Turmeric’s flavor is most commonly compared to mustard, its growing style is the same as ginger. Though it won’t survive a cold winter, it can be grown indoors in a greenhouse year-round, or outside anywhere that temperatures don’t fall below 65 degrees for most of the year. Like ginger, Turmeric is started from a section of … More Helpful Herbs: Turmeric
While the Sugar Maple Tree isn’t exactly a herb, its sweet syrup is a staple feature of every New England spring. Maple trees can be planted on your property, but often you’ll find them already in abundance in wooded areas. Tapping and processing their sap will give you fresh, home made maple syrup. The Sugar … More Helpful Herbs: Sugar Maple
Bay Laurel can be a 60 foot tall tree in the wilds of our Southern states. But in cooler climates, in culinary gardener’s backyards, it is a fun plant to grow in a container and enjoy in your cooking. And, perhaps surprisingly, it has some great benefits for your health as well. Since Bay Laurel … More Helpful Herbs: Bay Laurel
The Columbine plant is a hardy wildflower that thrives in cooler climates. Their unique flowers make a beautiful addition to any garden, and they are useful for their healing properties as well. Columbines’ flowers are bell-like and spurred, and their name is Latin for “dove” as the blossoms are said to resemble five doves clustered … More Helpful Herbs: Columbine
A hardy perennial with fernlike leaves and clusters of aromatic flowers, Yarrow was is a wild flower with a rich history in healing. The bright flowers of the Yarrow plant make it a pretty feature in any garden, and its resilience makes it easy to grow in many climates. Yarrow is usually started from seed and, since … More Helpful Herbs: Yarrow
Easy to grow, and thriving wild in almost any soil, tansy is one of the easiest herbs you can add to your garden and it will reward you with dozens of medicinal properties. The negative side of growing tansy is that it is an invasive plant, and will take over your garden if not carefully controlled. A … More Helpful Herbs: Tansy
Did you know you can grow and harvest your own black peppercorns? If you can keep the plant warm enough, you can cultivate this vine and provide your family with home harvested table pepper. The plant that produces the peppercorns we’re used to grinding up on our food is called the Black Pepper plant. The … More Helpful Herbs: Black Pepper
A little plant that packs a punch, that is arnica. This incredibly helpful little herb is a major healer, and it grows like a weed – probably because it was a mountain and marshland weed for centuries before becoming part of our herb gardens. Mountain arnica is a hardy plant that can be grown easily in … More Helpful Herbs: Arnica
Anise, or aniseed, is a pretty, easy to grow flowering herb with a distinctive odor and a boot-load of benefits. Sowing anise in your herb garden will give you a tall, leafy plant that bears beautiful, small yellow flowers. Typically grown from seed, anise likes full sun and well drained soil. Anise is not cold … More Helpful Herbs: Anise
Aromatic, tasty, easy to grow, and easy to cook with, mustard is a must for your herb or vegetable garden. You can grow it alongside your lettuce and spinach and take a few clippings for your salads, or keep it with your herbs and enjoy its brilliant yellow flowers and valuable seeds. It is quite … More Helpful Herbs: Mustard
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