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Herb Gardening
The planting, growing, propagating, maintenance, harvesting, and uses of various herbs, for culinary, medicinal, decorative, and magical purposes.
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How long does spice stay in your body?
The three active components of spice are JWH-018, JWH-073, and JWH-250. These three chemicals are the ones that are looked for in a drug test. The JWH-018 and JWH-073 can still be detected in your urine for up to 72 hours. And when you are going to undergo oral fluid testing, the JWH-018, JWH-073, and JWH-250 can all be detected in your saliva from 24 to 48 hours after you ingest the drug.
Is a culinary herb and a medicinal herb the same?
Not necessarily, they can be ,but some medicinal herbs are not culinary, and some culinary are not medicinal.
Culinary - means an herb used in cooking to enhance or flavour a dish. Medicinal - means an herb used to treat an illness, disease, injury or other medical condition. Some herbs have one use or the other, while many can be and are used for both applications.
What are the 10 most common spices?
Lebanese Cuisine by Anissa Helou says that Seven Spices is a mixture of black and white pepper, allspice, cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg, and coriander; but cautions that there are regional and familial differences.
Note: Second House Spices uses the same blend as above.
Finally, ABIDO seven spices contains piment (allspice), black pepper, cinnamon, mahlab (sour cherry seeds), ginger, cloves, and nutmeg.
all;best if used fresh; just like fruits and vegtables, some do not taste as good frozen!
How can you get rid of worms on your basil plant?
A simple insecticidal soap will get rid of the fungus gnats without harming the basil. Pour 1 1/2 tbsp. of liquid castile soap, 1 qt. of water, and 3 drops of vegetable oil in a spray bottle. The liquid castile soap will kill the fungus gnats, and is natural so it won't affect the basil when you to eat the herb. Shake the ingredients in the spray bottle each time you want to use it. Aim the homemade insecticidal soap at the gnats and begin spraying.
Spray the basil plants once you are done spraying the gnats surrounding the plants so that all future gnats stay away from the basil. Reapply once per week to keep a new infestation from forming.
You are overwatering. Once you dry it out some, they will go away.
How do you use lemon balm in cooking?
Lemon balm can be used to produce an herbal tea, drunk as a beverage. It has a pleasing, lemony flavor, and makes an outstanding iced tea.
As a medicinal herb, lemon balm has many uses, including as a relaxing herb, and an anti-microbial agent (antiviral, antibacterial, and antifungal).
Traditionally most spices such as nutmeg, saffron etc come dried, so freezing offers little extra preservation. You'll just have frozen dried powders.
Fresher ingredients for flavouring like herbs can be frozen.
Garlic is a bulb plant. If you crack open a head of garlic, there are many cloves. Each clove is a new garlic waiting to sprout. :) Hardneck varieties grow scapes that later produce a flower head that has bulbils that can be planted and in a few years will produce garlic.
Is Sweet Basil related the the Cloves plant?
There are several different varieties of basil. The one usually used in Italian cuisine is sweet basil. Holy basil and lemon basil are different (but closely related) species, and Thai basil is the same species as sweet basil but a different variety (sort of like how poodles and dachshunds are both the same species, but you wouldn't likely mistake one for the other).
It has branched vascular veins in its leaf petals, it's roots spread out more vastly than a monocots would, and it also has 8 flower petals when it flowers?
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Perennials:-These plants are mostly shrubs and trees which alive for many years.They produce flowers,seeds and fruits year after year.E.g:-Mango,China Rose etc. A perennial plant is a plant the once it is planted and takes root - after it's annual appearance will go "dormant" in the ground - sometimes called "wintering over" but will return again each year- examples of these are bleeding hearts, mums, coreopsis, coral bells, and trillium. Annuals only last one season- (unless you live someplace really warm)- examples of annuals are impatiens and begonias. Biennials live for two years, a season of growth, and a second year of flowering - foxgloves are an example. All around the year. perennials are herbaceous, they completely die back to the ground, and return the next spring. these do not include "shrubs, trees etc" as these are "woodys" and the plant is alive during the dormant period but will grow from this wood the following year.
A perennial plant or simply perennial (Latin per, "through", annus, "year") is a plant that lives for more than two years.[1] The term is often used to differentiate a plant from shorter lived annuals and biennials. When used by gardeners or horticulturalists, perennial applies specifically to winter hardy herbaceous plants. Scientifically, woody plants like shrubs and trees are also perennial in their habit.
