Archives: 2007 September

A decision to grow useful plants may have roots in a love for nature, or because one comes across enticing culinary, medicinal, and other uses all of a sudden. It is tempting to procure seeds and cuttings from every available source, and to start planting as soon as possible. However, establishing an herb garden plan […]

When many people think of starting a garden, they have huge professionally-staffed public gardens like Longwood Gardens in Pennsylvania or Kew Gardens in England. Those gardens, while impossible to duplicate in your garden plot or window box, are also completely artificial. A huge public garden is manicured and coiffed within an inch of […]

An indoor herb garden project is a great way to get your kids interested in gardening. Because an indoor herb garden project is small in scale, kids don’t lose interest. And because herbs grow quickly, kids are quickly satisfied by the success of their indoor herb garden project. Because it is fun to eat what […]

There is no real hard line rules for herb garden design and they are mostly left to the imagination of the person planting them. Most are made in the tradition of old school squares or rectangles, divided in to smaller squares to make tending the gardens easy and less labor-intensive. Although share the theory from […]

Legendary American jazz guitarist Herb Ellis was christened Mitchell Herbert Ellis when he was born in 1921. Known almost as much for his controversial choices as for his eclectic style of jazz, Herb Ellis has earned a place in the halls of jazz history.
The Early Years
Surprisingly, Herb Ellis didn’t show an interest in […]

Let’s say that you have decided to try herb gardening, but you do not know the first place to start. You do not want to go to the store and look like you don’t know anything, and you have no idea where to find information on this form of gardening. You can try […]

Hundreds of years ago those in the practice of medicine used herbs, spices and other plants for formulations to cure many ailments of the time. Some of the herbs continue to be used, even in modern medicine, to help treat a variety of health issues. Most of those in use were realized through trial and […]