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Elodie’s basil pesto
Three basil plants needed trimming to keep them bushy. Here is the recipe and some pictures for making basil pesto. Elodie’s Basil Pesto About 6-8 cups packed of fresh, clean basil good quality olive...
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Growing Borage
I wanted to try Borage and couldn’t find it in starters in the nurseries around town. Perhaps one of you did? So I grew it from seed this year and read that it is a good companion plant Strawberries do...
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Speaking of Herbs..THE SPICE LADY
I love cooking with different herbs. That’s why I grow some of my own. They add flavor in foods. Imagine how boring food would taste without herbs and spices much less salt and pepper! I just got done...
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Herb garden
I use to have a great herb garden but then built the studio here at the house on top of where it was located and had to tear it out. What a mistake. I thought it would be easy to recreate that herb...
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Is it a weed? White Horehound
There is a plant that grows everywhere around here and I’ve always wondered what it was. Grows like a weed so to speak. I knew it was in the mint family as the stems were square but was definitely not...
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Homemade Fresh Pesto
Pesto is a such an easy thing to make and is so delicious that I don’t know why more people don’t make it. This summer I made fresh pesto with my mini food processor which I then froze for later use. I...
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Herbs De Provence
I love my herb garden even though it is sleeping now covered under a blanket of straw. This past season, I had to start over because many of the herbs died from that bitter cold winter we had last...
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The beginning of Pharmacies-medicinal plants
This past fall I took a trip to New Orleans and while there took a tour of the New Orleans Pharmacy Museum where a pharmacist, Louis J. Dufilho, Jr. was the first to pass the national licensing...
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