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.
What’s not to love about lavender? It’s bright, pretty, and practical. Knowing this, you added some lavender to your garden ...
8 Useful (and fun) Things to Do With Your Lavender Harvest
An Herb Garden Workhorse Sage is an herb native to the Mediterranean, belonging to the Lamiaceae (mint) family along with ...
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 ...
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 ...
How to Make an Herb Infused Oil
Growing mint is not exceptionally hard but the greatest challenge is to keep it from taking over your garden ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Honey Onion Syrup
What Will I Do With All That Mint? I recently divided all my mint plants into new containers. It looks ...
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, ...
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 ...
Growing & Using Lemon Verbena
Rosemary Hair Rinse & Rosemary Vinegar Rosemary is one of those easy herbs. It is easy to grow, easy to ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
6 Fantastic Reasons for Growing and Using a Comfrey Plant
There are many ways to preserve this delectable herb. Today, I am going to show you how to preserve basil ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Hand-Milled Acne Soap
For a Continuous Supply I love herbs! I always have several plants growing in my garden. At any time, you ...
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, ...
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 ...
Planting a Lavender Hedge
A Healthy and Quick Alternative to Store Bought Cubes When cold weather hits and you are expecting the first freezing ...
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 ...
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 ...
Herbs to Know Lemon Balm
Get an Herbal Jump on Cold & Flu Season Herbal cold remedy recipes have been used for hundreds of years ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Refresh Your Mint Patch
WItch Hazel Is Such a Wonderful Addition to Your Medicine Cabinet. It Is Beneficial for All Skin Types and Can ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Fire Cider Vinegar
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
