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Herbs are inexpensive to grow, thrive without much attention and give fresh flavors in all your favorite recipes.
COCKTAIL FACT
Bananas - the mutant herb! Bananas actually grow on plants that are giant perennial herbs, not trees.
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Want to add some spice to your life when the temperature outside starts to drop?
The Bite
Sadly, this tip is not as racy as that opener… Try growing herbs indoors this winter. It’s an easy and fun way to enjoy nature inside and add culinary, aromatic and medicinal flavor to your home.The Benefits
- Free, fresh, organic herbs for your cooking all year. They add tang, zip, and a flavor that their dry counterparts cannot.
- Keep chemicals off your plate - this includes your herbs and spices. The EPA considers 60% of all herbicides, 90% of all fungicides and 30% of all insecticides to be carcinogenic (cancer-causing).
- Save a little energy, easily. Modern farming consumes 12% of the country's total energy supply. More energy is now used to produce synthetic fertilizers than to till, cultivate and harvest all the crops in the United States.
Personally Speaking
Heather brings herbs and geraniums indoors over the winter, while Jen has a big indoor window box of herbs that she enjoys seeing but forgets to use while cooking (probably because she would actually have to cook).Wanna Try?
Give your herb plants at least 6 hours of light and add a little organic fertilizer to the water every three to four weeks. Start with rosemary, which is forgiving.- Mulberry Creek - certified organic herbs in 3½” pots ($3-$6).
- Olive Barn - offers windowsill herb gardens as well as a unique herb garden-in-a bag that can be grown indoors.
- Mountain Valley Growers - offers an Annual Herb Seed 6-Pack that includes the most popular annual herbs ($15).
Nov 10,2005
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.... that looks like Herpes. But alas, I am definitely more proud of my herbies.
I have never been the Martha or Betty type, but when I moved into the new house, this big indoor window box area just called my name.
So I went to the nursery and got rosemary, thyme, and two types of basil. The whole planting process of making them happy in their new little rowboat of a home was great. And then once I used some basil with tomatoes and mozzarella apps. Once.
Off to pick some rosemary to inhale, Jen
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Posted by: Barbara | November 21, 2005 at 04:43 PM