Cultivate flavor, health, and goodness from your windowsill to the backyard with Rootsy’s Herb Gardening sanctuary. Whether you’re growing fragrant culinary staples like basil, thyme, and parsley, nurturing healing medicinal herbs, or experimenting with micro-herb and container gardens, our step-by-step guides and resourceful hacks help you grow and use herbs with confidence.
From planning a functional herb garden tailored to your cooking or wellness needs to mastering preservation methods like drying, freezing, tinctures, and syrups, we support your journey toward fresh flavors, homemade remedies, and sustainable living.
The summer heat can be just what our gardens need to grow amazing vegetables and herbs. Or it can completely burn up the garden. Here are some tried and true tips for keeping your vegetable and herb garden healthy and growing through the summer heat. Water Deeply Most vegetable plants need an inch of water …
Increase your herb garden size and harvest by learning how to divide herbs for replanting. This simple process is a great and frugal way to get more herbs either from your own existing plot or from friends and neighbors without having to start seeds or purchase plants. The Best Herbs to Divide Stick with perennial …
Micro herbs add flavor and nutrition to your food and beauty to your home. You can grow micro basil and other herbs such as cress and dill year round when you grow them indoors as micro greens. What Are Micro Herbs? Micro herbs and micro greens are really just seedlings and are harvested well before …
There are many reasons to grow a container herb garden. If you life in a cold climate you can grow herbs inside in a container. If you don’t have much space for gardening, you can grow herbs in containers on the patio or balcony. Even if you have room in your vegetable garden to grow …
The great thing about gardening is that we can grow exactly what we want and need. This is as true for vegetables as it for plants in the medicinal herb garden. Growing our own medicinal herb garden means we can plan and plant the useful herbs needed for the ailments and conditions we encounter most …
An herb garden is a useful thing of beauty around a home. It can add flavor to meals, healing remedies to the medicine cabinet, and provide a home to beneficial insects galore. Plan a most useful herb garden for your home with these guidelines. Planning the Culinary Herb Garden A kitchen herb garden in an …
You’ll be surprised what you can create with just 10 herbs! Seasoning our food with herbs and spices is a matter of personal preference. Fortunately, many of herbs you love can easily be grown and preserved for later. Reduce your grocery budge, improve your cooking, and help save the bees by planting these 10 easy to grow …