Herbs

The Weed I Love To Grow

Posted in herbs, plant profiles Dill Weed. I love this plant, and it is so easy to grow… as easy as a weed! If you plant Dill in a cultivated area such as an annually tilled vegetable garden, the seeds will come up for you year after year. Both the seeds and the finely divided feathery textured leaves are edible. The flowers appear on broad umbels and turn to seeds that can be harvested for flavoring recipes...
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Your Own French Potager

Posted in Featured Articles, garden design, veggies There are Kitchen gardens, and then there is the French potager. Like saying, there is cuisine, and then there is French cuisine. You may interpret the distinction in your own mind, but I think there is a subcategory that the French potager holds as all its own in the concept of kitchen gardens. Just as we have come to appreciate the special inflection of the Cottage garden in feeling and style,...
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Thyme In A Garden

Posted in More: Thyme, perhaps because of its scent, perhaps due to its use in flavoring foods, has prominent roles in literature. The play on words has made it a motto for sundials and garden plaques, but I think of thyme as a wonderful landscaping plant. Those herbs which perfume the air most delightfully, not passed by as the rest, but, being trodden upon and crushed, are three; that is, burnet, wild...
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Marjoram

Posted in herbs, plant profiles Origanum majorana, sweet marjoram Marjoram is one of the herb garden residents who manage to find a place in your heart. It doesn’t start out that way. The appearance is a bit olive drab, their kitchen use is not as in demand as other high profile herbs, but over time you may find an attachment to this soft spoken planting. It is sometimes used in the mix of the Herbes de Provence,...
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Herb Garden Plantlists

Posted in general gardening, herbs, plant lists sundials Culinary Herb Garden Links: Culinary GardenCulinary Plantlist chives oregano marjoram fennel parsley oregano sage thyme rosemary garlic angelica borage savory Dyers Herb Garden “Red cabbage leaves, carrot tops, cranberries, curry power, fresh dandelion flowers, fennel leaves and flowers, fresh goldenrod flowers, hop flowers, mugwort leaves, red, yellow and white onion...
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