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There are many ways to grow and use herbs in your garden. There are hundred of herbs and uses that you can find and use for everyday cooking. The key is growing the herbs in the right environment. Providing the right nutrients in the soil is also a very important thing, and this I learned from experience.  So many plants that I grew would shortly die on me and I could never figure out why.  The secret I found out was that the plants would absorb the nutrients from the soil very quickly and soon after would die.  So here are a few secrets I learned:  When you first put the seed into the soil to grow, don’t just water it like most people do, pour in a little bit of Apple Cider.  Not Apple juice, but Apple Cider.  This will give the plant lots of the nutrients it needs to make a really healthy start and a very large plant will grow from this!  I remember when I used this technique for the first time, I had such a healthy, large plant of geraniums, I had to keep cutting the plant back because it got too tall for our house!

The second technique for getting great nutrients into the soil is using ash.  Do you remember how, when a forest burns down the plants that grow in the next generation are stronger than the last?  This is because the ash from the burnt plants provides nutrients for the next generation.  Now, I am not saying to burn down something to provide a little food for your plants, but many people use incenses for example, and can use the ashes from this to provide the plants with to make them grow.  Or, people burn wood in their fireplaces, and the ashes from this can be used as well.