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Kitchen Herbs for Food & First Aid Year-round, a culinary and medicinal garden can be as close as your windowsill—the perfect light-filled ledge to put fragrance, flavours, and first aid at your fingertips. Try your green thumb with these easy-to-grow favourites.
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Don’t forget to use the flowers of herbs—like bright pink chive blossoms—for a splash of colour in your raw salads.
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Popular basil is packed with beneficial antibacterial, antiinflammatory, and antimicrobial herb properties, antioxidants, and vitamins. Whether green, purple, smallor large-leaved, Italian or Thai, plant basil in regularly fed, well-drained soil in a sunny window. Keep it moist and snip just above a leaf node to encourage branching.
CHAMOMILE A physic gardens staple, chamomile is known for its soothing, anti-inflammatory properties—for skin issues, upset stomachs, to aid sleep, and ease menstrual pain. Dry the leaves to make a delicious tea or to splash on your face for a soothing toner. Grow Roman chamomile in sandy soil, in a southfacing window, and water once a week.
