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Summer has come to the middle, it’s time to harvest the herbs that grow in our gardens. And if you haven’t grown up yet, perhaps, having got acquainted with them better, you will take them a place in your beds. After all, most spicy-flavoring and spicy-aromatic plants are used not […]
Petroselinum crispum This culture in the performance and specific recommendations, probably does not need — there is hardly a garden, where in the garden would not grow parsley. For medicinal and cosmetic purposes, the herb, roots and seeds of the plant are used, which have anti-inflammatory, antispasmodic, analgesic, carminative, diuretic, […]
It is a small perennial plant known, probably, everyone, who creates his own ornamental garden. I am no exception. Thyme for many centuries exist beside man. Since ancient times it has been used as an incense for ritual ceremonies and embalming. Greek oracles believed that the aroma of thyme helps […]
Thyme is power! At least, so believed the ancient Greeks, who gave the plant a name. “Thyme” means “power.” But not only – also “spirit”. Because the Greek “incense” is also thyme. It was also called the “herb of good”, its decoctions in goat’s milk was used as a remedy […]
First of all, let’s remember what a curb is? This is a narrow (10-35 cm or more) band of plants of the same species. The purpose of the curb, first of all, decorative-edging lawn, flower garden, beds, paths. For a denser frame often create a border of two strips of […]
Someone who likes dill in the salad, some like the soup with dill (but need to sprinkle in a plate), additional a hundred cans of pickled cucumbers. But… do not be a dill, does not grow – do not have troubles. Vacationers hardly believe his main crop on his land. […]
Coriander is a very ancient spicy plant, mentioned in the Bible, the Egyptian papyrus of Ebers, dated 5000 years ago. Coriandrum sativum is an annual herb with erect, branched stems 40-150 cm (1.3-4.9 feet) tall. The lower leaves are petiolate, pinnately dissected, with rounded, incised-toothed lobes, the upper sessile or […]
Lettuce is one of the most decorative plants that can decorate the garden from spring to autumn. Many varieties allow you to create dense decorative vegetable groups of mixborders, high beds, on lawns, bordering raised beds with curly, shaggy, flat and lacy leaves of a wide variety of shades. After […]
One day during a hike friends gave me a very good meatballs with spinach and a delicious vegetable pie. After that, I realized what I was missing in life — spinach. Spinacia oleracea It is an annual (mainly dioecious) plant up to 30 cm high (together with a peduncle). Cold-resistant, […]
Fennel has long been known to the peoples of the Mediterranean. In ancient Greece, it was believed that it was connected with the element of Fire; the Greeks believed that a person receives knowledge from the gods in the form of coal on a fennel stalk. The ancient Romans were […]