Introducing Oregano, the Pests that Hurt Them and How to Protect Them From Pest-Ridden Harm Where would we be without oregano? Pizza sauce would be bland, stews would be colorless, gardens would be down a solider, and folks would be desperate for a natural cough and cold remedy. There are so many reasons to plant …
Supercharge your basil efforts with this age-old gardening hack which is adding fertilizer. Here are the five best fertilizers for basil. 1. Nitrogen-rich fertilizers Basil is a heavy feeder and requires a steady supply of nitrogen to support its rapid growth. The solution is to use fertilizers that are high in nitrogen, such as ammonium …
Dying Oregano Oregano is one of the awesome, essential, resilient, prolific, delicious, fragrant, and irreplaceable herbs that everyone should have either in their garden or dried in their pantry. It is known as being super tough and easy to grow, but sometimes, no matter our greatest efforts, things can go awry. If you’re a gardener …
With a warm, rich fragrance that imparts delicious Italian flavor to your recipes, oregano is an herb that is a staple of many home cooks. If you have started growing your own herbs, you may have a few pots containing several small oregano plants. If you have carefully tended them for a few weeks, you …
The secret ingredient that adds the perfect flavorful touch to many Italian dishes, oregano is an herb that can be grown easily indoors. This herb has a warm fragrance and will eventually adopt a trailing growth habit with its oblong, green leaves when grown indoors in pots. If your oregano seems to be growing too …
Harvesting Oregano There’s nothing like finishing off a beautifully prepared meal with an aromatic herb that you plucked from your very own garden or indoor herb garden. Growing oregano, thyme, basil, or mint is a great way to elevate your regular recipes, and a great way to increase your gardening skills, too! Gardening isn’t always …
“There are about TEN different ways to freeze Basil….Properly grandson”, giggled grandpa with a wicked glint in his eye. When I was a boy, instead of going off to camp or summer school, I usually visited my grandparents at their veggie farm for the summer. It was during one such visit that one night I …
Grown for its warm herbal goodness, oregano is a plant that is beautiful as well as useful. The plant features deep green oblong leaves and a trailing, spreading habit. Whether you use tons of oregano in your cooking or you are new to cooking with fresh herbs, adding an oregano plant to your indoor herb …
Flowering Oregano Chances are that you’re here because you already have an oregano plant growing in your outdoor or indoor herb garden. Who can blame you! This perennial herb is easy to grow, lovely to look at, and it’s both an amazing edible and medicinal plant on top of it all! Like many other perennial …
A favorite herb of chefs who prepare Spanish, Greek, and Italian cuisine, oregano is a beautiful houseplant even if you never use it for cooking. It has an attractive trailing growth habit, oval-shaped dark green leaves, and a welcoming, spicy fragrance. If you are starting an indoor herb garden, oregano definitely needs to be included …
Collecting Oregano Seeds Growing oregano is wonderful for so many reasons. It can function as a gorgeous ornamental plant for your garden while simultaneously attracting pollinators, but it is also essential if you’re at all serious about preparing delicious and fresh meals. Growing oregano is especially wonderful if you’re not too keen on heading to …
An aromatic herb that is commonly featured in Italian and Greek cooking, oregano is a lovely herb for your indoor herb garden. It has a sprawling growth habit that dangles over the edges of your herb pots and has beautiful deep green oval-shaped leaves. When you grow oregano in your kitchen, you will simply need …
Drying Oregano Simon & Garfunkel missed an important ingredient when they were writing about parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme: oregano! Oregano is an essential herb when it comes to savory cooking, and everyone probably already has it in their pantry. Homegrown herbs are a great way to ensure that you always have fresh herbs on …
If you like to cook Mexican food, you are probably no stranger to the cilantro plant. These herbs with fan shaped leaves add just the right touch of freshness to your fajitas, quesadillas, or tacos. One problem with using cilantro, however, is that you generally will buy a giant bunch of it in the store, and …
A quick growing herb with fan-shaped, flavorful leaves, cilantro is a member of the parsley family and is featured frequently in Mexican, Asian, and Mid-Eastern cooking. You may have found and purchased large bunches of fresh cilantro in the grocery store in the produce department. The problem with buying it this way is that unless …
Introducing Oregano Oregano is an herb that you have already likely seen in a pantry, grocery store, or refrigerator. It is an essential herb to all sorts of cultures of cuisine and brings a pleasant kick to all sorts of different savory dishes. One important aspect of oregano care is knowing how to handle it …
