Five Herb Growing Quick Tips

If you're eyeing those adorable, tiny herb starts at the garden center (in their beguiling little pots), you don't necessarily have to do a research marathon in order to get them installed successfully in your landscape. Although there are some exceptions, herbs aren't persnickety, and they're pretty grateful for anything you can give them. Those picturesque photos of herbs spilling out of old

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How to Grow Lavender and Use it in Cooking and Crafts

If you've visited here much, you know I love lavender. Over the years, I've written content about fun things you can do with your lavender harvest (for crafts, cooking and medicinal uses) and also about the literature and interesting history of my purple passion.

Since the lavender growing recap I posted a few days ago was so well received, I thought some of the following posts would make good

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Helpful Garden Reference Sites

If you garden, these spring and early summer weekends are so essential they can almost define the gardening experience. It's a time when you promise yourself you'll wear your gardening gloves -- but don't --warn yourself to bend from the knees -- but forget, vow to put in enough supports and cages to keep everything up off the ground later -- but once you see what a little aluminum cage (post,

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How to Grow Lavender

A big favorite at our house, lavender is one herb that does it all:
It's a beauty in the garden with gray foliage and flowers that can range from deep purple to white. 
 
It's aromatic in a way that can smell as wonderful on a young girl as it does on an octogenarian. (Actually, it has a clean fragrance that smells pleasant without being flowery.) 
 
It's a natural antibacterial and antifungal,

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How to Grow Passionflower

You really have to love any plant that has "passion" and "flower" blended in the same word. This little vine is a powerhouse of good characteristics that makes it worthy of its own little trellis or a spot along your fence -- or around your mailbox post. This American native is the state flower of Tennessee and grows wild there and points south.

Passionflower is more than a big purple climber,

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Become an Herb Adventurer

I just read a great article over at Eatocracy about becoming a food adventurer. Are you afraid to try new foods? That octopus salad or the strange black strips in hot and sour soup can seem downright ominous to the uninitiated.

Admit it: the world of gastronomic adventure isn't all fun-flavored Easter jelly beans (or Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Beans, either). Sometimes a mouthful of an

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Herb Gardens for Beginners - Here's an Idea

I'm going to say something controversial here in a minute. I think growing herbs is one of the absolute best beginning gardening projects -- that's not the controversial part. I think it's so compelling, fun and addictive that it'll pull you back to it year after year. If you can't invest the time and money to work your flowerbeds, can't afford to invest in those cunning looking raised bed

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