1. Home
  2. Home & Garden
  3. Herb Gardens

Herb Gardens: Most Popular Articles

These articles are the most popular over the last month.
Indoor Herb Gardens
Growing an indoor herb garden is a great way to extend the gardening season. Find out what you need to grow your herbs indoors, right here!
Compost
How to make your own compost and how to make your own compost bin. Making compost is easy to do and requires very little effort. Here is how to get started.
Bacteria And Herbs
What is bacteria and how does it affect an herb garden?
Vermiculture
Vermiculture is an easy way for herb gardeners to add rich nutrients to their gardens. It is a small enough system to fit under an apartment sink and uses kitchen scraps as food for the worms. Check it out!
Growing Herbs Indoors
Learn how to grow a kitchen herb garden, for delicious additions to everyday cooking. Grow a kitchen herb garden in a simple container, that is also a lovely decoration for your home.
Planting Roses
Planting a rose requires some planning and digging but is easy for even a beginning gardener.
Best Herbs For Containers
Container gardening with herbs, is a great way to offer beauty and color to your entry or patio area. Here are my choices for the 5 best herbs to grow in containers.
5 Best Herbs For Containers
Container Gardening with herbs is a great way to offer beauty and color to your entry or patio area. Here are my choices for the 5 best herbs to grow in containers.
Green Manure
Green manures are a great way to add organic nutrients to your soil. Here is how to choose and plant green manure for your garden.
Best Herbs To Fight Swine Flu
These 5 herbs that combat swine and bird flu symptoms, may already be in your herbal cupboard!
Plant Growlight
Review of a plant growlight that fits into a common household lamp.
dehydrator
How to use a food dehydrator to dry herbs for storage.
Worm Bin
Making a worm bin is an easy and fun way to compost your kitchen scraps. A worm bin is perfect for a small apartment and indoor herb gardening because it takes up little room and produces no odor. Here is how to do it!
Slippery Elm
Slippery Elm is used for a wide array of herbal remedies. It is a nutritious and soothing ingredient for throat and cold recipes, an important ingredient for IBS sufferers and much more.
Medicinal Herb Garden
There are many herbs that offer healing abilities. If you are interested in learning more about herbs used to heal, here is my list of the top 5 herbs for a medicinal herb garden.
Chamomile
chamomile is a well known and gentle herb. It is easy to grow and makes a wonderful ground cover as well as a useful garden addition. Find out more about chamomile here!
Fungi and Herbs
What is fungi and how does it attack an herb garden?
Cilantro
Cilantro is a fresh, distinct tasting herb that is essential to Latin cooking. It is an ingredient that evokes strong emotions of love or hate in all who experience its flavor. Here are some ideas for growing cilantro and how to use it in everyday cooking.
Best Ways To Profit From Herbs
Making money with herbs from your herb garden, takes creative planning. You do not need a large area to grow them either. A small container garden of herbs, mixed with some ideas for sales, can equal a nice income. Find out more here.
Best Perennial Herbs
Perennial herbs are a great way to add beauty to your landscaping. Here are my 5 best perennial herbs for any herb gardener to grow.
Make Your Own Garden Spray
Make your own spray to repel the biting and sucking bugs in your garden. This spray is safe to ingest but washing herbs before eating is still recommended.
Sage
Although best known as an ingredient in poultry stuffing, Sage has been used medicinally for thousands of years. In the Middle ages, Sage was thought to promote longevity. One legend says its healing comes directly from the Virgin Mary.
Herbal Cough Drops
How to make herbal cough drops for the cold and flu season
5 Best Indoor Herb Garden Herb
The most successful indoor herb gardens are well planned. Even if your style is more relaxed, the compact design that a kitchen windowsill offers, means that every herb should multi task. Here are my choices for the 5 best herbs in an indoor herb garden.
Make Hand Rubbed Sage Powder
Dry sage leaves until crisp.
What is Fennel
Fennel is a popular culinary and medicinal herb. It is naturally sweet tasting, beautiful in the garden, and an irresistible draw to the fantastic Swallowtail butterfly.Learn more about fennel here.
Recycled Seed Pots
Here is a cheap and easy way to make your own seed pots out of newspaper.
Training Climbing Roses
Climbing roses are known for looking stunning, as they cascade with blooms. Here is how to grow and train your climbing rose to create this amazing look.
Peppermint
Peppermint is a refreshing and familiar tasting herb. Learn how to grow it, what to do with it and a bit of history behind this lovely herb.
