Lets talk Herbs:
What is going on in your garden?
trying anything new?
favorite uses for the old?
Tips to share ?

So far the only herb I have growing is a pot of Pineapple Sage.
I brought it in as it is not reliably hardy.
Seeds I will do are Lemon Balm.
Orange Balm
Borage both blue and the shorter white one.
Fenugreek
Salad Burnet
Might do a plug order to Richters Herbs for French Tarragon.
Peppermint seeds I will do in pots and place them to deter the voles.
Pineapple mint, Mojito mint and Margarita mint as plugs.
Just my plan so far.

I too brought a pineapple inside for the winter , a pineapple mint , It was just so pretty and does not come back for me here .

..so may I ask what do you do with fenugreek? I have to admit it is one herb I have never grown.

I have not done anything so far with it.
It is supposed to give a maple syrup flavouring to foods or teas.

sounds interesting , may have to try some

Fenugreek comes in a blue flower and a white flower variety.
Flowers are small.

Hi. I watched a video this morning on someone making rosemary tincture using ACV instead of alcohol. Helps with memory cognitive support (which I need), antibacterial, anti-inflammatory, antiviral and a host of other things. I am thinking I am going to make that. My rosemary died this winter so I need to replace it. I still have the dead one and was wondering if using the dried leaves on the plant still will work for a tincture? thoughts?

I would say it is ''possible'' to use dried but there would be more infusion with fresh.
Our local international market carries fresh(organic) rosemary
If purchasing I would make sure it is organic .

...If you are a tea drinker you can use the dead dried in tea
A bit of an unusual tea flavor takes a getting use to.

... you can also make a strong infusion for a lovely after-shampoo rinse for brownish hair. Actually covers some grey. But does stain fiberglass tubs.

Is this experience speaking

Absolutely! I went through a stage using rosemary on my hair and it made it really shiny and soft, plus covered grey, only temporarily.

Over the years I've made many herbal body products, mostly because it's fun and avoids all the nasty ingredients found in expensive commercial products. I'm not very serious about it; just lots of experimenting.

I'll just cook with it and maybe make a small tincture to get me by until I can replace mine but I won't use it on my hair if it turns it brown! I'm all natural silver and spent a couple of years growing out all the brown color I used to dye it with. Never going back to that again! LOL
I've had this rosemary for maybe 3 years in a pot so I can bring it in during the winter but this summer we had massive wind storm one day and blew the thing over and it just never recovered. So sad.

Definitely not for use on silver hair! I was salt and pepper at the time... the grey coverage was a surprise, not the goal.

I don't know how different your climate is from mine, but you might do better to plant your next rosemary in the ground, perhaps in a protected spot. Potted plants are more susceptible to freezing than inground. My Arps not only withstand winter freezes, they bloom this time of year. I just went out to pick some for tea per Cinda's suggestion; can't recall trying it.

Just now

I'm in NW Oklahoma semi arid climate and just got moved to a zone 7a from 6b. Not quite sure if I trust that. Maybe what you are growing would live outside here! That would be awesome. I want to make an herb spiral this summer and rosemary would fit right in there. I'll look into the arp! Yours is beautiful!

@gardengus I'm going to try that tea... sounds interesting and that may help me with a lot of my ailments. Thanks for the idea!

HI everyone.
I am going to try growin g Stevia for the first time and may need some tips on growing and harvesting it.
Also trying Hibiscus Roselle for the first time.
Most of my herbs have made it through the winter so far but we may get another snow storm before the month is over.
Still trying to decide what else i want to grow. I need to replace some herbs that didn't like where they were planted or my husband thought they were weeds and whacked them down.
I am ready for spring so i can get in the garden.

@Mindy03
I grew stevia three years ago. I plucked it in a whisky barrel planter with some other stuff. I grew great and would have done better in the ground. It grew quite large and I gave it nothing special. Just watered it. Easy to grow. I harvested some of it but never used it because it gave me a massive headache and made my heart race after tasting it once.
Maybe sometime else has better info for you. This is just my experience with it.

I grew it in the ground several years ago. Like Angela, I didn't give it anything special and it grew fine. It was an impulse plant, but since I use very little sweetener, I never used it culinarily. However, I recently purchased a tiny amount of the powered variety at my local herb store to sweeten a breakfast drink concoction I've started making. I already knew it is 300 times sweeter than sugar. Even using an almost microscopic amount, it's TOO sweet for my taste! I switched to agave syrup.

I have grown stevia for many years.
I do not give it any special attention except to harvest the tips early to have it bush out a bit.
I have not grown it from seed but I'm giving it a try this year . I have read that it is a bit difficult to start from seed , but the seeds were free so worth a try.