Category: Herbs

Enhancing Your Culinary Creations: Easiest Herbs to Grow Indoors for Cooking

Overview Benefits of growing herbs indoors Growing herbs indoors offers numerous benefits for home cooks. One of the main advantages is the convenience of having fresh herbs readily available whenever you need them. With an indoor herb garden, you can simply pluck a few leaves or sprigs of your favorite herbs and add them to…
What is the Difference Between Mint and Peppermint?

Peppermint is really a sub variety or a plant that is part of the larger mint genus of plants. It forms a subset of the larger mint collection of plants. Depending on how discriminating you are, there can be as little as 13 mint species or 24. What makes this really challenging is the fact…
When to Prune Basil for The First Time… And More!

Basil is one of the best plants to have growing around your home. It’s incredibly easy to grow and doubles as a great ornamental plant. I like to hang mine on a window by the kitchen, but anywhere it can get some sunlight is fine. Basil doesn’t need much more than watering, sunlight and basic…
What is the Best Way to Keep Basil Fresh?

Basil, whether the Italian variety or its sweet Thai version, has long been a favorite ingredient in many regional cuisines. It is very versatile and can be used in all sorts of dishes. Whether you’re looking for an added kick or a much-needed dose of complexity and exoticism, basil has your back. If you’re looking…
When Is Basil In Season? We’ve Got Answers

It all depends on the variety of basil you’re keeping. Please understand that basil is a member of the mint family, and there are many different varieties, sub-varieties, and hybrids of basil. You have to account for all these differences because there is no such thing as one type of basil that is good for…
Are Basil Flowers Edible? Well, It Depends…

Usually, when people eat basil, they prefer the leaves. This pretty much explains 95% of culinary basil use. For the remaining 5%, there are some gourmets as well as artisan chefs that swear by the distinctive aroma and texture of basil flowers. The good news is that basil flowers are quite edible. It all depends…
How to Handle Brown Spots on Basil Leaves (…and can you still eat it?)

If you have been growing basil in your garden for quite some time, you would notice that some plants would have leaves that have brown spots. You might be thinking that these leaves are automatically bad and that you shouldn’t eat them. After all, the main reason why people raise basil plants in the first…
Grow a Thriving Indoor Herb Garden with Grow Lights: A Quick Guide

Garden grow lights might be necessary if you want to have a productive indoor herb garden. By not using garden lighting effects you may cause your herb plants to become wilty, or lose their color, the plants will not blossom or produce fruit. Garden lights are significant for an indoor herb garden to flourish; inadequate…
Our Top Tips for Growing an Indoor Herb Garden in Winter

Depending on where in the world you live, your outdoor growing season may be limited to a specific set of months of the year, as winter weather conditions may not be conducive for outdoor gardening. Not all plants (especially herbs) take kindly to plummeting temperatures, frozen soil and icy precipitation. But, lucky for us, we…
How to Prune Basil Without Damaging It: Keeping Hope Alive!

It’s very easy to kill basil by pulling it the wrong way. If you’re reading this, you have probably gone through at least a few basil plants. You thought you were just taking off some leaves for that nice bowl of pesto pasta you had in mind. It turns out that doing so shortened the…