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Get a Head Start on Your Cilantro
I love cilantro in the garden, but it's the fastest bolting herb I've ever come across.
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Fashionable Sage is a Wise Choice for the Garden
1 commentWhen horticulture and high fashion meet, the results are chic, stylish and definitely delicious.
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Homegrown / Homemade: Basil
1 commentWhatever kind of basil you grow, pruning keeps your plants bushy and productive. Danielle shows Sarah how to pinch back the basil plants and remove the flowers, then Sarah shows Danielle how to whip up a quick dish: Thai Stir-Fried Chicken with Basil.
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Salsa Verde
This sauce goes well with any type of vegetable whether it is grilled, steamed, oven-roasted, or crudités; it is also good with simply prepared meat, chicken, or fish and pasta. Vary the herbs that you have on hand, or what is in season. Replace some of the parsley with basil, use tarragon or dill instead of marjoram, or substitute watercress for the rocket.
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Visiting Gardens in the Summertime
1 commentIt is summertime and the livin’ is easy—that is if you are at home in the a.c. with a long, tall cool drink of lemonade or iced tea. I have been out on the road, giving lectures and visiting public as well as private gardens. Fortunately, I am with like-minded people, those who like to garden and cook...
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Culinary Herbs That Grow Well in Shade
1 commentLet go of perfection - herbs can deal with a little shade.
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The Herb that Keeps on Giving
1 commentChives are an easy-to-grow, oniony herb that turns butter into something better.
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How to Grow Basil
11 commentsWhen I first fell in love with gardening, my biggest seducer was herbs. I found herbs to be not only one of the easiest types of plants to grow, but they were also the most fun to create a garden with - not to mention the most versatile group of plants out there.
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Perfect Plant Pairings
Just like pairing wine with food, vegetables can be matched with their most compatible herbs. A good pairing brings out the flavors of each to help you get the most from your garden.
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Sweet Bay (Laurus Nobilis): The Herb of Frankenstein
9 commentsTruth be told, I would still describe its attitude as mild-mannered, but in a baby Godzilla sort of way.
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Raised Bed Kitchen Garden in Ohio
2 commentsWe built this colonial style kitchen garden or "Potager" last year . . . Much fun as well as much hard work! We will see what surprises the garden gives us in 2010 ! Enjoy!
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Herbal Harbingers of Spring: Lemon Balm
In most parts of the country our gardens are coming alive and we are rejoicing that spring is upon us. We delight as the first herbs appear in the garden and combine their flavors with seasonal...
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Strawberry and Lemon Balm Whipped Cream Parfaits
Welcome the warm weather with strawberry parfaits.
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Plant Dill This Spring
Dill is a treat as a salad crop, and also in the form of dill seed. It is easily grown; why not plant some now?
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Dilled Beet and Buttermilk Soup
This soup is especially good in the spring, when beets are in season.
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Celebrate Dill!
It is time to welcome dill as herb of the year for 2010, chosen by the International Herb Association for its culinary, ornamental and medicinal traits.
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Spring Green
Spring is in the air! It is time to start foraging for new plant growth and harbingers of spring in our gardens—celebrating green.
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Chives Are a Must-Have in the Kitchen Garden
I'm always looking for more ways to seduce the good guys to my garden.
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Herb Butter
Simple to make, herb butters keep in the refrigerator for about one week, or in the freezer for up to three months.
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An Indoor Herb Garden Tides Us Over Until Spring
2 commentsRecord snowfall in the mid-Atlantic this winter has kept us inside, so why not sow some seeds indoors?
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