Use of Herbs as Medicine

Herbs are the plants that have medicinal and culinary uses. Herbs are the wild plants and can be easily grown in your garden. They require very low maintenance. They require very less area for plantation. They can be grown in any corner in your flower garden or vegetable garden. The herb gardening tips will help you take care of your culinary and medicinal herbs. Most herbs are sun loving plants and need full sunlight for proper growth. Some of the herbs thrive well in shade. The herb gardening in shade can be a good option for growing herb indoors.
Herbs can add flavor to your food. They also have the ability to cure number of diseases. You can grow these beneficial herbs in your garden or even in your balcony or kitchen. They can be grown in pots or containers. Below are some important herbs that are best for treating various disorders.
Medicinal Herbs:
Some of the important medicinal herbs are Parsley, garlic, ginger, thyme, turmeric, sage, mint, tansy, etc.
Parsley
Parsley is the herb that can be used as a spice or vegetable. It is a bright green hairless herbaceous plant that generally grows in the moderate climate. Parsley is rich in vitamins and minerals. It is best to grow parsley in your garden as it is power house of the essential components. It also has a beautiful appearance. It can be the attractive plant for your hall. It has a large amount of chlorophyll. It can be used as the breath sweetener.
Mint
Mint is the type of herb that grows like a weed. It is best against digestion problems. It can be used for stomach cramps, menstrual cramps, nausea, vomiting, flatulence, etc. You can make tea using the leaves of mint and have it after your dinner. It is the best appetite stimulant. Though it reduces the hunger for little time, you will strongly feel hungry after the effect wears off. For people to gain weight, tea can be consumed 30 minutes before the meals to stimulate hunger.
Garlic
Garlic is the popular herb with number of culinary and medicinal uses. Garlic has the anti-bacterial and anti-viral properties. Hence, it is best for treating wounds, skin infections, ulcers, stomach cancer, high blood pressure, bladder problems, ear aches, kidney problems, etc.
Apart from these medicinal herbs, there are many other herbs those can be used for medicinal and cookery purpose. You can plant these herbs into the pots and keep them at hand so that you can use them whenever required.

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Food and Medicine Garden

Food and Medicine Garden

Herbs are the plants that have medicinal as well as culinary use. They can be used in food to add flavor as spices. Most herbs are the wild plants and hence don’t require much care. They can grow without much care. Herb gardening is an easy task. You can make your herb gardening a more beautiful experience if you follow few herb gardening tips. Herb gardens can be planted in the smallest available place in your flower garden or they can even be planted in pots in your kitchen so that you can use them whenever required.
Herb Gardens:
The main reason of planting the medicinal herbs in your garden is that these species are mostly endangered. You can also use these herbs whenever required. Most culinary lovers will need the fresh herbs for cooking. Planting them at the hand distance, will be much helpful to get the herbs when required.
Medicinal Herbs:
• Bilberry
• Angelica
• Bistort
• Astragals
• Blue Flag
• Blackthorn
• Borage
• Chamomile
• Calendula
• Comfrey
• Coltsfoot
• Couch grass
• Cow slip
• Dandelion
• Fennel
• Feverfew
• Elder
• Geranium
• Hawthorn
Culinary Herbs:
• Coriander
• Thyme
• French Lavender
• Basil
• Bay Laurel
• Parsley
• Lemon Verbena
• Dill
• Chives
• Rosemary
• Sage
Above are some of the kitchen herbs that can be planted in your garden. Below are some tips to follow when you are planting these in your food and medicine gardens.
Herb Gardening Tips:
Herbs grow wild and they generally grow in full sunlight. Hence, whenever you grow herb garden, make sure that the place you chose for gardening receives ample sunlight. Most people prefer to grow the culinary herbs in their kitchen in containers. When you are growing them in pots or containers, you can place the pot in sunlight during day hours. Herbs also do not require frequent watering.
Harvesting of herbs is extremely important after their complete growth. If you do not harvest them on time, they will consume lots of plant energy and thus it will resist the plant growth.
You can plant the herbs in your flower garden or the vegetable garden. You can chop off the healthy portion of herbs when required. Some herbs are suitable for landscaping while some have culinary and medicinal use. It would be more stressful to cut down the fully grown rosemary in your garden or the thyme that forms a uniform border for your garden. But remember that these herbs can grow again and again.
Landscape herbs will add glory to your home while culinary herbs will add value to your meals. You can prune the herbs to encourage the fresh leafy growth of the healthy plant.

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Harvest Herbs Tips

Herbs are the plants grown in the gardens for the purpose of flavor, scent, or medicine. There are many herb plants that can be added in cooking to get the special taste for your recipe. The herb gardens can be planted in the minimum space in your flower garden. If you don’t have flower garden in your backyards, you can also plant these herb gardens in the containers and keep these containers in your balcony or kitchen. Such gardens are called kitchen herb gardens. When you are planting such gardens, it is important to know the proper herb gardening tips so that you can easily grow and maintain these gardens.

Herbs are the wild plants that generally do not require much attention for growing. When you have planted the herbs in your garden, you must wait till the herbs are ready for harvesting. When they grow completely, they should be harvested on time. The article discusses some tips for harvesting the herbs. For long term preservation, it is important to follow the proper harvesting tips and store the herbs after harvesting in right way.

