Thursday, September 19, 2013

Growing Herbs At Home

 


Herbs can be describe as any plants that can be used for flavoring, food, medicine, or perfume. In culinary use, herbs are the green leafy parts of the plant that are either fresh or dried, while the spices are the product from other parts of the plant like roots, fruits, seeds, berries, and bark. Herb is also used as an abbreviation of the word "herbaceous plant" that is rarely found in British English. Since herbs have many uses, culinary herbs and medicinal herbs differ in many ways. In medicinal or spiritual use of the herb, any parts of the plants are considered herbs including the leaves, roots, flowers, seeds, resins, root bark, inner bark, berries and sometimes the pericarp or other portions of the plants that can be converted into a medicine for those who are sick or have some illness.


Growing your own herbs at home is great advantage because, first of all you could save up money since don't have to buy them from the market every time you will use them. Second is you could save time and effort for skipping the herbs on your list when doing your weekly groceries. Lastly, is the fact that you will enjoy planting these in herbs in your garden or you could also mix herbs in festive holiday container to be displayed on your kitchen, so that it will be easier for you to use it when it is listed as part of the ingredients in your cooking recipe. Culinary herbs are distinguished from vegetables, just like in spices, herbs are generally used in small portion and provides flavor rather than substance to food. 


You could grow herbs that you normally use in food recipe, like for example, rosemary, thyme and sage are all perennial plants, so it's okay for them to grow on the same pot or container. Perennial simply means that they are plants that can live for more than two years. Some plants or herbs have good effects on our body because they contain phytochemicals which may have the potential to affect diseases such as cancer, stroke, or metabolic syndrome. But also remember that some herbs can be toxic for the body if consumed in large quantities all at the same time.

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