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Grow Your Own Veggies: A Step-by-Step Guide to Starting Seeds Indoors for a Bountiful Harvest
Starting vegetable seeds indoors is an excellent way to get a head start on your vegetable garden.
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The Best Way to Grow and Use Cucumbers
Cucumbers are a tender crisp vegetable with a high water content that thrive in tropical environments. They need lots of heat, sun, and water. the fruit are long, slender, and edible with seeds on the inside that are also edible. They are grown around the world as an annual plant. Cucumbers are an interesting vegetable because of their variety of uses. Usually when we talk about the benefits of a certain vegetable we are talking about internally or medicinally. With cucumbers their benefits are external and internal and they are just yummy! Types of Cucumber There are two types of growth patterns for cucumbers. Bush and Trailing. Both have their…
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How to Plant Guide: Thai Basil Care and Use
Thai Basil (Ocimum basilicum var. thyrsiflora) is a cultivar of the basil plant. A member of the mint family, its flavor is sweet, similar to sweet basil but with hints of anise, black licorice and spicy cinnamon. It has dark green leaves lightly variegated with a dark burgundy purple color where they branch off from the dark purple stem. The leaves are more narrow and pointed and the veins more prominent than in its sister Sweet Basil plant. The blossoms are dark purple to pale pink, lavender in color. Where Does Thai Basil Come From It is a type of basil used typically in Southeast Asia. It has been around for thousands…
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Best Herbs de Provence Recipe on the Internet
Herbs de Provence is an aromatic mix of fresh or dried herbs used in savory cuisines. This recipe will give you the basic ingredients to make your own Herbs de Provence. Lavender Lavender is becoming more and more popular thanks to food bloggers who like to try something a little bit different or unusual. I love when people try lavender in their cuisine for the first time. It’s definitely a flavor that you have to get used to but then again so are a lot of herbs and spices tried for the first time. In making this herby mixture I recommend dry roasting your lavender buds before adding them to…
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What is the Top Culinary Lavender
What is Lavender Lavender is an herb plant that is native to the Mediterranean and Western European areas. It was cultivated and spread around Europe for its many benefits and beauty. Since the 1500’s lavender has been a garden staple for many around the world. Lavender is used for its culinary, medicinal, and hygienic properties. Today we are talking specifically about its culinary properties so we can get to know this herb and its benefits. What is Culinary Lavender If you are looking for a different flavor to add to your recipes look no further that lavender. Culinary lavender is a cooking lavender. Recipes like roasted chicken, creme brûlée, lemonade,…
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Lavender Alleviates Symptoms of Seasonal Depression and Anxiety
Did you know that lavender has been proven to help alleviate symptoms of seasonal depression and anxiety? The chemical properties of lavender have been studied and show that they can help calm and relax as well as being antimicrobial. Dark, cold, melancholy, lonely, fearful…it’s interesting how all of these words can describe both winter and depression. There have been clinical studies showing that depression and anxiety get worse in the winter. There are many variables to each specific person and why this is the case for them but for me it has to do with hormones, chemicals, and lack of sunshine and activity. Cortisol is one of the fifty plus…
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The Best Strawberry & Cream Rhubarb Cake
Have you ever wondered what to do with the beautiful rhubarb you have been growing in your garden? Or you come across some beautiful stalks at the farmers market and just want to try them? If so, then rhubarb cake is the first recipe you should make.
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Top 7 Tips to Start a Garden
Are you overwhelmed with where to start in gardening? Do you need help knowing how to make a garden or what plants to grow? this article will help you understand the basics of where to start.
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Protect Your Herbs This Winter, Here are 7 ways.
Do you want to have fresh herbs year round but live in an area that has cold, hard winters? You need a way to protect your herbs over winter. I love fresh herbs in all of my recipes so over the years I have tried many overwintering methods and weeded out the ones that just won’t do. What is Overwintering Overwintering is the process by which some organisms pass through or wait out the winter, or pass through that period of the year when winter conditions make normal activity or even survival difficult or near impossible. In some cases winter is characterized not necessarily by cold but by dry conditions; passing…
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11 Mistakes to Avoid When Building Raised Garden Beds
There are so many methods of building raised garden beds that it’s hard to decide which method is best. In this article we will discuss the top 11 mistakes people make when converting their garden to raised beds, and how you can avoid them. The First thing you need to consider when deciding whether to convert your garden into a raised garden bed is what you want to make your raised bed out of. There are so many options out there. The deciding factor really will be your preference and the price. You can build a raised bed from scrap wood and save money, but consider first how long you…