Mixing Herbs For Tea
Learn how to make your own herb tea blends.
Knot Garden
A formal knot garden is a fascinating endeavor. It can be as elaborate as you wish, using not only herbs but special additions to make it uniquely your own. Find out what herbs work well in a knot garden and some tips for busy gardeners.
Stevia
Stevia has long been used as a replacement for sugar. It is extremely sweet - up to 300 times as sweet as table sugar, and has a light licorice aftertaste in its raw form.
Herbal Body Powder
Here is how to make herbal body powder for all types of skin.
Parsley
Parsley is a fresh tasting, easy to grow herb. It has a place in any cook's garden. Find out how to grow and use parsley here.
How To Make Tincture At Home
Make your own echinacea tincture.
Rosemary
Rosemary has a distinct taste that finishes many fine dishes. It is easy to grown and likes to live in container gardens and indoor gardens alike. Rosemary can be pruned into fantastic sculpture and when dried, keeps its heady scent. Find out more about this useful herb.
Herbal Tea Gardens
Here is a book that can be considered all in one. It gives a list of herbs, how to grow them and wonderful garden plans. If you are simply looking for herbal tea recipes, the book is packed full of them!
Choosing Containers for Herbs
Choosing a container for gardening is a great way to add your personality to your herbal spaces! Here are some considerations when picking out just the right container.
Oregano
Oregano is the most popular herb in an Italian seasoning mixture. Easy to grow and extremely fragrant, Oregano should have a place in any cook's garden.
What To Do In The Fall Garden
Fall means time to start getting ready for the winter dormancy.Fall herb garden maintenance is a short list of simple chores that will make your herb garden healthy in the new garden season.
Common Herb Garden Mistakes
Herb gardening seems to be in a class all its own. For some reason, many gardeners who wouldn't think twice about planting 25 different types of tomatoes, won't consider starting their own cilantro. There is no reason not to start your very own herb garden. Here are the top 10 most common mistakes in herb gardening and how to avoid them.
Sweet marjoram
Sweet marjoram is a full flavored herb, used in many Italian and Greek dishes. Sweet marjoram is a must have for a kitchen herb garden.
Red Clover
Red clover is found virtually everywhere that there is adequate moisture and light. It is an exceptional tonic herb and delicious medicinal for women and children.
Red Raspberry Leaves
Red raspberry leaves are a staple in herbal tea making. They are easy to grow, easy to find and delicious! Find red raspberry leaves in the wild or grow a bush yourself. Here are some other ideas for this soothing, nutritive herb.
Elderberry - The Flu Remedy
Elderberry is a delicious wild berry, proven to be useful for fighting flu. It can be made into a tincture, tea, syrup or other tasty remedy.
Excalibur Food Dehydrator
This dehydrator is perfect for drying all types of herbs. The adjustable thermostat ensures even, complete drying. Well crafted, with easy to clean trays and liners, the Excalibur is all you will ever need for dehydrating your entire garden harvest.
Dandelion
Dandelion deserves a place of honor in any herb lover's garden. Every part of the plant is useful. It is well worth a closer look.
Stevia Sweetener
Don't bother spending money on stevia packets that taste horrible. Try making your own liquid stevia for mere pennies.
FrenchTarragon
French Tarragon is an undervalued herb in American gardens. It has a unique taste, that belongs in every cook's garden.
Shepard's Purse For Bleeding
Shepherd's purse is a common herb, found across North America. You may have seen it in overgrown lots and country roads. Its unassuming nature hides its important benefit to the herbal world.
Temperature For Indoor Gardens
Temperature is an important consideration when indoor gardening. Let's take a look at why temperature is important and how it affects your indoor herbs.
Repel Pests
Here are some ideas for herb garden pest control. Organic choices may be just what you need! Read more information here about what organic means to control pests in the herb garden.
Basil
Basil grows well both indoors and out. It is an easy herb to grow from seed and rewards the gardener with an abundant crop from just a few plants. Find out more ways to use basil here.
Moisture Crystals
Polymer water crystals are the perfect way to keep the proper moisture content in a container garden. These crystals, absorb a tremendous amount of water, releasing it as the soil around them dries out.
Herbs For The Hair
Herbal hair care is a gentle way to rinse and add shine to your hair. Herbs can help with many issues that we all face: dryness, dandruff, oily, grey hair. Try this easy to make herbal rinse.