Growing herbs indoors is a lovely hobby that can be relaxing and soothing. Even if you do not live in a place where you can grow giant beds of herbs outside, you can still enjoy growing them in various containers in your home. Additionally, you can use your herbs to flavor dishes as you cook. …
Keeping an indoor herb garden is a great way to bring the outdoors indoors and grow tasty food items for your table. Whether you want handfuls of basil to top your weekly pasta dinner or fresh thyme to sprinkle on a roasting chicken before you bake it, growing herbs is fun, fairly simple, and takes just …
Basil plants are a fairly common staple in the garden of most warm climate gardeners. While many people think of basil as an Italian plant, the truth is that there are varieties of basil all over the world. The plant has different flavors depending on where each type of basil originates, but nearly all …
Herbs are expensive, yet they can benefit our diets and turn our recipes from blasé to something amazing. By growing your own, the expense is minimal. The benefit of planting once, and receiving a yield year after year, is appealing. Many culinary herbs are perennials, as are many medicinal herbs. There are common perennial herbs …
Growing basil in small spaces may not seem like a cool idea, but it’s definitely possible and not as difficult as you might think. I personally love the idea of growing my own herbs and there’s nothing quite like getting your favorite herbs fresh from your own plants. Successfully growing basil at home does require …
Downy mildew on basil is a fuzzy grey substance that begins on the underside of your basil leaves and grows up to infect the entire plant. It is a pathogen that can impact not just your basil leaves and plants but surrounding plants as well. You will start to notice yellow spots on the leaves …
Most of the nearly 100 types of herbs require a decent amount of sunshine. However, those that thrive in most sunlight are Basil, Lavender, Chives, Dill, Oregano, Rosemary, and Thyme. Typically, 4-6 hours of daily sunshine will do just fine, but lavender and basil do best with up to eight hours of sunlight daily. While …
Before crushing the basil leaves, you must dry them. This process can take as long as four weeks to air-dry your basil or two minutes if you use a microwave oven. You can leave dry basil whole and crush it upon use, or crush it, jar it, and save it for all your favorite holiday …
City dwellers may yearn for fresh herbs and spices yet lack a yard in which to grow them. Container gardens save them. You can grow an extensive garden on the windowsills and your balcony or patio. You will need a wide selection of pots and containers because of not all herbs like the same thing. Some spices …
Downy mildew is mildew that is spread by the wind and can reach the leaves of your basil plant. It infects basil plants in America every single summer and many other surrounding plants as well. For some farmers, the wrong amount of downy mildew could result in an entire lost crop and a significant financial …
Spicy, pungent, and delicious, basil is a favorite herb of many people. Not only can you add the delicious Italian flavor of basil to pasta, chicken, and all kinds of other dishes, but this herb is also a lovely herb to grow both indoors and outside. Even better, basil is one of those herbs that …
Planting basil is like setting up our gardens for success, from the smell to the help it gives other plants and, of course, the flavor it lends to a myriad of dishes. I truly enjoy planting it and so will you. As you read through this list of reasons for planting basil, you’ll see why …
Encouraging a Bushy Basil Plant If you’re growing basil, chances are that it’s going to be for culinary purposes. Basil is one of the most popular and widely used culinary herbs on the plant, and being able to have a fresh one in your house at all times will add a fresh kick to any …
You love the peppery, spicy taste of fresh basil if you are like me. It is much less expensive to grow your basil easily. Although fresh basil is relatively easy to grow, the best success is when the basil plant is pruned correctly. Let’s explore what the basil plant is, why it is such a …
Rooting Basil I don’t need to tell you that you love basil. That is probably why you’re here! But not everybody has the time or patience to grow basil right from seed. Luckily, there is a super timely and cost effective to grow basil and that is through growing from cuttings! Basil is going to …
Oregano is a low-maintenance herb that many people use multiple times a week when cooking their favorite Greek, Italian, or Spanish foods. This herb has a pungent, spicy, and warm fragrance and lends herbal goodness to tomato sauces, meat dishes, and vegetables. In fact, in some ancient civilizations, herdsmen grazed their goats on the mountainsides …
Flowering Basil A flowering basil plant is a beautiful thing, but it is also quite a meaningful plant-happening depending on why you are growing basil in your garden in the first place. We’ve written this article in an effort to inform gardeners about why their basil plant is flowering, and what you should do going …
