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Grow & Use Herbs

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.

Culinary Herbs at the Herbs are Useful Plants page | PreparrednessMama

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.

An Herb Garden Workhorse Sage is an herb native to the Mediterranean, belonging to the Lamiaceae (mint) family along with ...
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Herbs to Know: Sage. Growing conditions and use | PreparednessMama

Herbs to Know: Sage

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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Preserve the harvest with lemon verbena simple syrup | PreparednessMama

Lemon Verbena Simple Syrup

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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How to make an herb infused oil | PreparednessMama

How to Make an Herb Infused Oil

Preserving Your Harvest - Mint Propagation Tips and Drying Instructions. Mint is a fast-growing perennial herb that multiplies easily from ...
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Tips for growing and preserving mint. Orange Mint - go to the nursery and ruffle some leaves. Find a mint that you love! | PreparednessMama

Growing and Preserving Versatile Mint

The Joys of Dehydrating Herbs: Five Methods to Try I have an old dehydrator that I love. I purchased it ...
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The Joys of Dehydrating Herbs - 5 Methods to try | PreparednessMama

5 Failproof Ways to Dehydrate Herbs

Planting Depth Revealed - You can Successfully Grow Herbs and Vegetables in a 6" (Inches) Pot The versatile 6 inch ...
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Planting Depth – What Can You Grow in a 6″ (Inches) Pot?

Basil and Containers Go Together Basil is one of the most popular herbs to grow for culinary use and you ...
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Basil is one of the most popular herbs to grow for culinary creations and you can easily grow basil in containers. Find out how to get a bumper crop for pesto and cooking | PreparednessMama

Grow a Bumper Crop of Basil in Containers

Honey Onion Syrup for Colds Honey Onion Syrup - finished in jars Syrup is a traditional way to make herbal ...
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Honey Onion Syrup | PreparednessMama

Honey Onion Syrup

If You Have to Pick One Herb for Your Garden, Choose Lavender. There are many types of lavender. I like ...
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8 Useful (and fun) Things to Do With Your Lavender Harvest

What Will I Do With All That Mint? I recently divided all my mint plants into new containers. It looks ...
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Mint is such a versatile herb, no garden should be without it. What are other uses for mint besides tea? You will be surprised how much it really can do | PreparednessMama

You’re Growing How Much Mint? 15+ Versatile Uses for Mint

When assembling your 72 hour emergency kit, you may find that you have some wiggle room to fit additional items, ...
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7 Must have Herbal Remedies for Your 72-Hour Kit: An Herbal Recipe Round-up | PreparednessMama

7 Essential Herbal Remedies for Your 72-Hour Emergency Kit

From Tea to Tincture The unassuming Lemon Verbena plant – have you seen it? Those long, lanceolate leaves don’t look ...
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Lemon Verbena - From tea to Tincture | PreparednessMama

Growing & Using Lemon Verbena

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, use and harvest rosemary | PreparednessMama

How to Grow, Harvest & Use Rosemary

Drying and Storing Your Herbs Is a Great Way to Save Money. You Can Extend Your Harvest When You Learn ...
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Drying and storing your herbs is a great way to save money. You can extend your harvest when you learn to store dried herbs for optimum flavor | PreparednessMama

How Do I Store That? Dried Herbs

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 - I urge you to resist the urge to kill it | PreparednessMama

Plants to Know: Plantain Herb

6 ideas for using your lavender harvestIf you’ve been following us this gardening season, you know I’m not very happy ...
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Preserving the Harvest - Lavender | PreparednessMama

Preserving Your Harvest – How to Harvest Lavender

Growing and Using Comfrey Herbalists throughout the ages have placed comfrey high on their list of useful plants. It has ...
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Growing and using comfrey | PreparednessMama

6 Fantastic Reasons for Growing and Using a Comfrey Plant

Don't Let a Single Tasty Leaf Go to Waste! Basil is arguably one of the most flavorful culinary herbs. Not ...
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How to Preserve Basil: 4 Surefire Methods

You Can Stay Prepared When There Is a Sustainable First Aid Kit in Your Back Yard. Learn the Five Herbs ...
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You can stay prepared when there is a sustainable first aid kit in your back yard. Learn the five herbs to get started and begin to build your kit | PreparednessMama

Grow a Sustainable First Aid Kit

Do you grow stevia in your herb garden? This easy to grow tender perennial will give you years of fresh ...
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Herbs to Know Stevia: This easy to grow tender perennial will give you years of fresh leaves to use in cooking and herbal preparations. | PreparednessMama

Herbs to Know Stevia rebaudiana

Herb Blogger Roundup While researching the Essential Herbs for Every Garden series I ran across many wonderful bloggers. I thought ...
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While researching my Essential Herbs series I ran across many wonderful bloggers. I thought you'd like to meet them too . Herb Blogger Roundup| PreparednessMama

Essential Herbs Series – Herb Blogger Roundup

The Healing Properties of Calendula Officinalis Make It an Excellent Addition to Your Herb Garden. Here Are 6 Calendula Herbal ...
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The healing properties of Calendula officinalis make it an excellent addition to your herb garden. Here are 6 Calendula herbal recipes to try today. | PreparednessMama

Calendula Herbal Recipes for Health & Gifts

My vegetable garden may not have produced very well this year, but the herbs went wild. I've preserved lemon verbena, ...
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DIY Liquid Herbal Bath Soap

It’s been a hot summer in Texas with temperatures at 90° and above for months now. That means that I’ve ...
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Preserve the harvest by Dehydrating Cilantro | PreparednessMama

