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Herb Selection
Basils
Genovese (Heirloom) Old Italian variety. Very tender as seedlings. East to damage in transplanting. Prolific if cur for use throughout the warm season. 1/3 gram = 200 seeds Lemon Small plants Leaves have a strong lemon smell and flavor. Trim before flower spikes develop and plants fill out and will produce more leaves throughout the season. 1/3 gram = 200 seeds Sweet green Sweet, fragrant, delicious herb. Large, thick leaves for your culinary imagination. ½ gram = 300 seeds
Chamomile (German) An often-reseeding herb. Popular world wide as a soothing tea. Flowers continuously until summer heat dry them out. Harvest and dry the full open flowers as fast as they come on. Sow on surface. DO NOT COVER! ½ gram = 1,0000 + seeds Cilantro (Coriander) Plant in succession for continued supply of green leaves for Mexican cooking. The seed spike of this three-foot plant is filled with round seeds that are ground for coriander. 4 grams = 250 seeds Dill (Sweet Bouquet) Use this excellent and prolific herb with new potatoes or in traditional pickles. 2 grams = 700 seeds
Pennyroyal Pungent min used in insect repellents and herbal preparations. Should not be taken as tea when pregnant as it can cause miscarriage. Bi-annual. 1/10 gram = hundreds of seeds Parsley (Forest Green) This triple curled heavy leaf large plant is a good commercial choice. Grow a few plants for lots of green nutrition. 1 gram = 200 seeds Savory (Summer) This aromatic culinary herb has been popular in bean dishes in Europe for hundreds of years. Some say it helps minimize gas problems when eating cooked dry beans. Compact plants grow to 1 ft. And are harvested for drying just as they come into bloom. Two cuttings a year are not unusual in our area. ½ gram = 120 seeds
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