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Backyard Herb Gardening

How To Grow Herbs From Your Backyard and Use It For Everyday Life

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Herbs are extremely versatile. Cook delicious meals, sides and desserts with them. Help cure simple illnesses or prevent serious problems until you can get professional help. Clean and freshen your home and the things in your home with them. Protect other plants growing in your yard or in the house with herbs. Use herbs in facials, body cleansers and other cosmetic applications. Finally, use herbs to scent the house and bring about a sense of well-being.

Having an herb garden in your backyard is probably one of the most valuable things you can do. Most herbs grow in containers, so if you only have a deck or balcony, you can still reap some of the benefits of growing herbs.

Growing herbs to use in your home isnt anything new. It is a proven fact that herbs were used during prehistoric times. Wall paintings depicting herbs on the Lascaux Cave in France carbon dates back to 1300 to 2500 BC. Herbs were held in high esteem in ancient Rome and Greece where leaders were crowned with wreaths of dill and bay laurel. The father of medicine, Greek physician Hippocrates, used 400 different herbs for medicinal uses in the fifth century BC and herbal use goes on from the Middle Ages to Ayurvedic practices of India and Chinese medicine to modern times.

The people of the Middle Ages started to design herb gardens with aesthetics and usefulness in mind. Some herb gardens were informal with a profusion of leaves and blooms while others were stringently manicured and completely symmetrical. Examples of these gardens are the cottage herb garden where plants grow wherever there is space for them and the elaborate knot garden built in geometric shapes.

The garden of a doctor back then may have been walled with two rows of rectangular raised beds and one whole area might be devoted to just one type of herb. Many monasteries built herb gardens for healing purposes and the townsfolk would come to the monks to be healed.

During the Renaissance Era, gardeners sought to make the garden pretty and a place in which to relax and enjoy life. The Victorian Era brought a new interest in old plants and herbs. Victorians scattered herbs about the flower beds and the 20th and 21st centuries brought about a resurgence of growing and using herbs as the natural thing to do.

Wars have been waged on the trade of herbs and spices. Herbs make food taste better or, at least, more interesting. This fact made herbs a sought-after commodity. Romans traveled to India to sample exotic herbal blends and trade routes were set throughout the world just to transport herbs and spices. Christopher Columbus didnt set out from Spain to bump into America. He set sail to find a faster trade route for the trade of many things including herbs and spices.

There are many culinary herbs from which to choose from mild flavors to those that will knock your socks off. Most of them are very easy to grow, harvest and store.

Treat a bee sting with a basil leaf or a minor would with an infusion of thyme. Herbs do have healing properties and can be antibiotic, antiseptic, an astringent, antiviral and more. It probably isnt a good idea to completely depend on herbal remedies for any one medical problem, but there is no harm in treating simple problems. Use catnip to calm the body and mind and allow restful sleep; that is fine. But, a diabetic should never look to an herbal remedy alone to treat their disease.

Many herbs have disinfectant properties and infusions are suitable to clean countertops, sinks, toilet bowls, floors, walls and more. Some herbs even banish mold and mildew from shower stalls and moist basement areas.

Did you know that planting basil near tomatoes and peppers enhances the flavor of all three? It also keeps away harmful insects. Tying a leaf from a chive plant to a rose bush growing nearby will get rid of little pesky aphids. Many herbs attract beneficial insects to the garden that pollinate other flowers. They deter different pests from invading too. An infusion of a few herbs sprayed on plants in the garden will keep deer and rabbits away and just need to be washed off to use the herb otherwise.