Planting Fresh Herbs for Your Cooking & Bath Rituals
Planting Fresh Herbs for Your Cooking & Bath Rituals
Fresh Herbs are beautiful and smell fragrant. I love touching rosemary or fresh mint and having the sent on my hands. This is an easy way to add beauty and fresh energy to your home and cooking.
Each plant has its own energy and healing properties. For example, thyme, is a strong anti-fungal, mood booster, used for mental clarity, and purification.
Ideas for using fresh herbs: Add them to your cooking, to flavor water, teas, you can burn dried herbs like thyme (ancient Greeks used as incense), and add them into a soothing and fragrant bath wrapped in cheesecloth.
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xo Chef Carla
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Planting Kitchen Herbs Tips:
Steps to pot kitchen herbs easier ones to take care of are thyme, rosemary, and marjoram. If you are in a warm place or it’s summer basil and mint are great!
• Get a pot with fresh soil. Dig a hole big enough for the plant to fit (I used a spoon to plant this thyme plant in the picture). And cover with dirt on all sides.
• Water the plant. I like to soak it the first time with dry soil.
• Keep an eye on when it needs watered. I typically water plants like thyme or rosemary once a week. Mint or basil will need more, you will see the leaves droop when it needs water.
• NOTE: Too much water can lead to pests like fruit flies.
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