Have you ever bought a seedling from a nursery or hardware store that came with a little plastic-y garden marker stake to help identify it? They are totally useful for telling which plant is which (especially when they’re young!), but they sure are ugly! So I decided to make something a little more fun!
My friend Melissa from The … {Read the rest!}
Remember the super cute flower pots I painted last year for our indoor herb garden? Well, they were adorable, but I totally forgot to seal them after I painted them, so the paint job didn’t last very long. Oops! So this year I decided to start all over from scratch and do it right! I painted a new set of flower pots, added … {Read the rest!}
We had so much mint from our little indoor herb garden this year that I decided to make tea out of a bunch of the dried leaves. And of course, that meant I needed to make homemade tea bags as well!
It’s such a simple and easy thing to do; if you grow your own mint (or chamomile, or whatever) … {Read the rest!}
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Now that the weather is cooling down, it's time to start thinking about a fall garden. It's the perfect time to plant trees or shrubs outdoors, or if you can't garden outdoors, plant some fall flowers indoors! If you're ready to work on your … {Read the rest!}
Today I want to share a quick tip for drying your herbs. Drying herbs isn’t rocket science; basically you cut some parts off of the plant and set them out or hang them up to dry. It’s easy enough, but sometimes it takes a lot of time for all the water to evaporate out.
You can drastically reduce the time … {Read the rest!}
It’s finally time to start harvesting my herbs! Actually, I’ve been harvesting my herbs for a while, I was just still calling it “pruning” instead of “harvesting”.
There is a difference between pruning and harvesting herbs, but it’s a fairly small one
Remember my first post about how to prune your herbs? The gist of it was that when you … {Read the rest!}
A little while ago I was on the phone with my mom and she was telling me that her basil plants aren’t producing as much as she would like. She has basil, but her tomatoes aren’t ripe yet, and every time she harvests some basil the plant doesn’t really seem to regrow. She’s worried that by the time the tomatoes … {Read the rest!}
