You don’t need a home in the country with lots of land to grown your own herbs. Herbs will grow quite happily in a container. If you have a sunny window that gets at least 5-6 hours of sun a day you can even grow herbs inside! In fact if the only outdoor space youContinue reading “The Gardenless Herb Garden”
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Preserving Herbs – Freezing
There are many ways of preserving herbs. Frozen herbs actually taste fresher than dried herbs, but only for the first four months or so after freezing.
Preserving Herbs – Drying.
If you are like me you have an abundance of fresh herbs in your garden, perhaps more than you can use. What do you do with the surplus? I do what gardeners and cooks have been doing for years – dry the surplus! By drying my herbs now I can store them and use themContinue reading “Preserving Herbs – Drying.”
Prudent Pantry: Drying Your Herbs, Avoiding Waste!
If you are like me you have an abundance of fresh herbs in your garden, perhaps more than you can use. What do you do with the surplus? I do what gardeners and cooks have been doing for years – dry the surplus! By drying my herbs now I can store them and use themContinue reading “Prudent Pantry: Drying Your Herbs, Avoiding Waste!”
My Garden: The Spoon Trick
Today I am sharing a little trick to harvest your herbs! I have a new herb garden this year right outside my kitchen door. Very convenient for me, to say the least. I used to hand pick the herb leaves from their stems, which was slow work and often inefficient. Then I discovered that IContinue reading “My Garden: The Spoon Trick”
Nancy on the Home Front 