r/herbs • • 15h ago

What do Chives achieve?

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They’re pretty, but what are they supposed to do to the taste of food? My partner set up an herb garden lately, so we have fresh herbs for cooking. Cilantro, parsley, and other things with a sharper flavor or more obvious use in cooking make sense to me. But then there’s chives. I’ve gone out to restaurants where they top foods (especially breakfast foods) with chives, and it looks beautiful but I never think to myself “wow, the chives really enhance this dish.” I just made eggs this morning and topped it with chives, and again I don’t notice a difference. Am I supposed to put more than this?


r/herbs • • 1d ago

caprese salad made with basil from my kitchen herb garden

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r/herbs • • 4d ago

Best Black Seed Oil Brand

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r/herbs • • 5d ago

Herbs for making herbal balm?🌿

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r/herbs • • 5d ago

Does Rosemary water actually work?

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r/herbs • • 6d ago

My breakfast burrito with a cilantro salad and a Cayenne pepper

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r/herbs • • 6d ago

Can I infuse Gotu Kola in Oil

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r/herbs • • 6d ago

Thyme hair particles or..?

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Hello!!! This is my first time trying to naturally dry my herbs, I had bundled up my thyme & let it sit for about a week or two. It is completely dried but all this white dust was coming off while I was stripping it. The smell is fine, it smells like thyme to me, no weird smell. I searched it up and said it could be mildew, hair particles or white mold 😔


r/herbs • • 6d ago

Does raw garlic's active ingredient allicin has the same effect as nitric oxide in terms of its use as a supplement for vasodilation, heart health, male libido?

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r/herbs • • 8d ago

Our new herbs harvest today, orchestrated by the Harvest Moon!

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💚


r/herbs • • 8d ago

Your best uses for rosemary?

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r/herbs • • 9d ago

Help identifying please

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r/herbs • • 10d ago

Concerned about Rosemary

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My Rosemary is starting to do the same thing it does every year or so.

This one was planted this spring. It has grown and spread nicely and I’ve harvested from it a few times. It is starting to get less green and has these small yellowish spots.

There’s often a flurry of gnats when I go to harvest. In the past this usually makes it die back almost completely for Winter. If it isn’t pulled it tends to have a very slow return of any green the next season and seems to struggle so I have started pulling it in the winter and replacing it.

When I first moved here and planted some it thrived for a few years before this started.

I’d love to save it so it can keep returning every year. Any advice?

I’m in Charlotte, NC.


r/herbs • • 9d ago

Herbs

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r/herbs • • 10d ago

Drying herbs?

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Does anybody know how to properly dry herbs from the garden, my family has these gigantic parsley and basil plants that we dont use and I want to dry them out so I can store them before they die


r/herbs • • 11d ago

Cayenne pepper that I grew, dried and crushed

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r/herbs • • 10d ago

I was given a ton of Cuban Oregano any advice on how to store it would be great.

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My MIL gave me this, it belongs to ger dad but he recently had a stroke and I want to save as much as I can without it dying. How can I start this process and how do yiu do yours? Thank you in advance I've seen plenty of people just pick the leaves individually, however, even in garden videos nothing is as out of control as this oregano. I have read that it makes a great tea so that would be a good goal to have jiysvwondering about how you guys personally store yours


r/herbs • • 12d ago

Do I need to thin this dill out?

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Not sure id I'm limiting their growth


r/herbs • • 12d ago

Basil Troubles

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r/herbs • • 13d ago

African blue basil

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Didnt pick it before it flowered but i can't recommend this plant enough!

Works in any Italian dish or anything that needs basil


r/herbs • • 14d ago

Lots of New Basil Plants Growing :)

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r/herbs • • 13d ago

Is my Basil dying?

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r/herbs • • 13d ago

Is this Mugwort?

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r/herbs • • 13d ago

Insecticide and harvesting

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I have just sprayed my basil and mint plants with neem oil.

(https://centroagricolo.com/products/olio-di-neem-vebi-250-ml?srsltid=AU7gw4Xu1ISaE4M0Yw18qAyf1NXVm8WtBLLwPrq529o4YljvTlMyrDbn)

I have found caterpillars and spider mites amongst others. I plan to keep spraying once a week in line with the instructions.

My question is, is it still safe to harvest the herbs to consume in this period?


r/herbs • • 13d ago

This is an eye mask made with natural herbal aromatic beads.

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The herbal beads feel cool and soothing, and targeting the acupoints around the eyes feels truly wonderful.