Creative Ways to Use The Herbs Grown in Your Garden

Creative Ways to Use Garden Herbs

The most common motivation for growing harvesting herbs is to enhance dishes. However, there’s a plethora of alternative uses for your herbal bounty.
Herbs in dinner dishes are always welcome. But how about trying them in desserts? Fruit salad, sorbet, yogurt, cakes, and cookies, for example, will take on new life when lavender, basil, scented geranium, roses, and other edible flowers are included.

• Herb-infused oils and vinegars make beautiful gifts.
• Herbal butters
• Herbal salts
• Herbal sugars
• Add them to jellies and syrups.
• Put collected seeds such as lavender into a small, decorative envelope to hand out as wedding or party favors.
• Fill a miniature manila envelope with seeds and glue it to the inside of a card for a special gardener.
• Make lavender pillows for relaxation and scenting closets and drawers.
• Create lavender wands to tuck into dresser drawers.
• Some herbs make great dietary supplements for pets and livestock (be sure to research specifics first).
• Herbs are excellent to add to nest boxes in your chicken coop.
• Pop herbs such as lavender, rosemary, sage, scented geranium, chive, and dill flowers into your flower arrangements.
• Use herbs in homemade soap recipes.
• Use them in homemade sugar scrubs and bath salts.
• Herbs such as rosemary, chamomile, and sage are perfect for making herbal hair rinses that produce natural shine.
• Make small muslin bags filled with lavender to toss into the dryer.
• Make an herbal wreath for your entryway for a fresh, summery scent.

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