Herbs: A Broad Definition While most people think of the herb as an aromatic plant used for seasoning in cooking, for its medicinal properties, or in perfumes, herbs actually include any seed-producing flowering plant that does not produce woody stems and that forms new stems and leaves each season. For our purposes, garden vegetables have full and equal rights in the Kingdom of Herbs. As do any gardeners actually named Herb.

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