Marjoram is a perennial shrub, grown as annual in cool climates. It reaches a height and spread of 30 to 50cm. Origanum species are highly aromatic with pleasant scent. Flowers are pale pink sometimes white. It favors sandy dry soil. Marjoram is native to south-east Europe and Asia Minor.

The herb contains aromatic oil which is highly tonic and of great benefit to man and animals. The plant is used as an aid to digestion. It will sooth sore throats and relieve cough. It is also good for pains and aches. The herb is used both externally and internally. May be used externally in baths, inhalants or poultices where an antiseptic action is required. It makes a good combination with chamomile.

Take internally as a tea. Use a heaped teaspoon of the herb to half a liter of hot water. You can use the herb in cooking or when making bread. Marjoram has wide commercial and domestic use as a flavoring and for scented articles.  The essential oil and herb are used in cosmetics. The essential oil (0, 5%) comprising thymol (to 15%).

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This herbal sauce is served with baked fish and it is also great with stewed beef

You will need:

2tbsp chopped French tarragon

2 large slices white bread

1/2 cup extra virgin olive oil

2 cloves of garlic

2 tbsp red wine vinegar

1 tbsp balsamic vinegar

Salt and fresh ground pepper (white)

Cut the bread with a knife into small thin pieces and pour the olive oil over it. Chop the garlic finely and sprinkle over the bread and leave to marinate for 2 hours covered with plastic wrap at room temperature

Next add the marinate of both red wine vinegar and balsamic, salt and pepper to a food processor. If need to thin the sauce down add fish or meat sauce.

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1 cup roasted, ground Sesame seed

1 dried, ground Celery tops

2 cups dried, ground Parsley

2 teaspoons dried, ground Garlic

2 teaspoons dried, ground Thyme

2 teaspoons dried (seeds), ground Coriander

2 teaspoons dried, ground Marjoram

2 teaspoons ground Paprika

1 teaspoon dried (seed), ground Dill

1 teaspoon, ground sea salt

Mix well the herbs and spices and pass trough a fine sieve. Keep enough to use and place the rest in airtight container and keep in the freezer

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Basil is an annual aromatic herb introduced from the East in the sixteen century as a culinary herb and it is still very popular today. Several types of the herb are in cultivation including, Bush Basil, Sweet Basil, Holy Basil, Creek basil, Lettuce-leaf Basil, Thai Basil, Purple Basil….

Basil is propagated from seeds in spring. It likes a fertile well-drained soil and a warm sunny site, so get such a site in your garden to plant it. Acid soils will need a dressing of lime and a liquid fertilizer given once a month will keep the plants happy. Basil makes a good pot plant in cool climates and an excellent companion plant. It repels fruit fly and aphids from other plants and rubbed onto the skin repels mosquitoes.

Pick leaves throughout the season to use fresh or dry. To improve bushiness and keep leaves coming keep flowering tips pinched out. Dried powdered leaf once taken as snuff. Basil oil is used as a commercial flavoring and in perfumery. Add fresh chopped leaves in salads pasta dishes, meat dishes; particularly compatible with tomatoes. The fresh leaves aid digestion.

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The quadrant garden design is very old, but also very popular way to display herbs. It is a simple square or rectangular space with paths cutting the area into four equal parts. This garden design usually, outline each of the four equal parts with a fence and the perimeter boarders inside each fence is planted with perennial herbs such as lavender, chives, mints, lemon balm or thyme.

The inner squares are used to grow annual herbs such as parsley, basil, chervil or chamomile. These can be rotated with deferent herb beds each year.

Very small spaces can be effectively planted using a guardant plan. The design was very popular with Colonial gardens.
A quadrant garden can be rather plain in design. However, it can be decorated, by using color paving for the paths and by placing an ornament such as a Sun Clock in the center of the garden, and transform it into a head turning herb garden.

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