Make Chamomile Shampoo
Here is an easy to make herbal shampoo that brings highlights to blond hair and it is all natural. If your hair is anything but blond, you will still enjoy the light scent. Find out how!
Chives
Chives are one of the most well known herbs, but often one of the least used. Everyone seems to know someone growing chives. Many of us only know chives as a decorative touch on a baked potato and they never seem to get used to their full potential.
Coriander
Coriander is a double duty herb. It offers two distinct tastes and can be grown in a variety of garden styles. Find out more about this herb here!
Garden in a pail
This organic herb kit comes in a bucket for growing, and fits nicely on a desk.
Herbal Head lice Removal
Here are a list of Herbs for head lice. These can be made into simple remedies to combat head lice infestation.
Raised Bed Gardens
How to make a raised bed garden and what materials they are made from. Here are some basic ideas about raised bed gardens and why you may want one.
Herb Garden Design
Design an herb garden using simple organization. Where you plant and how you plant, will be just as important as what you are going to plant in your herb garden.
Basil Spread Recipe
Basil spread is savory and rich. It tastes great as a condiment for all your summer dishes. With a few ingredients, make it into the star of your next evening meal.
Thyme
Thyme is a fragrant and useful herb. It is a classic ingredient in soup,stews and meats seasonings. Thyme has many growth habits and is a low maintenance plant, making it perfect for every garden.
Herb Gardens - HowTos
An index of HowTos for the Herb Gardens guide site.
Mix the Perfect Soil
The nicest feature about a raised bed garden, is that you can create the perfect growing medium to fill it with.
Self Watering Container
Self watering containers are useful for people who do not have a lot of extra time to water their garden. It is a good way to keep smaller deck gardens watered and an easy way to prevent overwatering.
Lemon Verbena
Lemon verbena is prized for its pure lemon flavor. Highly sought after for herb tea blends, this tall showy herb, grows beautifully both indoors and out.
Herb Gardens - QuickTips
An index of QuickTips for the Herb Gardens guide site.
Herb Mixes and Spicy Blends
A handy book about unique ways to use your herbs. Recipes include fresh as well as dried herbs. You will never again wonder what to do with that extra thyme you harvest.
Dandelion ID
With over 150 different related species to the common dandelion, how do you know what a true dandelion looks like?
Preserving Herbs
For crafting, you can preserve some herbs with glycerin. Here is an easy method that involves very little work but lots of time. Take a look!
Mullein
Mullein is an emollient herb, good for cough and cold formulas
Watering Herbs
Here are some ways to water your herb garden without all the backbreaking work of pulling hoses around the yard daily. See if any of these ideas will work for you. Efficient watering is better for both you and your garden.
Rose Variety
Roses come in many colors and varieties. Let's take a look at the different kinds of roses and find one that fits your needs. Find out more about roses here.
The Herb Companion
This is a great place for herb information and how to use the herbs that you grow.
Marsh mallow
Marsh mallow is a useful, soothing herb, with many uses. Find out how to incorporate marsh mallow into your herb garden for beauty and medicinal value.
Bay
Bay is known for its delicious taste as well as the beauty of the plant itself. Find out more about this often overlooked herb.
Herb Topiary
Create a masterpiece with a wire and your favorite herb plant. A Topiary is perfect for indoor decorating or as a centerpiece for a formal garden. Here are the easy steps you need to take.
Lavender
Long revered in literature as a herb of love, Lavender is a key ingredient in soaps and shampoos, sachets, perfumes and seasonings. This beautiful herb is known for its gentle effectiveness for everyone. The fragrance is classic and recognizable.
Identifying Problems
The first step in the eradication of any problems in your herb garden is to find out if the problems are a fungus or insect. Here is how to identify problem issues in your garden.
Make Rosewater At Home
A hydrosol is simply a flower water. We have all heard of rose water, how about making your own! Try it with any strongly scented blossoms of your choice.
Dyer's Garden
Dyeing your own natural materials can be a hobby by itself. Try growing these wonderful herbs and create a rainbow of colors for your yarns and fabrics. Here are just a few ideas for an easy Dyer's herb garden.
Herbal Hair Dye
Using herbs to make your own hair color, is a fun way to try out a new look, without using harsh chemicals that can damage your hair. Try this easy to make herbal haircolor.
