The UK's leading gardening publisher brings you a horticultural handbook to fulfil your every need and seed! Get your gardening gloves on and join the green-fingered journey to growing herbs successfully at home. A must-have volume for first-time gardeners, Grow Herbs has tonnes of tips and tricks to sow, grow, plant and propagate a diverse range of herbs, from parsley to peppermint, bay leaves to basil, this grower's guide truly has it all! With passion in every page, you can enjoy: -A jargon-free practical guide to harvesting home-grown herbs -Easy to follow step-by-step instructions of fundamental gardening techniques -Exploration of popular herbs as well as lesser-known options A recent study suggests 38% of British adults use their gardens to grow herbs and vegetables. But with the ever-growing pressure of balancing family life with a career, a lot of today's green-fingered gardeners simply lack time for growing herbs. We believe it's time to change that! Whatever your horticultural hopes may be, award-winning author Stephanie Mahon brings you a herb-growing guide that is sure to shape first-time gardeners like never before, full of top tips to help your garden thrive! An ideal gift for first-time gardeners, budding botanists or the green-fingered lover in your life, make sure to get those gardening gloves on, and join the journey today! At DK, we believe in the power of discovery. If you like Grow Herbs, why not try the other titles in our Grow series? Learn how to brighten your garden all year round with Grow Bulbs, enjoy a no-fuss guide to container gardening with Grow Containers or minimise garden waste with Grow Eco-Gardening. Ready, set, let's grow!

This is a guide to planning a kitchen garden and cultivating a wide range of fruits, vegetables and herbs, from sowing and planting through to harvesting and storage. It also describes the different cultivation needs of various crops, including the training and pruning of fruit trees, and routine husbandry, such as weeding, feeding, mulching and the prevention and control of pests and diseases.

A plain-English guide to the world of herb gardening

Starting an herb garden isn't free, but it certainly outweighs the growing costs of buying retail herbs. Plus, adding homegrown ingredients to your meals is a healthy and tasty way to improve upon any dish you whip up at home.

This friendly, hands-on guide is an excellent introduction to the world of herb gardening. It gives you tips and advice to grow a thriving herb garden that will add depth and flavor to home-cooked meals-as well as boost your health.How to choose, plant, and care for herbsCovers ready-made versus homemade soil mixes, starting plants from seeds, and other fundamentalsHow to prevent insects, pests, and diseases from invading your containersOver 30 herb recipes for everyday uses, including rubs, marinades, beauty products, and more

Whether you're interested in getting step-by-step instructions for starting on your first herb garden or already have one and want to learn new tips and techniques, "Herb Gardening For Dummies," 2nd Edition has you covered

"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.

This beginners guide for anyone interested in starting an herb garden explains in simple terms everything you need to know about choosing the site, preparing the soil, choosing the plants, caring for them, dealing with pests and diseases and what to do with the harvest at the end of the summer. Included are easy-to-follow garden plans, lots of helpful tips, expert advice and useful figures.

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

Encuentre una fuente magica en su jardin. Este es un libro sobre magia tan antigua como el conocimiento sobre las plantas. Aprenda a preparar amuletos y encantamientos, bolsas con hierbas magicas, inciensos y aceites aromaticos, infusiones y unguentos. Las hierbas son faciles de conseguir en las tiendas, el campo o en su propio jardin. Sus aplicaciones son infinitas: para ayudar a la vision psiquica, obtener proteccion, despertar la pasion y para mantener la salud y la felicidad. Puntos de venta -Contiene informacion sobre 118 hierbas principales, reglas astrologicas y planetarias, nivel de vibracion, nombre comun y cientifico, polvos magicos y usos especiales -Escrito por el autor de La casa magica; Enciclopedia de cristales, gemas y metales magicos; Enciclopedia de las hierbas magicas; Inciensos, aceites e infusiones; Poderes terrenales; Que es la wicca?; Suenos divinos; y La verdad sobre la brujeria. - Find potent magic in your own backyard. This is a book about magic as old as our knowledge of plants, an art anyone can practice and enjoy. It is the magic of amulets and charms; sachets and herbal pillows; incenses; and scented oils, infusions, and anointments. The herbs are easy to find in stores, the wild, or in your own garden. Their uses are endless: as aids to psychic vision, for protection, and for arousing passion and maintaining health and happiness. Selling Features -Contains an encyclopedia of 118 major herbs, with astrological and planetary rulership, vibrational level, folk and technical names, magical powers, and special uses-Written by the author of La casa magica; Enciclopedia de cristales, gemas y metales magicos; Enciclopedia de las hierbas magicas; Inciensos, aceites e infusiones; Poderes terrenales; Que es la wicca?; Suenos divinos; and La verdad sobre la brujeria