Most used herb?

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  1. PepperDude

    PepperDude In Flower

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    What is your most used herb or herbs? And do you grow your own or buy it fresh or in the little plastic bottle? Now no recipes here but what do you use the herb on?
     
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  3. Droopy

    Droopy Slug Slaughterer Plants Contributor

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    I can't choose. We grow chives, thyme, lemon thyme, Salvia and oregano here, and use them all for cooking.
     
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    Biita Arctic-ally Challenged Forager

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    I can't choose just one either, but i can choose 3, garlic, citron melissa, dill. I grow all my own herbs.
     
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    HEHEHE! Just too make it easier i edited it to read HERBS also. And thanks for the replies.
     



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    Netty Chaotic Gardener Plants Contributor

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    Definitely garlic. I use it on almost everything LOL
     
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    Hmmm.... I think Netty likes garlic?
     
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    dooley Super Garden Turtle

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    Basil, oregano and garlic. In about everything. dooley
     
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    Erm ... now let me think - mint, parsley, corriander, sage, basil, turmeric, fennel, garlic, - and just about everything else too!!! :D All used in cooking.
     
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    I have been growing herbs the last 2 years but really need to learn how to dry and use them in cooking. Don't really have that one special fav yet. I do grow chives, sage, peppermint, oragino, chamomile, parsley, garlic, lavendar.
     
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    I use my sage on pork...I use my basil on tomato sauce and salads...I use my thyme on pork and my clam chowder...
     
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    It's hard to choose a favorite. I use garlic every day. Basil and oregano a lot too. I grow all of my herbs with the exception of garlic. I buy more ginger than I grow, the plants are so pretty I hate to dig them up for their root. I am having a love affair with smoked paprika at the moment...roast chicken with smoked paprika and sea salt is my comfort food...ok, one of my comfort foods.
     
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    Basil basil and more basil. (PS: Basil)

    As stated in a previous message... if I could bottle it... I'd wear it as perfume! [/i]
     
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    For me it would have to be basil hands down. To b honest that is the only one I have had sucess in growing. I have tried thyme, oregano and rosemary and have had no luck. boohoooo.
     
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    I use a little of everything. I have Basil, Thyme, Rosemary, Parsley, Oregano, and Lavender. I use Basil, Thyme and Oregano the most.

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    basil, oregano and garlic just about every day in something. Dill weed is becoming a favorite as i experiment putting it in different salads and seafood recipes
    mary
     

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