Herb Gardening

For an image that will show you clearly what urugula -- also known as "rocket" -- looks like, see the Related Link.

yes ,after the plant has begun to grow again and after any danger of frost has passed. The old stems, although unsightly, protect new growth. According to Global Garden.com, many gardeners recommend waiting to prune until you see new shoots emerging near the base of the plant.

Trim your salvia very low in the summer to encourage re-blooming. Wait until your salvia has enjoyed a burst of early summer blooms, then cut the long stalks back deeply, removing at least half of the plant. If you have a mass planting of salvia, the plants will be at different heights. Cut these at varying levels, but cut back at least 50 percent of the plant. The salvia will reward you by bouncing back quickly with renewed vigor and lots of blossoms.

Almost all of the mints I have in my garden ( 6 in all) have pleasant smelling leaves ( cat mint is a bit musky) and of those 4 have some shade of purple flowers, the other two are white and a pinky purple.

I recommend a good gardening book, they often have pictures to help you identify your plant. The size, shape and colour of the leaves are more often what will be the deciding factor in identification.

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The term yarrow is typically placed on the species Achillea millefolium. The plant has frilly, multi-lobed delicate leaves. They are highly aromatic and have flowers that can be white, yellow, orange, pink or red. Achillea ptarmica is called double yarrow, or sneezewort. The flowers look like clusters of tiny cotton balls, rather that the traditional daisy shape of achillea millefolium.

Tea-trees are melaleucas which are a type of Australian native plant. These can be small shrubs or large trees, not herbs. The type used most often for tea tree oil is Melaleuca alternifolia.

To kill chives, you will have to dig them out of the soil. Be sure that you get the entire bulb or the chives will grow back.

This is the seed stalk and should not be allowed to grow unless you intend to save the seed.

Oregano. Perhaps the easiest. Once a sprig is planted you should have a border of some type to help stop it from spreading. It does grow like a bush and would need pruning if you like. This fine herb will actually be infestatious if not watched when growing, claiming lawn if nearby. It can be watered, but needs little. Chives, year after year, are another herb which once started thrive very well. This perrenial is a favorite to many Chefs. Chives, as far as I know, come in a few varieties. One of them being a garlic chive. Towards the peak of a season a pod forms to help reseed and form new plants. You will know by the purplish bulb formed on the tops.

The plant itself is a soft grey-green.

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Rosemary is a wonderful plant. It looks great, smells wonderful and has a great number of uses; decorative, culinary, medicinal, aroma-therapeutic, and magical. I'd have to say, unless you are growing one as an ornamental, pruning is less of an need, however every time you cut branches from the plant, for using in any of the afore mentioned reasons it can technically be considered pruning. The plant that grew in my garden in Arizona was five feet high, four feet wide, and two feet deep and I kept it "hedge" shaped by constant pruning... my cooking benefited greatly from the "prunings". For additional info on the Rosemary her check out the web site listed below.

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Garlic will grow the fastest when it is grown in soil. It will grow the slowest if it is grown in sand.

Aphids tend to be attracted to dill. They also attract lacewings and ladybugs. Homemade remedies such as essential oils can be used and sprayed around plants to deter insects.

Myrrh is an evergreen tree that is known for its medicinal value. It can be grown in Australia, Africa, India, and the Middle East.

Its about just under half a pound. 1 Pound is 454g.

Most plants will die if the salinity level is high enough, and pure sea water is too salty for all except those which naturally grow in or at the edge of the sea. Those that originated in a coastal location will be more tolerant than others. In general, herbs with gray foliage tolerate more salt. Basil, parsley and marjorum are more sensitive than dill and coriander. Rosemary and lemongrass are quite salt-tolerant. So, it depends on how salty the water is.

Ashwagandha is an old Indian plant believed to have medicinal values. It is a product processed from Withania sominifera, therefore, adopting the name.

This is a herb often called wormseed, and is used in Mexican cooking and as a medicinal tea.

It depends on the plant and what you want to accomplish with them. "Herbs" can mean little bitty ground-covers like thyme or great big hedge-size plants like lavender and rosemary. Are these herbs hardy in your area? If an herb isn't going to overwinter in your area, there's no real harm in crowding them in a bed to get a fuller look. On the other hand, if you're making a hedge out of plants that are hardy, you'll want to plant them according to the growers recommendation because eventually those plants will get so large that they'll fill in the gaps naturally. Long story short, there's no one answer to this question. For best results, talk to a nursery owner in your area.

That depends on when it starts germinating. After germination it takes less than a week for the plant to rise from the soil. Germinating seeds before planting them is always a good idea.

Bitters, borneol, linalol, camphene, camphor, cineole, pinene, resin, tannins, rosmarinic acid and carnosol.