Herbs

Is all lavender edible? Not really. Some lavender is delicious, but not all varieties are the same.

By Amy Grant

There is a knack to drying herbs for tea the best way if you are after the tastiest, freshest flavors. Here’s how to prepare your homegrown herbal brews

By Amy Grant

It’s exciting to try some unusual plants for making tea. Enjoy these unusual tea flavors, and try some for their medicinal qualities.

By Mary Ellen Ellis

If you love your herbs you’ll want to know how to prune rosemary. A rugged and prolific plant, rosemary is a popular culinary, medicinal and ornamental staple in the garden.

By Heather Rhoades

Learn how to grow saffron crocus is worth the time and effort to have this incredibly expensive and delicious spice at your fingertips.

By Heather Rhoades

By Mary Ellen Ellis

Creeping thyme makes a pretty and fragrant ground cover carpet, as well as a great spiller in pots. It likes a little grit in the soil and is easy to grow.

By Amy Grant

Use your imagination and plant a lovely front yard herb garden. You’ll love the convenience, the fragrance and the beauty, and pollinators will appreciate it.

By Amy Grant

We love this herb, but basil’s temperature tolerance isn’t strong. It dislikes the cold and doesn’t like too much heat. The lack of basil’s cold tolerance is challenging, but worth it.

By Amy Grant

Burdock is an invasive herbaceous weed with a long, taproot that may invade your lawn or garden. Mow it before it flowers and dig up the entire taproot.

By Mary H. Dyer

Basil flowers are delightful in salads and for tea, but plucking them also benefits the growth and aroma of the green leaves that are so tasty in cooking.

By Amy Grant

I’m hoping to replicate the year I had a blue ribbon, not grown on steroids, bumper crop of basil in containers. I was just a newbie then. Here’s my story.

By Amy Grant

The comfrey plant, or Symphytum officinale, is an old-fashioned perennial herb used in the garden to attract pollinators and as a liquified fertilizer.

By Amy Grant

Garden-grown basil in winter usually dies all the way back. Learn how to care for and preserve basil at the end of the season so you can enjoy it through the winter.

By Amy Grant

While we may consider citronella plant for mosquitoes a common garden plant, we’re probably thinking of citronella geranium, a delicately scented geranium that may or may not repel insects, and can be grown in the garden or as a houseplant.

By Nikki Tilley