Cooks realize that most recipes will require herbs and spices as ingredients to flavor dishes. Instead of relying on herbs and spices purchased from the grocery store, gardeners can grow, harvest, and preserve their own.
Herbs make a great addition to a garden, but they can also be grown indoors as year-round houseplants or just during the winter months to protect tender herbs such as rosemary (Rosmarinus officinalis) or basil (Ocimum basilicum).
Herbs are some of the easiest plants to grow because they tolerate a variety of soil types and have relatively few insect and disease pests.
Ideas from Garden in the Park. This fact sheet discusses the following topics: the bed, the design, shopping list, and useful tools.
Some of our favorite tasty ways to share herbs from your garden, courtesy of Penn State Extension Master Gardeners of Allegheny county. Lavender shortbread, honey bee cookies, cinnamon basil and lime icebox cookies, and rhubarb cookies.