Create Your Herbal Table
Farmers markets are available across the country. You probably have one near you that is going on from late spring to late fall. This is a great place to sell your herbal products, plants and other items, as well as create a customer base for any time of year.
Miracle Gro Organic Choice
Organic potting soil available for the home gardener.
Dandelion Jelly
An easy recipe for herbal jelly, using dandelion blossoms.
Nettles
The nettle is a medicinal powerhouse of nutrients. They are also perfectly at home in the cook's kitchen. Often misunderstood, nettles should be reconsidered as a healthy addition to your cooking and herbal medicine chest.
Damage In The Garden
Beneficial Orb spider in the herb garden
Herbal Infusion
An herbal infusion is steeping herbs in hot water to extract their medicinal properties. It is an easy way to administer a tonic, or small dose of a healing herb.
Produce Indoor Chives
This tip will ensure that your indoor chives grow thick and lush this winter.
Peat Moss
Peat moss is a component of good indoor potting mix.
Recycle Your Herbs
What do you do with your extra, dried herbs each year? Here is a quick tip for using them.
Herb Flowers to Eat
Growing herbs for their flowers gives you another way to use them! Learn what flowers are edible in the cultivated garden and growing wild. Herbal flowers are delicious!
Seed Packets
make your own seed packets
Garlic
Garlic is a well loved herb, easy to grow, it is used in many types of cooking.
Herb Garden Safety
When growing edible plants, there are a few precautions necessary for a good outcome. Here are some things to avoid.
Dandelion Infused Oil
How to make dandelion infused oil in a few, easy steps. This oil can be rubbed on aching joints and muscles. Dandelion oil is simple to make and very useful.
What Is A Liniment
A liniment is an external muscle rub.
Plantain - What is Plantain?
Plantain is a common herb that has many surprising uses.
Grow Bags
The perfect solution for anyone without room to garden in the ground, or to simply extend your herb gardens upwards.
How to Make Violet Sugar
Making violet flavored sugar is easy and results in a delicately flavored treat. Try making some this year and give as an unusual gift for the holidays.
Fencing
There are many types of fencing to consider. If you know what is bothering your garden, you can choose the right fencing to deter the problem.
Drying Herbs
After all the work of growing perfect herbs, it would be a shame to waste any. Drying herbs is a great way to keep them fresh tasting and lovely all the year long. Here are a few ways to dry your herbs properly.
Savoryherb
Savory actually can be two different types of herb: The annual summer savory and the perennial winter savory. Both savory types are very strongly flavored herbs that can lend a great kick of taste to fish, mayonnaise, potato and cheese dishes.
Dill
Dill is a showy herb, with a tall, thin stem and airy flowers. Most recognized in pickles, dill offers great taste to fish, summer salads and dressings. Dill dries very well and is most commonly found this way. Because of its height, dill makes a lovely backdrop to other herbs or even in a landscaping layout. It can add height and drama to an otherwise hard to garden area.
Borage
Borage is a lovely herb. It can be used for a beautiful decorative planting, delicious food item and a medicinal food.
Container Gardens
A container garden is an easy way to have a lot of control over your herbs. It is a perfect solution to poor soil conditions, small growing spaces and containers lift the herbs to an easier level to work with. This is great for people with trouble getting right on the ground.
Overwatering Signs
Overwatering your herbs is just as harmful as no enough moisture. Here is how to tell if your herbs are receiving too much water.
Attracting Benefical Insects
Attracting beneficial insects with herbs, will help your garden become better pollinated and healthier.
Grow A Garden For Less
Growing an herb garden without breaking your budget is possible! How to grow a garden on a budget is a must read for anyone watching their spending habits. Find out more here!
5bestherbstorepeldeer
Deer control is a serious issue for urban gardens as well as country gardens. Before you resort to drastic chemical or expensive fencing measures, try planting some of these wonderful herbs for a natural deer repellent.
Earthbox
Self watering containers are the perfect solution for gardeners with little space, full time jobs and more.
Fast Herbal Vinegar
Making herb flavored vinegars for health and taste.
Herbal Help For Poison Ivy
Jewelweed is the perfect remedy for all sorts of skin irritations, especially poison ivy. Learn how to prepare this handy herb for any future outbreaks you may have.
Ornamental Herbs
