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Books > Health, Home & Family > Gardening > Gardening: plants > Herbs
Includes: *herb garden design and basic planting info *detailed
sectin on what to do with the herbs, including storing *basic
recipes *recommended species, cultivars and varieties that grow
best in your region *full color primary and garden phontos
throughout *herb plant selection *covers MN/WI/IL/IN/MI/OH
The founder of the Rosemary House, a Pennsylvania herb and spice
shop, provides readers will all the necessary information for
transforming an herb hobby into a successful herb business, and
shares her secrets for developing and designing herbal products and
packaging them effectively. Illustrations; resource list.
Home Harvest: Your Pocket Guide to Kitchen Gardening is a
practical, fun and easy-to-read deck of cards that will help you
plant and grow your own kitchen garden. Growing vegetables sounds
like a daunting task if you've never done it before, but it's
actually very simple. Including gardening 101 tips plus
instructions for growing vegetables, herbs and flowers, Home
Harvest breaks down the basics of growing your own food. The deck
is divided into four sections: Gardening 101, Veggies, Herbs and
Flowers. The gardening 101 cards help you start your garden from
scratch, offer advice on keeping it healthy and abundant, and
introduce you to the common garden enemies with tips on managing
them. You will also learn how to entice all the friendly critters
needed for a healthy ecosystem. Each veggie, herb and flower card
has growing and planting information, plus handy cooking tips and
fun facts. In Home Harvest the farmers behind Kinsfolk Farm guide
you through the process of planting, growing and eating veggies
from your very own patch of soil - as simple as that! The card
format is perfect for gardening because you can take one card out
to the garden at a time instead of lugging a book around. Each card
is beautifully illustrated by the phenomenal Edith Rewa, making
this a stunning gift for every gardener in your life.
Imagine a garden that is as beautiful as it is productive, that
gives you fresh, wholesome, chemical-free food with flavours that
go way beyond anything the shops can offer. In Eat What You Grow,
Alys shows you how to create a rich, biodiverse garden that feeds
not only you, but supports a wide range of pollinators, bees and
butterflies, as well as other wildlife. From perennial vegetables
that come back year after year, to easy-to-grow delights, she has
selected plants that hold their own in both the garden and on the
plate. And tells you how to raise these plants, guiding you through
the process of feeding your soil, saving seed and taking cuttings
to increase your supplies. She also teaches you simple and
effective design tools that will ensure your garden looks striking
and wild, brings joy to your world and feeds you day after day.
"Lasagna Gardening With Herbs"
Lasagna gardening is sweeping the nation, as more and more
gardeners discover this simple, sensible method of creating healthy
soil for easy-care gardens. Pat Lanza's organic, commonsense
approach takes the backbreaking labor out of preparing and planting
an aromatic, delicious, and low-maintenance herb garden. Discover
Pat's homegrown methods for using more than 50 favorite herbs in
recipes, making herbal wreaths and delicious herbal teas, and
growing and using edible flowers.
"From the first paragraph of "Lasagna Gardening with Herbs" to the
last, I felt as though I had finally found my soil sister. Pat
Lanza writes and gardens with knowledge, passion, and a pioneer
spirit. Her easy-to-implement tips, combined with her encyclopedic
wisdom about plants and soil, make her book indispensable to both
beginning and advanced gardeners."--Sharon Lovejoy, contributing
editor of "Country Living Gardener," a "New York Times" syndicated
contributor, and author of numerous books, including "Trowel &
Error"
"If Pat Lanza sometimes has dirty fingernails, it's because she's a
writer with the hands-on, dig-in-the-dirt passion of a gardener.
When she writes about gardening methods, you know she's tried them.
And with her discovery of lasagna gardening, she's managed to make
it easier for all of us."--Walter Chandoha, animal and garden
photographer and author and illustrator of more than 25 books,
including "The Literary Gardener"
"Pat Lanza is the only one I know who turns the world upside down
when she gardens. She starts with the basics-- dirt first! Her
philosophy is that if you do it right from the garden up and make
it fun and easy, the garden willdo the rest."--Jim Long, columnist
for" The Herb Companion" and" The Herb Quarterly" magazines and
author of books on herbs and history
"Pat Lanza is a true renaissance woman, always inventing new ways
to tackle old tasks. One day she decided to try her lasagna method
of soil improvement with herbs. Did it work? Of course! Her small
garden produced prodigious harvests of delicious aromatic herbs!
