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Learn To Grow Herbs
February 22nd, 2010 | 
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Herb and Gardening Books
If you want to learn to do something new, study the subject, but more importantly – get in there and just DO it!
*Disclaimer* This advice does not apply to fields such as surgery, welding, or electrical work.
- How to Grow Herbs-Gardening Books
I am a huge believer in learning. Not just studying for the test learning, but learning for the sheer joy of getting new things into my head.
Over the years I have amassed a huge home library. Since my kids have all been homeschooled they are voracious readers like me… Heck, I even have a few librarians in the mix.
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what kinds of herbs there were
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did I like any of them?
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could I grow them?
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what could I do with them?
Having figured those things out by actually learning to grow herbs, I decided I wanted to become a herbalist. I took all kinds of classes. I took online classes. I studied. I harvested herbs, dried them, and made herbal medicines. I just did it.
Then I wanted to design a pretty herb garden. I wanted to add shrubs, perennials and other plants to the herb garden mix. So I bought books. I tooks classes. I designed gardens for myself. Mostly not pretty.
Several years ago my eldest son completed a degree in Landscape Architecture at the University of Illinois and even graduated with honors. Do you think I could get the kid to help design an attractive herb garden for his mother? Not on your life. So, I still make ghastly messes, dig plants up and try new things. As a result I have more experience in what NOT to do than most people could ever hope for.
In conclusion-
Point # 1
Besides my painfully obvious Adult ADD, my point is that you can learn something new and experiment with it! Even if it’s just starting out small with a book and one little container of some easy-peasy beginner herbs- go for it.
So you tried and it didn’t work? Well Yippee, you have learned how not to do something! You can clean up the mess later.
Point #2,
You should also visit your library. There is much Fabulosity to be had in the books and videos there!
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Tags: beginner herbs, garden design, Growing herbs, Growing Herbs Indoors, Herb Garden | 
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Peekaboo Chives
Anyone who knows me knows that I love my chives.
I think they are the easiest culinary herb in the western world. Chives are fast growing, quick to cook with (very little prep time) and they are one herb that I’ll grab to add a mild oniony flavor at the last minute of cooking…or just use freshly snipped.
In the fall I bring in a pot or two of Chives and keep them in the kitchen window. These pots will go for a month or two and provide me with fresh chives. They do like a rest period though, so I also keep several small pots on ’standby’ just outside my backdoor. This usually means those pots are buried in ice and snow for awhile, but they like it! The plants rest and are dormant during this time.
Eventually the chives I brought inside in October start to look tired. I don’t fertilize them at this point, but instead I set them outdoors and just bring in a new pot.
The old pot gets a needed rest and the chives that have been dormant and resting in the snow for a few months are ready to get growing again.
For them Spring has Sprung-even if they come indoors during a January blizzard!
Here is what they look like as dormant plants:
Dormant Chives in the Snow
I have tidied them up a bit and just several days later you can see they are growing like crazy.
- Chives Waking up
They will come inside, get new pots, and get big enough to use in no time!
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Tags: cooking with herbs, Growing herbs, Growing Herbs Indoors, weather |
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