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Set a container of fresh herbs in a sunny window

By Lucia Huntington

 |  Globe Correspondent  

  May 09, 2012

There’s nothing like the flavor that fresh herbs add to dishes. It’s why restaurants such as Rendezvous in Cambridge, 51 Lincoln in Newton, and dbar in Dorchester grow their own on their premises, and why Poor Richard’s Almanack proclaimed “Much Virtue in Herbs, little in Men.” Luckily, if you have a sunny window or spot on a patio, yard, or balcony, they’re also easy to grow yourself in a container.

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