Monday, July 9, 2012

Flower And Herb Gardens


We are a flower shop in Thailand and pride ourselves on not only offering a high quality flower delivery service but also on the fact that we grow many of our own flowers. We have a small farm of one rai (about 1/4 of an acre) and grow our own tulips, gerbera, roses and a few lilies. We share our expertise on flower growing in the form of these articles.
Among the many rewards of growing your own herbs is that often you can use them to bring out the flavor of food dishes. You can certainly use a small portion of your garden, or even planting pots, to raise enough herbs to satisfy all your needs – and your neighbourhood garden center or nursery will stock just about everything that’s needed for starting out. Let us take a look at more closely the range of uses and the benefits of growing your own herbs.

Almost certainly the most well-known use of herbs is in cooking, chiefly to add flavor but sometimes also color. There isn’t really a recipe, including salads and soups, that they cannot be added to. Meat recipes usually require the addition of herbs to bring out the flavor and what better than using herbs straight from the garden. Some sort of experimentation is often great fun and leads to tasty variations of your everyday meals.
One more ages-old selling point of herbs is their healing ability, which has been used successfully with many ill-health conditions. You will uncover a wide range of remedies based around herbs if you conduct some research. A lot of these herbs are put to use either fresh or dried and can be taken internally, such as in drinking teas or tinctures or used externally by being put in to poultices and creams that can be applied to affected areas. Any upset stomach is usually remedied with peppermint tea, whereas camomile is well known as the perfect bedtime relaxant and for soothing irritable skin conditions.

As soon as your herbs have evolved to maturity you can continue to reap benefits by cutting or picking and drying them. Dehydrated herbs can once more be used in teas and added to cooking for additional flavor. One more use for dried herbs is just as a decoration and for making potpourri. Dried herbs release a aroma that’s very pleasing to the senses. Take a bunch of dried lavender, resplendent with smooth grey-green stalks and purple blooms, tie it with twine and suspend it from the ceiling or a crossbeam to give your kitchen a rustic atmosphere.

It is not important if you end up with a small garden, herbs are very easily grown at home even with limited space. The way mint flourishes in pots demonstrates that pots are very good for growing herbs in. Offer half a possibility and it will quickly cover other plants with its energetic growth. If perhaps grown within a pot, however, this tendency is well controlled. Needless to say, herbs, like various other plants grown in containers, do require frequent watering.

Another benefit of growing herbs at home is usually that it offers an affordable and handy opportunity to expose children to gardening. This kind of participation can be extended to cooking, by allowing them to add the herbs they have grown and witness the change in the flavor and aroma of a dish. For an introduction, enable your children to sow some cress seeds in a pot on a windowsill – observing the growth process will fascinate them. Apart from the easiness with which it grows, cress also has the fun and tasty benefit that it can be cut and added to their food.

Growing your own herbs is going to reward you in several ways so don’t delay getting 
started.

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