Easiest herbs to grow at home
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What can be as satisfying as having fresh herbs always available to enhance your cooking and food preparation. For a novice gardener, herbs can be the easiest way to start gardening.
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Garlic
Just break apart the cloves and plant individually in Spring or Fall. The small cloves and be planted as groupings for fresh garlic greens. Snip the greens into soups and salads and other baked dishes.Fresh garlic greens are not sold in markets in the USA, so the only way to get them is to grow them.
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Parsley (Petroselinum crispum)
Easiest to grow from plant starts as germination takes a long time.
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Chives (Allium schoenoprasum)
Snip the leaves for potatoes, soups, salads. The flowers are edible for salads and garnishes.
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Garlic chives
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Greel Oregano (Origanum vulgare hirtum)
a true oregano with great floavor and white flowers.
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Peppermint (Mentha × piperita,)
Peppermint has a high menthol content, and is often used as tea and for flavoring. Mints will break up compacted soils. True peppermint is a hybrid and only propagates by the roots. generally thrives in moist, shaded locations
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Spearmint (Mentha spicata)
This is so easy to grow, you might want to contain it. Excellent tea and garnish. Moles, mice and other rodents do not like to dig through the roots of this herb and is a deterrent. around the chicken coup.
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Marjoram (Origanum majorana, Lamiaceae)
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chamomile
This is so easy to grow, it can spread out in driveways as a weed. excellent tea for calming nerves.
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Fernleaf dill (Anethum graveolens)
a dwarf variety, easy to start from seed. Add snippets to soup, salads, cottage cheese. Used in pickling.
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Common thyme, (Thymus vulgaris)
Thyme is often used to flavour meats, soups and stews, a primary flavour with lamb, tomatoes and eggs
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Sage (Salvia officinalis)
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Rosemary (Rosmarinus officinalis)
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Basil (Ocimum basilicum)
There are many varieties of basil. one of the main ingredients in pesto.
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French Tarragon or dragon's-wort (Artemisia dracunculus)
purchased as a plant as it doesnnot seed well. particularly suitable for chicken, lasagna, fish and egg dishes.
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Cilantro - Coriander (Coriandrum sativum)
totally necessary to make salsa and pico-de-gallo
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Lemon balm (Mellisa officinalis)
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Garden Sorrel (Rumex acetosa)
Can be added to salads and soups.
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Borage (Borago officinalis)
Chopped leaves can be added to soups and stews during the last few minutes of cooking. The flowers can be dried to add to potpourri. The edible blue flowers can be used to adorn salads. Rich in minerals especially potassium.
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fennel (Foeniculum vulgare)
yields a seed-like fruit and the leaf as an herb.
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