growing herbs - Page 3 of 6 - Fine Gardening
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Book Review: How to Move Like a Gardener: Planting and Preparing Medicines from Plants
Here's my favorite new gardening book: How to Move Like a Gardener: Planting and Preparing Medicines from Plants by Deb Soule, (Rockport, Maine: Under the Willow Press, 2013) is a…
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Kitchen Gardening
Tips and Tricks for Growing Oregano
Oregano requires very little attention and happily produces many pungent, aromatic leaves with the most basic care. Pots or containers make a perfect home for oregano, which makes it handy…
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How-To
Deer Don’t Like Basil
As long as gardeners have been gardening, they’ve been trying to keep wildlife from getting to the harvest first. A new book by Ruth Rogers Clausen gives 50 ideas for…
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Article
Coulibiac With Rice, Leeks, Mushrooms, Greens, and Herbs
A coulibiac is a savory Russian dish baked in a pastry crust often shaped in a loaf form and filled with fish (traditionally salmon), vegetables, hard-boiled eggs, mushrooms and dill.…
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Article
The Herb That Keeps on Giving
Chives are an easy-to-grow, oniony herb that turns butter into something better.
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Kitchen Gardening
Tips and Tricks for Growing Basil
When 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…
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Article
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…
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Article
Savory for Winter Dishes
I’ve been discussing the robust herbs for warming winter dishes in my blogs for January and part of February and Savory is my last, but not least entry. I believe…
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Kitchen Gardening
How to Grow Coriander
Cilantro (Chinese parsley) may resemble its namesake, but it's not the wall flower that parsley is in the garden.