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How to Grow Herbs – Indoor or Outdoor Herb Gardens

By Annie

Once you know how to grow herbs, you can easily start your own indoor or outdoor herb garden! If you've never grown herbs, you are in for a treat. Fresh herbs taste incredible compared to the dried herbs you can buy at the supermarket. There is just no comparison. At all.  And once you start growing some of your own herbs, you might just add a few different herb plants to your garden next … [Read more...]

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Best Herbs To Grow Indoors

By Annie

Our list of the best herbs to grow indoors - plant a mini herb windowsill garden today! A windowsill Herb garden is a wonderful thing! Here are our favourite herbs and spices you can grow indoors year-round.  The best thing about growing herbs and spices indoors is that you don’t have to worry about how hot or cold the weather is. You also don’t have to worry about whether or not the … [Read more...]

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How to Grow Lovage – A Perennial Herb

By Annie

Lovage plant with closeup of one large lovage stem with leaves.

Here's how to grow Lovage, a delicious perennial herb that adds a celery flavor to your meals. Have you ever heard of Lovage? What IS it? This hardy perennial is not a common plant and many people have never heard of it. Lovage is a wonderful plant that gets quite large and is suitable to be planted in hardiness zones 3-9. Generally, it prefers any zone with a cool climate. Lovage … [Read more...]

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Growing and Using Stevia

By Annie

Growing a stevia plant to use for sugar

Stevia is an easy herb to grow even as a houseplant. Plant some this year and grow stevia to use in place of sugar. Last Spring, I came across some Stevia (Stevia rebaudiana) plants while picking up some bedding plants. I remember just a few years ago, even stevia seeds were hard to find and they were very expensive. Finding growing Stevia plants was impossible, at least here in south central … [Read more...]

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