
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Herbs to Know Lemon Balm

Plantain can be your friend and not just a weed. I treasure the healing properties of plantain so much I’m ...
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Herbs to Know: Plantain

Rosemary Hair Rinse & Rosemary Vinegar Rosemary is one of those easy herbs. It is easy to grow, easy to ...
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How to Grow, Harvest & Use Rosemary

Get an herbal jump on cold & flu season Herbal cold remedy recipes have been used for hundreds of years ...
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5 DIY Cold Remedy Recipes

Lifesaving Herbs, Essential Oils and Natural Remedies for When There is No Doctor The other day my husband cut himself ...
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Prepper’s Natural Medicine by Cat Ellis

I have discovered the wonderful properties of the moringa oleifera plant. I was not able to grow it in my ...
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Grow Moringa from Bare Root Stock

An underused kitchen tool. I have a new tool in my kitchen. A tool for mashing and grinding, or as ...
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Learn to Use a Mortar and Pestle

These three methods to preserve herbs in salt are so easy you will never want to buy herbed salt again! I'm ...
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3 Ways to Preserve Herbs in Salt

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The Essential Herbs Series: Rosemary to Yarrow

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The Essential Herbs Series: Lemon Verbena to Plantain

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3 Ways to Preserve Your Basil Harvest

 Number 6-10 of the 20 Must Have Herbs for Every Garden Thanks for joining us this is week 2 of the ...
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The Essential Herbs Series: Comfrey to Lemon Balm

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The Essential Herbs Series: Aloe to Chives

It's all in the leaves. I consider aloe to be one of the essential herbs to have in your home ...
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Growing and Using Aloe Vera

Extend the shelf life of fresh herbs Have you ever purchased a bunch of cilantro or parsley, only to have ...
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How Do I Store That? Fresh Herbs

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Francois et Mimi Stainless Steel French Coffee Press Many thanks to L&K, Inc. for providing the French Coffee Press used ...
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14 {Other} Ways to Use a French Coffee Press

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How Do I Store That? Dried Herbs

An Herbal Recipe Round-up Every first aid kit needs supplies to keep you safe and healthy. In the past, I ...
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7 Must Have Herbal Remedies for Your 72-Hour Kit

The New American Herbal by Stephen Orr I have a “thing” for herb books. There are probably twenty of them ...
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The New American Herbal: A Review

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How to Propagate Herbs from Cuttings

If you have to pick one herb for your garden, choose lavender. There are many types of lavender. I like ...
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5 Useful (and fun) Things to Do With Your Lavender Harvest

Use the bounty from your garden to make herb infused oils I’m sharing one of my favorite basic herb skills ...
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What will I do with all that mint? I recently divided all my mint plants into new containers. It looks ...
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Growing and Using Comfrey Herbalists throughout the ages have placed comfrey high on their list of useful plants. It has ...
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Witch Hazel is such a wonderful addition to your medicine cabinet. It is beneficial for all skin types and can ...
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The Joys of Dehydrating Herbs: Five Methods to Try I have an old dehydrator that I love. I purchased it ...
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5 Ways to Dehydrate Herbs

5 Herbal Remedies to Make Before Cold Season It may still be summer in your part of the world, but ...
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5 Herbal Remedies to Make Before Cold Season

Make Black Walnut Salve to Cure Athletes Foot and Blisters Probably the most useful of the general salves to keep ...
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Black Walnut Salve for Athletes Foot and Blisters

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From Tea to Tincture The unassuming Lemon Verbena plant - have you seen it?  Those long lanceolate leaves don't look like ...
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Growing & Using Lemon Verbena

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Growing and Preserving Versatile Mint

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You might be interested in these Pinterest boards: Growing & Using Herbs and Natural Remedies – Medicinal Magic

Don’t miss The Essential Herbs Series

You will find in-depth ideas for growing, preserving and using each of these herbs
// Week 1 –  1. Aloe, 2. Basil, 3. Calendula, 4. Chamomile, 5. Chives
// Week 2  – 6. Comfrey ,7. Echinacea, 8. Garlic, 9. Lavender, 10. Lemon Balm
// Week 3  – 11. Lemon Verbena, 12. Lovage, 13. Mint, 14. Oregano, 15. Plantain
// Week 4 – 16. Rosemary, 17. Sage, 18. Stevia, 19. Thyme, 20. Yarrow

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Other gardening pages at PreparednessMama:

Gardening for Food Production – What’s your Garden Style? – Tips, Tricks, Sprays & Brews (DIY Gardening) – Growing Herbs –  Get Growing – Composting & Soil Building