What is an ornamental herb? How can you choose one for your landscaping design? Here are some ideas for great ornamental herbs.
Moldy Herbs
Why do my herbs have mold and mildew? What can I do about it?
Bestchildgardenherbs
Best herbs for creating a child's herb garden
Chive Vinegar
Make a delicious, spicy vinegar from chive blossoms.
Underwatering Herbs
Keeping your herbs watered is very important for herb health. Learn 5 signs that your plants need water.
Natural Repellents
If you hate the smell and toxicity of traditional moth balls, try using herbs to repel moths. The scent is far better, and not full of dangerous chemicals.
Bees For Sale
With the decline in bee population, it may be important to purchase bees to pollinate your herb garden. We ordered a hive of pollinating bees for our herb gardens. We realized that there was no bee activity, other than wasps, on our property. Plants were flowering, but not producing fruit. Our herbs were not seeding.
How Herbs Are Made Into Oils
Essential Oil is made from herbs. Here is some information on how essential oil is made.
Rose Companion
Here is a quick tip for what to plant with your roses.
Calendula
Calendula or pot marigold is a familiar sounding herb to most of us. It is also used for a wide range of things that can help the gardener in us as well as the herbalist. Here you will find more about calendula.
Cleavers
Cleavers are found in woods and along streams. It is a viney sort of wildflower, often found growing in a thick, slightly prickly mat. With its tiny white flowers and clingy habit, cleavers is often overlooked for the helpful herb that it is.
Make Perfect Cup of Tea
This is how to make the perfect cup of herb tea.
Bring In Oregano
Bring in your oregano herb to grow in an indoor herb garden
Arthritis Herbal Formula
How to make an herbal formula that will help with your pet's arthritis.
Saute Dandelion Greens
Dandelion greens are a tasty springtime treat. They are considered a potherb, which means they are the greens parts of a plant that are eaten. High in vitamin C and iron, dandelion greens are good for you as well as good tasting.
Pruning Brambles
Pruning bramble bushes produces a healthier plant and will ensure that you have all the leaves you will ever need. It is easy to do. This article will explain why it is so important.
Herbal Poultice
How to make a fresh poultice to heal a bite or soothe an inflamation.
Indoor Herb Gardening
Indoor herb gardening is a great way to extend your growing season throughout the year. Here are some tips for growing herbs in an indoor area.
Lavender Ice Cream
A refreshing and unusual flavor, lavender ice cream, is a sophisticated taste that everyone will enjoy.Try this recipe with any herbs that you enjoy!
Fertilizing Herbs
What fertilizers are best for herb growth
Galactagogue
Galactagogue herbs
Herbal Rooting Hormone
For a natural approach to rooting your herb cuttings, make willow water.
Cathartic
Causing rapid purging.
FallPottedHerbs
Tips on buying potted herbs in the fall season to save money.
Lemongrass
Lemongrass herb is a brightly scented and flavored culinary herb. It is easy to grow and has a pleasant lemon taste.
Holiday Cooking Herbs
My pick for the top 5 herbs for holiday cooking
Echinacea
Echinacea is a well known herb. It is used for healing as well as a stunning border accent.
Indoor Herb Garden Fertilizing
How to fertilize an indoor herb garden.
Air Circulation
Air circulation is crucial for a healthy indoor herb garden. This combats insect infestation and bacterial infection. Allow airflow by opening door
Bee Balm
Bee balm is a stunning herb, that will be a striking focal point for your garden. It also tastes wonderful in tea and has medicinal benefits. Truly a multipurpose herb, bee balm is a must have.
Remove Ants From Herb Gardens
Ants can quickly become a problem in a container garden. Here is an easy way to rid your herbs of them.
Wildcraft Board Game
This fast paced game is fun for any age. Learn about local plants to help with common ailments. Great gift idea for family game night.
Lemon Balm Soda
This is a refreshing twist on prepackaged soda. The delicate lemon taste is tangy enough to quench your thirst, while the sparkle from the carbonation, is a delicious change from plain herb tea.
Transplanting Rosemary
Press spade into earth as far away from the herb as the width of the widest foliage.
6bestmexicanherbs
If you want to kick up your Mexican night, try growing these 6 herbs and put a little kick in your Latino Cooking!

Explore Herb Gardens

About.com Special Features

Home Allergy Center

Banish mess, reduce allergens, and maintain a clean, healthy home. More >

Home Improvements Made Easy

Inspirational ideas and expert tips to help you pull off your next DIY project. More >

  1. Home
  2. Home & Garden
  3. Herb Gardens

©2009 About.com, a part of The New York Times Company.

All rights reserved.