Hi there, my fellow basil fan. If you’re reading this article, you’re either planting your own basil for the first time, or you weren’t happy with the last harvest you had from your basil plant. Perhaps you slacked on watering and pruning, or you forgot about fertilizer. Either way, I’m here to help! We’ll be …
Basil can be a fun plant to grow, and when you do it right, the results can be extraordinary. The key to remembering everything you need to know about basil is that it is a plant that likes warmth and likes extremely moist soil. When you grow it, you will soon become addicted to its …
If you have never grown anything before and you want to start an indoor herb garden, every decision can seem so important. After all, nobody starts out planning to fail, and most people want to be successful at this enterprise. Is the choice of a pot for your herb garden that important? Can it make …
Harvesting Basil Seeds If you’ve read all of our other articles about caring for basil – whether it be identifying dying basil, dealing with bolting basil, browning basil, growing basil indoors, keeping away basil pests, or dealing with overwatered basil, and when to harvest basil leaves – you’re probably an expert by now. So you’ve …
Basil is an herb that is commonly used in a lot of Italian and Mediterranean cooking, but the herb can also be used for a lot of different medicinal and practical purposes around the house. Basil comes in several different varieties, with each type imparting it’s own unique flavor such as cinnamon basil or spicy …
Protecting Basil from Cold Basil is a wonderful, tender annual plant that will completely uplift your cooking life if you can grow it in or around your home. However, the more that you learn about basil plants, the more you understand that they are quite the high-maintenance herb! What are they most sensitive to? Dips …
Dealing with Over Watered Basil Just because it is a popular herb, doesn’t meaning that growing basil is a simple task. The more you learn about basil plants, the more you will find just how particular and high maintenance they really are. Basil is over sensitive to a lot of different conditions, and the most …
Browning Basil The more you learn about basil, the more you start to understand that it is actually a pretty high maintenance plant. But that doesn’t mean that it’s fragile! As long as you can maintain the ideal growing conditions of a basil plant, it will reward you with gorgeous tasting and smelling foliage. Whether …
Basil Pests The more you learn about basil care, the more that you start to understand just how high maintenance of an herb basil is. That being said, the flavor and aroma of basil plants makes all of the effort completely worth it. There is something that loves the taste of basil foliage more than …
If you are getting started on growing herbs indoors, one of the first decisions that you have to make is which kind of dirt to buy to fill your herb pots. You can just go to the garden center and buy a bag of potting soil, but if you are the type to wonder what …
Bolting Basil Have you ever gone to trim your basil plant to garnish a pasta dish or a cocktail, and found the flavor of the leaves to have changed? Well, there is a perfectly reasonable explanation for this event, and it’s even something that is preventable! Your basil plant has bolted, but not to worry. …
Harvesting Basil Basil is truly divine for so many reasons. It smells lovely, looks lovely, and tastes lovely. It is wonderfully easy to grow (as long as you know the tips and tricks) and it can grow prosperously in your outdoor herb garden or indoor windowsill garden! Though it may seem obvious to some, there …
Do you Have a Sad Basil Plant? Gardeners are often surprised by how finicky basil plants can be. Though it is a very common herb to grow in your indoor herb garden or outdoors in your herb patch, there are so many issues that they are rather sensitive to. Luckily, at the same time they’re …
Why Should you Start an Indoor Herb Garden? There is something extremely pleasurable about growing your own fresh herbs and your own veggies and fruit. Though it may be daunting to some people because of the amount of tools, time, and effort it takes, all of that becomes worth it the very first time that …
Introducing Cilantro Plants! The perennial question that is constantly on everyone’s minds: is it cilantro, or is it coriander? Well, technically it’s both. Cilantro and coriander are basically different parts of the same plant! Cilantro is the name used for the leaves of the plant, whereas coriander is in reference to seeds that emerge after …
It took me a while to become an okay cook and even longer to become superb at making meals. I am a bachelor, but I do not like to eat out or get takeaway every night. I have come to learn the joys of cooking my own meals and of making gourmet dishes for my …
Basil is a lovely annual herb that can be used in a variety of ways. It’s also simple to cultivate and may be extremely prolific given the right growing circumstances. Basil plants, on the other hand, are susceptible to a variety of problems, one of which is the development of woody stems. The good news …