Perennials, especially small flowering plants, grow and bloom over the spring and summer and then die back every autumn and winter, then return in the spring from their root-stock rather than seeding themselves as an annual plant does. These are known as herbaceous perennials. However, depending on the rigors of local climate, a plant that is a perennial in its native habitat, or in a milder garden, may be treated by a gardener as an annual and planted out every year, from seed, from cuttings or from divisions. Perennial plants are plants that have a life span of more than two years. A perennial plant is a small flowering plant that will grow and bloom over the spring and summer, but die each autumn and winter and return back into the spring.
Rosemary is a long lived evergreen shrub, with both tall and creeping forms. Propagated from cuttings, which root easily in damp sand or even just water. As it is a shrub of mountainsides, it will grow under difficult conditions (for instance in pots, and dry places), not requiring much in the way of feeding or water. So it is not a perennial, coming to life again each season, but grows all the time.
What are the most common spices?
English foods use a lot of wheat flour and butter. Lamb, beef, and fish were favorite meats. English foods have tended to be very simple but since England once had an empire that spanned the globe, it borrowed cooking techniques and ingredients from all over the globe such as curry from India, potatoes from the Americas, and tea from China.
Papaya leaves and also the flower buds are eaten in Indonesia.They must be boiled (often with cassava leaves) to reduce their bitterness, then well drained and mixed with spices and freshly ground and roasted coconut flakes.
What are some culinary uses for tarragon?
I love using tarragon on chicken. just sprinkle some dried crushed leaves. It's delicious! Tarragon makes an excellent ingredient for infusing through vinegar. Just fill ajar with the bruised leaves, and pour warmed cider or wine vinegar over them. Seal and leave for two weeks, shaking daily. Then strain off the vinegar and bottle.
You can use it in a variety of dishes, although in sparing quantities as the flavor is quite strong. Also, cooking it for a long time can make it taste peculiar. Try it mixed in dressings and sauces, or in a herb butter. Rub it over uncooked chicken, fish or 'gamey' meats.
Use it in the same way you use regular basil - in tomato dishes, pesto, any vegetable, especially beans, peppers, eggplants, soups, and stuffings. Greek basil has the advantage over normal basil of having smaller leaves and softer stems. It's flavor is also quite strong.
Medicinally, it has antibacterial and antispasmodic properties, and can be applied to insect bites.
How long can you keep spices before they lose their flavor?
I hear the Egyptian pyramid have yielded lots of still edible items - including spices - thus, thousands of years for some.
When keeping spices, you should always have an air tight container. So long as that's the case, they should last as long as you have them in stock.
When do you plant Vietnamese coriander?
Vietnamese coriander - rau ram - is a tropical perennial and needs to be planted out after danger of frost. To carry it over from year to year move it indoors to a sunny location or a heated greenhouse in the autumn before the first frost.
It is also easily propagated from cuttings through out the year.
How much water does a basil plant need?
Sweet basil (Ocimum basilicum) when planted outdoors, likes lots of sun, rich soil and regular water. At least twice per week in summer, the leaves will start to droop if you aren't watering it enough. Container planting will need more frequent watering - perhaps once per day in hot weather.
Indoors basil needs regular watering by thorough soaking and draining, but should never be left standing in water or over-watered. once per week is usually good.
How do you care for potted basil?
Buy some seeds and put them into a pot with soil. Keep it humid. The plants will start growing after about 10 days. When you want to plant small basil-plants, take care, that they do get enough sun and no rain. They need lots of water, but they don't want water on the leafs. They grow best, when you keep them inside.
If you are asking this question you are poor loser. Just grow stuff regularly not using a hydroponic system well cya
Seeds are available in most reputable seed catalogs.
Plants are available seasonally in your local nursery.
Cut fresh herbs are sometimes available in health/natural food markets or from local growers.
Dried herb is often available in health/natural food stores and from some herbal medicine companies, enquirer at your local source for other herbs.
cumin, pepper, oregano, thyme, mint, garlic, bay leaf, rosemary, sage, basil
cumin, pepper, oregano, thyme, mint, garlic, bay leaf, rosemary, sage, basil,
turmeric, cloves, cinnamon.
