10 Essential Herbs to Grow

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

Uses: The leaves have warm, spicy flavor. Use sparingly in soups, sauces, salads, omelets and with meat, poultry and fish. Also a basis for pesto.
Planting: Sow seeds near sunny window or in greenhouse in early spring. Transplant to garden in early summer. Or sow seeds directly into the garden in late spring.

Try: French Vegetable Soup with Basil Pistou 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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