10 Essential Herbs to Grow

Plant these popular herbs in your garden and enjoy some fresh-from-the-earth taste at your dinner table.
Chives
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Chives

Uses: Leaves have a mild onion flavor. Chop them and add them to salads, egg and cheese dishes, cream cheese, mashed potatoes, sandwich spreads, and sauces. Use flowers in salads.
Planting: Sow seeds in spring or fall, ½ inch deep in rows 12 inches apart. As soon as the seedlings are established, thin within the rows to 6 inches apart. Or set out nursery grown plants in early spring, 9-12 inches apart.

Try: Roasted Vegetable Wraps With Chive Sauce Recipe
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This may require lengthy collation and ranking: 10 medicinal herbs and their uses.

By Chuks A, on 08/15/2009
I wish this would say something about what climates the different herbs need. I live in Alaska and am not sure what types of herbs I can grow.

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