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Growing Herb Gardens ~The Herbs I grow

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May 28, 2014 by Kendra 8 Comments

As you are planting your garden this spring you may want to consider growing herb gardens too. Consider the herbs you use in cooking and try planting them. Or maybe you use certain herbs for health reasons, try planting them.

I don’t have one garden designated to herbs. Instead they are in many different places around our house.  When it comes to growing herb gardens, I plant herbs where they will grow well. Another thing to consider is that some herbs have more than one purpose.

Growing herb gardens are not hard, even for beginners.  Many herbs have pretty flowers and gan be planted into the landscaping.

Growing Herb Gardens ~Why I grow and why:

Echinacea: Echinacea is a beautiful perennial flower that many grow in their flower beds. Also known as the purple cone flower, echinacea is a great immune booster and when you are coming down with a cold or virus, echinacea tea is amazing.

I wrote a little more about echinacea here. This beautiful flower lives in my flower bed with other flowers like daisies, and black-eyed susans.

Spearmint: Spearmint is a fast growing perennial that will take over entire areas if you let it. There is a corner of our yard where the mower cannot reach and our solution was to plant spearmint. Spearmint keeps weeds out and the mower keeps it from spreading into our yard.

Spearmint is amazing for cooling summer teas. I also drink it in my pregnancy tea as well. It can help hide the bitter flavors of other herbs. Once you plant mint, you can expect it to come back each year.

Red Raspberries: I shared one of our reasons for growing them right here. Not only are the berries great for eating, the leaves make a wonderful tea for pregnancy. Supposed to help strengthen the uterus and help with labor, red raspberry leaf tea has a great taste even when you are not pregnant. 🙂 (Just ask my hubby!)

Basil: While I’m sure basil has many herbal properties, I have to admit that I grow basil for the taste alone. We cook enough Italian that fresh basil is a great addition to my dishes. I use it to make basil pesto, and now that I have my dehydrator I will be drying some as well.

We usually just plop a couple basil plants into a flower bed somewhere, the bushy shape and shiny leaves make it look as though it fits right in. Basil is an annual: plant new each year.

Cilantro: Same as the basil, I use it for cooking. Cilantro is what makes both Mexican and Indian dishes so yummy. I also use a great amount of it in my homemade salsa.

While not as pretty as basil, we usually plant the cilantro in a flower bed as well. Cilantro is an annual: plant new each year.

Nettles: We do not grow nettles in our gardens. I want to but hubby totally vetoed it. I can understand why, but after reading how great nettles are and starting to add it to my pregnancy tea; I really appreciate the wonderful qualities of that stinging little plant.  Maybe in the future we will grow them, until that happens we will need to find them in the wild. 🙂

Lavender: Lavender is a fragrant herb well known for it’s relaxing properties. A soft smell that is soothing to the nervous system and is great for your skin.  It’s also a beautiful plant that we have in our flower beds. Lavender is a perennial, coming back each year.

Chives: A crisp onion like flavor, makes chives a great addition to many dishes. They have pretty pink flowers on them which makes it easy to plop a plant or two right into a flower bed.

Currently our chives are growing on one end of our raspberry bed. Chives are also perennial so they will be there year after year.

There are many other “kitchen herbs” we could grow, but due to our limited space, I only grow what we really use a lot of. What I would like to grow sometime is Lemon Balm. It has such an amazing smell to it, but I’m not sure how to use it. I wouldn’t want to eat lemon balm, but I would like to make a cleaner with it, it smells so very fresh and clean. 🙂

If you are feeling creative and don’t have ground space, you could make this Free Standing Pallet Herb planter. I have to admit that it’s pretty cool!

Growing herb gardens are not that hard, basically you decide which herbs you want and start finding ways to plant them. Pinterest even gives a lot of great ideas for growing herb gardens inside!

 

 

 

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Respectful opinions are always welcome

  1. Melanie says

    May 28, 2014 at 7:27 am

    I use a lot of parsley & cilantro. I also like using mint and lemon balm to make meadow tea syrup that can be frozen.

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    • Kendra says

      May 28, 2014 at 9:32 am

      Lemon balm would make a tasty tea, I hadn’t really thought of that. 🙂
      One of these days I will find a place to plant some!

      Reply
  2. Godly Indian Mom says

    May 28, 2014 at 1:16 pm

    Im one of the worst gardner in the history of gardening but reading your posts,It really makes me want to try harder :).Thank you for being an inspiration 🙂

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    • Kendra says

      May 29, 2014 at 7:15 pm

      I”m not all that great either, I have the know how, but the want to is on my hubby’s part. 🙂
      The fact that it’s a huge money saver ans I know how much better it is health wise to grow my own food is why I keep at it.

      Reply
  3. Godly Indian Mom says

    May 28, 2014 at 1:18 pm

    Btw If you’re interested in indian recipes you can check out my blog 🙂

    Reply
    • Kendra says

      May 28, 2014 at 1:57 pm

      Thanks! I may have to do that soon 🙂

      Reply
  4. Blessings! says

    May 29, 2014 at 2:26 am

    I will humbly admit that I purchase my herbs at the market rather than growing them. I have had pepermint and killed it inadevertantly. I have bugs in my spinich, and sunflowers that LOVE me. *big smile* Have have seen some amazing pallat herb gardens that I think I would like to try some day, but not just now. My focus is not on gardening at the moment and my thumbs have never been green. I can kill plants by accident, overwater or underwater. I have so much to learn in the gardening department overall. *smile* I tend to prune my plants back too far as well or in the wrong stage of their growth, oh the things I have to spend time learning. *smile* I really like the smell of mint, garlic, and onions though. *smile* And those grow pretty well, all but the mint. *smile* I like to break off a leaf of something and ask our two growing blessings if they can tell me what it is. Once they have guessed, I let them smell the leaf. It’s fantastic to watch their eyes light up when they got the plant right and then to rub it around in their hands. I love it! Have a great day and keep growing fun things that you use in your kitchen. *smile* Sincerely, Mommy of two growing blessings & so much more!

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    • Kendra says

      May 29, 2014 at 7:13 pm

      Hehe! I have decent green thumb, but there are certain plants that I always manage to kill 😛
      It helps that I”ve been involved in gardening my entire life 🙂

      Reply

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