Sunday, December 20, 2009

A Home Herb Garden For Cooking and Medicine

Once you set up your herb garden at home, if you're in your garden or in pots, you should understand what to do with your herbs. By using herbs in the garden is great fun and here we focus on two basic forms: food and medicine. Some plants that are primarily used in the kitchen can also have healthy side effects, while, unlike some plants that were thought only home remedies can taste great.The first step in using herbs from your home is a herb garden know the best way to eliminate the plants that need the whole plant. Many herbs, including common varieties, such as basil and dill only made edible leaves or buds. Therefore, only a little out of the number of sheets is required with your fingers or if you prefer to use a pair of scissors - as not to crush the remaining part of the plant. Other house plants, garden herbs such as horseradish, ginger and turmeric has edible roots, digging and cleaning is necessary, then slice or grilled them.Most Sometimes we think that the use of plants in our kitchen garden on many levels because it adds flavor to dishes and is able to reduce the amount of salt, because herbs to make food tastier and gives a delicious flavor. Sage is a favorite of every garden of herbs and massage is ideal for red meats like beef stew and lamb, and oregano are the main ingredient of Italian cuisine, giving slightly spicy and aromatic taste.Herbs were used in all ages for its medicinal properties, but with the dawn of modern medicine, medicinal herbs have had a back seat to conventional medicine, although still a great opportunity to maintain their health. Many herbs in the house, herb garden can be produced in boiling water to make tea relaxed and healthy, the two most popular are mint and chamomile. While chamomile is ideal for the filtration of the night, like a relaxing, the mind is more difficult and is an excellent herbal tea in the garden morning.The the house can be a wonderful source of medicinal herbs: herb St. John is known for helping ease the tension, both physical and mental, while the absence has long been known that many digestive aid. Ford has been used mainly for its indigo dye in the west, but has long been known that the Chinese doctors as an anti-inflammatory, anti-viral treatment and antibacterial properties and is said to be taken by mouth can help prevent influenza. I grow several plants of anise in my herb garden at home and I like drinking tea from seeds aromatic. Anise syrup is well known to relieve coughs.In addition to the common kitchen and medicinal uses, some plants can also protect your home and garden of his house pests. Dill is known for keeping eggs on the cabbage white butterfly, fennel, although it is a major impediment to the fleas and so it is best grown outside of the kennel. Bay leaves keep weevils away, just put one or two leaves in the container of rice or spread some sheets on the shelves of the pantry where you store flour.Because grains and herbs are available in a wide range of sizes and textures, which can create visual interest in the home herb garden, while being useful in various ways for cooking, medicine and as a deterrent to pests, so the use of herbs in a garden the house of herbs is a wonderful hobby that also offers practical advantages.

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