"Carpe diem"!"--Jim W. Wilson, horticulturist and author of
numerous books, including "Jim Wilson's Container Gardening"
"About the Author"
Patricia Lanza is a lifelong gardener, a popular speaker, and the
proprietor of the Potager, a garden gift shop and cafe in
Wurtsboro, New York. Her first book about her time-saving garden
methods," Lasagna Gardening," won the prestigious Quill and Trowel
Award from the Garden Writers Association of America.
Voted one of the Top 10 books in 2000 by the Vermont Book
Publishers Association.
A collective endeavor by United Plant Savers, featuring America's
most respected and well-known herbalists.
Contributors include Don Babineau, Tim Blakley, Mark Blumenthal,
Jane Bothwell, Stephen Harrod Buhner, David Bunting, Richo Cech,
Tane Datta, Shatoiya and Rick de la Tour, Ryan Drum, Doug Elliott,
Steven Foster, Cascade Anderson Geller, Kate Gilday, Rosemary
Gladstar, James Green, Pamela Hirsch, Christopher Hobbs, Sara Katz,
Kathi Keville, Robyn Klein, Richard Liebmann, Brigitte Mars, Pam
Montgomery, Nancy and Michael Phillips, Janice J. Schofield, Joanne
Marie Snow, Deb Soule, Paul Strauss, Gregory L. Tilford, Krista
Thie, Susun S. Weed, David Winston, Martin Wall, Matthew Wood.
While the renaissance in the U.S. botanical market is positive in
many respects, medicinal plant populations are suffering from loss
of habitat and overharvesting, and many bestselling herbs are now
at risk including echinacea, American ginseng, goldenseal, Hawaiian
wild kava, and wild yam. The authors share their extensive
experience with using and growing thirty-three of these popular
herbs and include suggestions for creating your own private herbal
sanctuary--whether a city balcony, suburban backyard, or rural
retreat. Full-color photographs will inspire experienced and novice
herb users alike to protect and cultivate these remarkable healing
plants. Readers will also find out how to use herbal analogues for
at-risk plants--other medicinal herbs that provide the same
benefits and exist in plentiful amounts--and learn ways to make
their herbal purchases a vote for sustainability. "Planting the
Future" shows us how we can participate in the land stewardship,
habitat protection, and eco-friendly consumption that will ensure
an abundant, renewable supply of medicinal plants for future
generations.
All author royalties will be used for replanting native medicinal
herbs on a 370-acre botanical sanctuary in Ohio.
*** 'Bellamy makes gardening seem simple, expressive and joyful.
Anyone can do it.' - Evening Standard 'Offers a fresh take on
gardening in small spaces.' - Countryside Grow 5 reveals a
brilliantly simple, fast way to make a beautiful garden, whether
you have a small plot or a handful of pots. With 52 planting
'recipes' using a palette of just five plants, you can create: - a
low-carbon flower garden for a changing climate - a micro-meadow in
a city space - an urban garden inspired by an ancient woodland -
high notes of colour in a tiny courtyard - a stylized slice of
nature in a pot This practical and inspirational book by
award-winning garden expert Lucy Bellamy and photographer Jason
Ingram includes more than 100 of the newest and best plants and how
to use them through the seasons.
"Marijuana Botany "presents the scientific knowledge and
propagation techniques used to preserve and multiply vanishing
Cannabis strains. Also included is information concerning Cannabis
genetics and breeding used to begin plant improvement programs. The
book presents scientific and horticultural principles, along with
their practical applications, necessary for the breeding and
propagation of Cannabis and in particular, marijuana. It will
appeal not only to the professional researcher, but to the
marijuana enthusiast or anyone with an eye to the future of
Cannabis products.
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