How to Dehydrate Cilantro for a Steady Supply

DIY Stevia Leaf Uses - Make Syrup and Liquid Extract Stevia is pretty amazing. With winter frost protection you can ...
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How to make stevia syrup - Growing & Preserving DIY Stevia Leaf | PreparednessMama

How to Make Stevia Syrup

Plus Over 20 Ways to Use It in Food, Cleaning, and Herbal Remedies Making infused vinegar is one of the ...
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nfused vinegar for cooking, cleaning & remedies. 24+ recipes included | PreparednessMama

How to Make Infused Vinegar

With Store Bought Soap and Dried Herbs This acne fighting hand-milled soap is a family favorite and has worked well ...
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Hand-milled acne soap is easy to make with store bought soap and dried herbs. You'll be scrubbing up in a few hours | PreparednessMama

Hand-Milled Acne Soap

For a Continuous Supply I love herbs! I always have several plants growing in my garden. At any time, you ...
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How to Dehydrate Herbs

How to Make Your Own Herbal Bath Salts....and Other Homemade Products I collect recipes. Useful recipes for soaps, lotions, creams, ...
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Make your own herbal bath salts with this recipe | PreparednessMama

Mint, Calendula, & Plantain Herbal Bath Salts

Make a Beautiful Windbreak for Your Garden There are few herbs that bring as much delight as lavender. Its sweet ...
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How to plant a lavender hedge for a beautiful garden windbreak | PreparednessMama

Planting a Lavender Hedge

A Healthy and Quick Alternative to Store Bought Cubes When cold weather hits and you are expecting the first freezing ...
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Make your own herb saute cubes from fresh or dried herbs | PreparednessMama

DIY Herb Saute Cubes

You really can hang more than laundry. There's a new toy at my house. I call it a toy but ...
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Ways to use a drying rack | PreparednessMama

Ways to Use a Drying Rack + a Giveaway

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. Another tasty member of the mint family | PreparednessMama

Herbs to Know Lemon Balm

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 herbal cold remedy recipes to make ahead for cold and flu season | PreparednessMama

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: Natural Remedies for When There is No Doctor | PreparednessMama

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 | PreparednessMama

Grow Moringa from Bare Root Stock

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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Preserve basil in salt for up to a year. Just layer fresh basil leaves and sea salt in alternating layers in a canning jar. Cap tightly | PreparednessMama

3 Ways to Preserve Herbs in Salt

Thanks for Joining Us for Week 4 of the Essential Herbs Series Every day we use herbs. They flavor our ...
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The Essential Herbs Series: 20 M ust Have Herbs for Every Garden #16-20 | PreparednessMama

The Essential Herbs Series: Rosemary to Yarrow

Thanks for joining us! This is week 3 of the Essential Herbs Series. I’m sharing my top 20 Must Have Herbs ...
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The Essential Herbs Series. 20 Must Have Herbs for Every Garden. This week it's #11-15 | PreparednessMama

The Essential Herbs Series: Lemon Verbena to Plantain

An Underused Kitchen Tool. I have a new tool in my kitchen. A tool for mashing and grinding, or as ...
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The mortar and pestle may be one of the most unknown kitchen tools areound. It's terrific afor food storage and daily use. Learn to use a mortar and pestle | PreparednessMama

Learn to Use a Mortar and Pestle

 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 - 20 Herbs that everyone should grow in their garden #6-10| PreparednessMama

The Essential Herbs Series: Comfrey to Lemon Balm

Number 1 -5 of the 20 Must Have Herbs for Every Garden Every day we use herbs. They flavor our ...
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20 Essential herbs for every garden #1-5 | PreparednessMama

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. Fortunately, ...
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Growing & Using Aloe Vera for burns, skin irritation and muscle aches | PreparednessMama

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 | PreparednessMama

How Do I Store That? Fresh Herbs

It's a Frugal Way to Make More Plants Are you looking for a way to increase the perennial plant population ...
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Plant Propagation by Layering | PreparednessMama

Plant Propagation by Layering

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} Uses for a French Coffee Press | PreparednessMama

14 {Other} Ways to Use a French Coffee Press

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

The New American Herbal: A Review

Start an Herb Garden for Pennies I just moved to a new part of the country and had to leave ...
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Stem Propagation: New plants in 3 to 4 weeks | PreparednessMama

How to Propagate Herbs from Cuttings

The Many Benefits of Calendula Oil I'm planting a new herb garden at the homestead and relying on all the ...
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There are benefits to using calendula oil in your herbal preparations | PreparednessMama

Growing and Using Calendula – The Benefits of Calendula Oil

Refresh Your Mint Patch at the Beginning of the Growing Season Don't you love mint! I think having a few ...
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Refresh your mint patch | PreparednessMama

Refresh Your Mint Patch

WItch Hazel Is Such a Wonderful Addition to Your Medicine Cabinet. It Is Beneficial for All Skin Types and Can ...
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Witch hazel has many anti-properties that make is a great addition to your first aid supplies | PreparednessMama

The Wonders of Witch Hazel – A Must Have for Your First Aid Preparations

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

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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Apply black walnut salve liberally to athlete's foot and blisters. | PreparednessMama

Black Walnut Salve for Athletes Foot and Blisters

The Prepared Spice Rack: Adding Spice to Life I love to cook, better yet I like to experiment in the ...
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The Spice of Life

The Prepared Spice Rack: Adding Spice to Life

What's Your Garden Style: Container Vegetable Gardening This year my vegetable garden is going to knock it out of the ...
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8 Reasons to try container gardening | PreparednessMama

8 Reasons to Try Container Vegatable Gardening

Herbal Preparation - Fire Cider Vinegar Cold and flu season isn't over yet and it's not too late to make ...
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Fire Cider Vinegar


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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

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