Harvesting the Herbs

It is important to choose the proper harvesting time for harvesting the herbs. Harvest them after complete growth. The inappropriate time and weather may cause disintegration of oil in herbs. It is best to harvest the herbs in the morning. The soil is moist during the early morning hours that will prevent the herbs from producing rich amount of oil and the oil will remain stored in the herb. It is usually done after the dew has evaporated from leaves of herb before blossoming.
It is not possible to harvest the herb completely. It is suggested to keep one third part for regeneration of plant. Whenever you harvest the herbs, it is important to check the insects on the herbs and remove the affected leaves from the plant for future use.

Freezing is the best process for storing the herbs. It is most often used for storing the culinary herbs. Parsley, thyme, basil, coriander, celery, oregano, etc. are some of the herbs that are frozen for storing. You can add them directly in your recipe.

The herbs like lavender and borage need to be harvested before they are fully grown. If you want the herbs for seeds, harvest them when they begin to change color. The root crops like golden seal should be dug at the end of the summer or at the time of early fall.
Below are some tips for harvesting your garden herbs:
• Give sufficient time for new plants for growing in the garden before the first harvest
• Harvest the herbs on the same day when you will use them to preserve their freshness
• Do not harvest one third of plant at a time
• Use sharp scissors for making cut on stem and do not pluck the leaves
• Harvest the culinary herbs before the plant produces blooms
• While harvesting the annual herbs, harvest from the growing tip of the stem to increase the leaves and reduce flowering

The herb gardening tips will help you to know the proper harvesting techniques for different types of herbs. You can follow these tips for maintaining your herb garden properly.

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Kitchen Herb Gardens

Kitchen Herb Gardens

A herb is a plant that is mainly used to add flavor or scent to the food or used for medicinal purpose or for its other qualities. Some of the herbs are also used for spiritual purposes. The herb garden is the special place assigned in your garden for growing these herbs. Herb gardening can be carried out in minimal space. If you don’t have enough space in your backyard for gardening, you can plant your herb garden in your balcony or even in your kitchen. Such gardens are called kitchen herb gardens. Here you can grow some useful herbs and use them whenever necessary.

Herb Gardens:

The culinary herbs are the most popular herbs to grow in the garden. They can be used in cooking and seasoning can be integrated into the existing flower beds or grown separately near your kitchen. Planting the herb gardens is similar to planting the flower plants or vegetables. The major considerations to be kept in mind while planting herb gardens are to harvest at full flavor and never use any fertilizer or pesticide that is not labeled for use on edible plants.

Growing Culinary Herbs:

Herb gardens are easy to grow and they are resistant to diseases. Herb gardening is easy even for the beginners and it is also simple to harvest the herbs.

Kitchen Herb Gardening:

* While planting the herb gardens, pick the sunny site close to your kitchen. Herbs grow well in 6 to 8 hours of sunlight
* You can plant the herbs in the container and place the container in the balcony of the kitchen or in a place where it will receive maximum sunlight throughout daytime
* Water the herbs in the morning. Herbs don’t require much water and watering in the morning will dry the leaves quickly in the morning light
* Pinch the leaves from the top as the plant grows. This will help to increase the branches of the plant and produce good results
* While pinching, do not remove many leaves from the plant or it will be difficult for it to produce more leaves

Herb gardens are easy to maintain and require less attention. You can grow these gardens in any corner of your flower garden or even in your kitchen in some suitable containers.

Aromatic Herb Gardening

Aromatic Herb Gardening

The herb garden is the separate space allotted for growing herbs in your garden. These herb gardens may be the informal patches of plants or may be carefully designed to the point of arranging and clipping the plants to form specific patterns.

The Herb gardens may be purely functional or may include the blend of functional and ornamental plants. Herbs are generally used to add flavor in food while cooking. It may also be used for discouraging pests, medicinal purpose, and for providing pleasant scents. Herbs can also be used in cosmetic application.  

You can grow the useful herbs in a small place in your garden or even in your balcony. If you don’t have sufficient space for your garden, you can grow herbs in containers or pots. Following the proper herb gardening tips will make your garden bloom effectively. 

Aromatic Garden Herbs:

Aromatic herbs are the herbs producing fragrance. Aromatic herbs can spread the fragrance in the environment and keep the environment fresh. Aromatic herbs can be grown in the small space in your flower gardens or it can even be grown in your balcony. Before growing such herbs, it is important for you to know about the types of the aromatic herbs. The article discusses the information about some aromatic herbs which will help you in choosing the herbs for your garden.

Lavender is the famous fragrant herb that spires of purple flowers and gives fresh scent. Chamomile is another flowering herb having miniature daisy like flowers smelling faintly like apples. Hyssop and sage are some other aromatic herbs that were used to be strewn on floors so that it releases a fragrant aroma when walked upon. Small bouquets of tussie-mussies were made from aromatic herbs and flowers to conflict against diseases. Aromatic herbs and flowers were grown specifically for use in the still room where perfumes, remedies, soaps, flower waters and cosmetics were made from the home-grown plants.

Caraway scented thyme is another herb used for attracting bees and butterflies which are must for any gardening enthusiast. It has a small bushy appearance producing the delicate pink color flowers in summer. It is the member of mint family.

If you planted oil herbs in your garden, you can harvest them in morning as these herbs contain highest concentration of oil during this time.

There are many formal herb gardens using complex designs and patterns. You can start with a small garden and later develop it as you gain the experience.