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Companion Planting with Herbs

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Trees & Shrubs. Trees & Shrubs. Companion Planting With Herbs. Companion planting, planting certain plants together to benefit one or both of them, has been practiced for centuries. Modern science can find no basis for the practice but gardeners swear by it. Companion plants can improve the flavor or health of plants, improve the soil, attract beneficial insects or repel pests. Herbs can do all of these things. Using herbs to attract beneficial insects. And stinging nettle. Lovage. Nasturtiums are referr...

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Growing Herbs - Advice From The Herb Lady

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Trees & Shrubs. Trees & Shrubs. From Seeds and Cuttings. Growing Herbs in Containers. Bringing Herbs Indoors for the Winter. Preserving and Storing Your Herbs. Designed and developed by blue magnolia design co. Type and Press “enter” to Search.

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Attracting Beneficial Insects With Herbs

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Trees & Shrubs. Trees & Shrubs. Attracting Beneficial Insects With Herbs. We hear a lot these days about attracting beneficials, but what are beneficials and why do we want them in our gardens? The term beneficials refers to specific insects and other creatures such as hummingbirds and bats which help our gardens in two different ways. The first type of beneficials are pollinators. According to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. We don’t often think of butterflies. They like bee balm. You might also like.

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Growing Herbs From Seeds and Cuttings

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Trees & Shrubs. Trees & Shrubs. Growing Herbs From Seeds and Cuttings. Where can you get herbs for your garden? The easiest way to obtain herbs is to buy plants from your local nursery or one of the Big Box stores. You won’t get much variety, though. You can also order plants from catalogs. Or you can make your own herbs. Here’s how:. Winter savory, germander. Keep your cuttings moist. Not wet, moist. How do you tell if roots are developing? Once roots have developed, you are going to need to fertilize&#...

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Herbs for a Hummingbird Garden

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Trees & Shrubs. Trees & Shrubs. Herbs for a Hummingbird Garden. They are more of a salmon color than strawberry. Monarda didyma ‘Jacob Cline’. Is a favorite of both bees and hummingbirds, not surprising because it is a native plant. It was valued by the Oswego Indians for its medicinal properties. They brewed a tea from its leaves. The early settlers drank the tea when black tea was scarce or too expensive, calling it Oswego Tea. The native plant comes in red ( Monarda didyma. You might also like. Design...

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Grow Your Own Herbes de Provence

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Trees & Shrubs. Trees & Shrubs. Grow Your Own Herbes de Provence. Is readily available in your grocery store . . . and in your herb garden. You can easily grow the savory, fennel. Thyme and lavender found in the commercial mixtures. A member of the mint family, savory comes in two varieties:. Which is an annual, and winter savory (. Which is a perennial. Despite being members of the mint family, neither one is invasive. You want to grow summer savory. Summer savory is easily grown from seed. Allowing a b...

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Shade Tolerant Herbs

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Trees & Shrubs. Trees & Shrubs. A question that I am frequently asked is Can I grow herbs in the shade? The answer is yes, provided you choose the right herbs. While most herbs are sun lovers, there are some that tolerate partial shade and a few that actually prefer shade. First let’s, define partial shade and full shade . Partial shade is 3 to 6 hours of sunlight daily, preferably in the morning and afternoon. Full shade is less than 3 hours of direct sun each day. Hardy to zone 4, it grows to 3′ ...

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Harvesting Your Herbs

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Trees & Shrubs. Trees & Shrubs. How and when you harvest your herbs depends on how you plan to use them. In general, you should harvest your herbs early in the morning after the dew has dried. This is when their flavor or essential oils are at their peak. If you are harvesting herbs flowers for flavor or scent, you should do it before they actually bloom. Herb flowers have their highest concentration of essential oils when the buds form. That concentration falls as the buds open. Are the fruit of the ros...

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Grow Your Own Fines Herbes

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Trees & Shrubs. Trees & Shrubs. Grow Your Own Fines Herbes. The next time you reach into your spice cabinet for the. Take a look at the label: parsley, chives, tarragon. You can easily grow all of these in your herb garden. A member of the carrot family, parsley comes in three varieties: flat leaf, curly leaf and root parsley. For your. A hardy member of the onion family, chives come in two varieties: the familiar garden chives (. With an onion flavor and garlic chives (. Chives can be grown from seed bu...

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Herbs for a Butterfly Garden

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Trees & Shrubs. Trees & Shrubs. Herbs for a Butterfly Garden. When most people think of planting a butterfly garden, they think of butterfly bushes, zinnias, butterfly weed and other common garden flowers that attract butterflies. Herbs are also attractive to butterflies. A successful butterfly garden provides both nectar plants, which provide food for butterflies, and host plants, which provide food for their caterpillars. Herbs fulfill both of these requirements, sometimes both at the same time! Black ...