Growing Guides

Parsley (Petroselinum crispum) is a kitchen essential that earns its space, even if it makes you wait at the start. This flat-leaf Italian variety has a clean, peppery flavor and a heavy yield, and once it settles in it gives...

Basil is the plant that makes a summer herb garden smell like summer, and growing it from seed is one of the easiest wins for a new gardener. This warm-season annual (Ocimum basilicum) germinates in days, wants full sun and...

Summer savory (Satureja hortensis) is a fast, fuss-free annual herb with a warm, peppery flavor, and it goes from seed to harvest in about two months. Gardeners have leaned on it as the bean herb for generations, since it partners...

Arugula (Eruca sativa), also called rocket or roquette, is one of the fastest crops you can grow. Sow it straight into the soil, start cutting peppery, nutty leaves in about three weeks, and harvest the same bed again and again....