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Herb Gardening
The planting, growing, propagating, maintenance, harvesting, and uses of various herbs, for culinary, medicinal, decorative, and magical purposes.
628 Questions
What fertilizers help plants grow faster?
The H-E-B brand
AnswerI am doing this for my science project and i think that fertilizers that have more acid will work better.Try using Miracle Grow Fertilezer, or Miracle Grow Plant food.
Also, if it is an inside plant, get some lettuce. Tear into small pieces and put on top of the dirt, under the leaves. Then put the plant back where it was After 3 or 4 days, watch it take off.
How long does it take for seeds to sprout?
Different types of seeds take different lengths of time to sprout. Some sprout quickly, like in a couple of days, and others can take a month or longer.
This is a quick and easy technique that I learnt from last year, it should take you at least 10-15 minutes to set up.
This technique includes:
Paper Towels
Container
Water bottle spray
Seeds
Step 1- Find some containers ( with lids if possible)
Step 2- grab one piece of paper towel and fold it so that it fits in your container.
Step 3- Once you have fitted the paper towel in the container spray water 5 times.
Step 4- Get another piece of paper towel and tear it in as many pieces and sizes as you want, and place it randomly anywhere in the container wit your previous step.
Step 5- Spray it 2 times
Step 6- Place your seeds on top of the paper towels
Step 7- Spray 1 last time., and your done!
( place it under sunlight)
Caring:
Spray your seeds 5 times TWICE a day, and until u find roots growin
g within your seedlings its time to transplant them in a pot!
Ants can't stand mint. It's a great natural repellent. Mint also grows very fast, like a weed would, so you only have to plant it in a small space and it will soon take up a much greater space.
What are the uses of weedicides?
Weedicides are commonly called herbicides. They are chemicals that control weeds to enter the field and compete with the crops and hence cause a direct effect on the crop. Some common herbicides are Metachlor, Nitofen, Round-up and 2,4-D.
What does rosemary smell like?
it has a sort of a rich tangy smell ... infact there's not much you can say about a smell! my advice is to go down to a garden center or a place like that and ask if they have any rosemary!
apologise if this information was of no use to you whatsoever....
What is the difference between annual herbs and perennial herbs?
Annual herbs require to be sown every year as they grow and die in one year. Perrennial herbs sprout evry year from a permenant base.
You grow it from seed, Catnip is a kind of herb, grow it in a pot or in the garden, cats love it, it's acts like a mild drug and gives them a 'high'. If they find it growing in your garden they will roll around and play in it, or you can cut it like any herb and dry it, then stuff soft toys with it for your cat to play with.
you dont make it dumbo, you grow it
What are the substances that found in the eggshells?
stick them in vinegar or a solution of hydrochloric acid
You can wash and trim the outer leaves. Remove core and shred. Steam blanch for 2 mintues. Dry at 100 degrees (F) for 18 hours or until crisp. To rehydrate, soak in cold water with a little lemon juice for 30 minutes and drain. You can add dried cabbage directly to soups or stews without rehydrating. Note: Red cabbage loses some of its color when rehydrated.
Cabbages can be stored throughout the winter months given the right conditions.
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.
