Herbs - Page 4 of 28 - Fine Gardening
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How-To
Veggie Varieties for Italian Cooking
Late-summer harvests of juicy tomatoes, fresh herbs, delicious red peppers, and leafy greens inspire tasty suppers. And putting together a pizza topped with your very own, fresh-from-the-garden summer veggies is…
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How-To
A Hole in Every Host Plant
Many gardeners want immaculate foliage, but to us perfect foliage means there aren’t enough caterpillars munching leaves to produce the diaphanous moths and bright-colored butterflies that we want. Many folks…
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Design
Episode 61: What We’re Starting From Seed
It’s been a long winter and a less-than-stellar start to spring, so naturally we went a little overboard on the seed starting this year. While Steve purchased and started mostly…
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Design
Gardening With a Three-Year-Old Assistant
My name is Bethany Davis, and I live in Southern California. My gardening experience is somewhat varied. I grew up in rural Wisconsin, where my mother's in-ground vegetable garden was…
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Kitchen Gardening
Rosemary is Still Rosemary Despite Name Change
Rosemary by any other name is still rosemary, unless the Royal Horticultural Society decides to change its name. What will its scientific name change mean for vegetable and herb gardeners…
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Article
Elderberry and Fire Cider Elixir
After I posted the recent blog on fire cider, I received a request for this recipe--so here it is. Hopefully, you froze some elderberries when they were in season, if…
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Article
Wild Rice with Cranberries and Hazelnuts
We are gearing up for the annual Herb Harvest Fall Festival at the Ozark Folk Center in Mountain View, Arkansas on the weekend of October 2 to 5. For this…
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Article
Summer Solstice: Time for Farmers’ Markets, Gardening, Seasonal Bounty and Weeds
It is that time of year again already! Today we celebrate the true arrival of summer with the solstice--the longest day and shortest night of the entire year. Not that…
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Kitchen Gardening
Herbs with Anise-, Fennel-, and Licorice-Like Flavors
I recently did a program at the annual Herb Society of America conference in Madison, Wisconsin thus titled; this is a modified version of the handout. Since we are celebrating…
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Design
Simple, Elegant Container Plantings
Today we’re in Malvern, Pennsylvania, visiting Carla Zambelli Mudry’s wonderful garden again. We’ve visited it before in the summer and earlier in the spring when the daffodils were blooming, and today…